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Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Krackers87 on May 01, 2005, 02:23:38 pm
http://hades-combine.com/hosted/fs-l.WMV

the decent video released earlier reminded me of this i made a while back.

Publicity tool, hmm?
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: StratComm on May 01, 2005, 03:26:26 pm
That's pretty good, though the choice of music seems a tad out of place with Freespace it does fit the pace well.  Huge file though, 33 megs.  What campaign is that from?
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: MatthewPapa on May 01, 2005, 03:38:44 pm
Very good.

I can tell you have the difficulty on very easy :)
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Krackers87 on May 02, 2005, 11:59:35 am
3 different missions, one is an X mission, 1 is original campaign and 1 of my own make.
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Cobra on May 02, 2005, 01:24:46 pm
that was pretty cool. ( i speak of when you showed this to me thru YIM)
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Mr_Maniac on May 02, 2005, 02:41:32 pm
Good Video!

But I have two stupid questions:
1. Why 40 FPS? Aren't 25 FPS enough?

2. Why WMV?
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Mr_Maniac on May 02, 2005, 03:24:39 pm
Hehe....
I've just converted the WMV-File to XviD but used the wrong color-Format (yuv, I should've used RGB)...

Well... Red/Orange Warpholes are looking cool!
So are BLUE shivan ships! :)
And blue explosions, of course!
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Krackers87 on May 02, 2005, 05:45:16 pm
because i used windows movie maker

yes, i suck
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on May 02, 2005, 06:55:11 pm
All in all, a good movie. HOWEVER...

In many scenes, the Framerate you had was criminally bad. Is their anything you can do to speed things up, without compromising the SFX?

Also, I noticed you used Vanilla Weapon effects. BAD. I'd advise using Lightspeeds Primary and Secondaries, as well as Firecrack's Beam effects.

One more thing: I don't think the music fit at all, but then again, thats personal preference on my part.
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: StratComm on May 02, 2005, 07:43:48 pm
You can't really complain about the framerate when using FRAPs.  It's impossible to get decent rates when it's saving out an image file every frame.  Though it is possible to get better looking results if you use inverse time compression, by the looks of things that was taken before that was available.
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Mongoose on May 02, 2005, 08:19:11 pm
You definitely have a ways to go to reach the awesomeness that is Rake's D3 video, but that was still pretty cool. :D I do agree that a change of music might be in order.
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Nix on May 03, 2005, 03:24:38 am
When I saw it, it reminded me of Need for speed underground 2.
I didnt mind the music actually.  I thought it was a good thing not to hear the whales in space for once.  Not that I dont like FS2's music, it's nice to see something different.

Looks like this was made with a joystick too.  I have a killer mouse+keyboard combo and still cant rotate as fluid as that.
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: DaBrain on May 03, 2005, 03:31:13 am
That was pretty cool.

Get some new effects and create another one! :)
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Singh on May 03, 2005, 07:12:12 am
The music was utterly cool, that's for sure.

What program did you use to edit the videos though? Especially with all the cutting and pasting in this case O_o
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Mr_Maniac on May 03, 2005, 07:29:47 am
@Singh:
Quote
Originally posted by Krackers87
because i used windows movie maker
;)

Quote
Originally posted by Krackers87
yes, i suck


No you don't ;)
I just asked! :)
Windows Moviemaker is not that bad...
(I don't like it but it's really not that bad)
The only bad thing is, that you only can save in MS-Formats (typically for MS)...
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Krackers87 on May 03, 2005, 03:42:35 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.
All in all, a good movie. HOWEVER...

In many scenes, the Framerate you had was criminally bad. Is their anything you can do to speed things up, without compromising the SFX?

Also, I noticed you used Vanilla Weapon effects. BAD. I'd advise using Lightspeeds Primary and Secondaries, as well as Firecrack's Beam effects.

One more thing: I don't think the music fit at all, but then again, thats personal preference on my part.


I will when i get FS2 to stop crashing
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: karajorma on May 03, 2005, 04:20:40 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Nix
When I saw it, it reminded me of Need for speed underground 2.  


Glad to see it wasn't just me :D
Title: FreeSpace 2 Video
Post by: Ghostavo on May 03, 2005, 05:44:14 pm
*applauds*

Nice capship action...