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Title: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 14, 2007, 03:15:36 pm
Some of you might remember that disaster of a video I made about Freespace. Well, I've gone and remade it. Hopefully to you it's better. (and not ****ty. :P)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Agz8NGVak

Hi-Res Version (52 MB): http://www.cssavarice.com/files/FSMusicVideoFinal.wmv
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Ashrak on January 14, 2007, 03:37:46 pm
VERYU NICE.... MESA LIKE!!!!


 :eek2:
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 14, 2007, 04:37:25 pm
I wasn't expecting THAT kind of reaction. :eek:

And before anyone complains, no, there is no ingame footage, I don't have the hardware to do any proper video capturing with the oh so great FRAPS.
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Harbinger of DOOM on January 14, 2007, 04:55:57 pm
Pretty Nice, better than most.
Keep up the good work!
(I'm not going to criticize, as I know zilch about making videos sooo.....)
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 14, 2007, 05:53:28 pm
do it anyway. :P
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Unknown Target on January 14, 2007, 10:34:23 pm
Very nice :) What was most impressive was the matching of the videos to the music. At some points it sort of lost touch, but then got right back on track. Very well done :)
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Thor on January 15, 2007, 07:55:48 pm
considering you where only working with the cut scenes, you did a great job of keeping the imagery working with the music.  I didn't really like the song personally, but it did suit it lyrically.  good editing though, thats the hardest part, so kudos there!
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 15, 2007, 08:07:54 pm
Yay, people are starting to notice me! :D

Who else but me thought the missile part was a nice touch?
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Turey on January 15, 2007, 10:02:46 pm
I never noticed how good the cutscenes look shrunk. If we could get the pre-rendered versions of those movies and re-render them at max quality.... Totally awesome.  :yes:

couple things I don't remember:
1.  That shivan ship slamming into the Orion - is that Bastion.mve?
2. The Deimos + Aeolus (?) vs. shivan fight, right before the supernove - where's that from? Bastion.mve again?
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 15, 2007, 10:49:55 pm
I never noticed how good the cutscenes look shrunk. If we could get the pre-rendered versions of those movies and re-render them at max quality.... Totally awesome.  :yes:

couple things I don't remember:
1.  That shivan ship slamming into the Orion - is that Bastion.mve?
2. The Deimos + Aeolus (?) vs. shivan fight, right before the supernove - where's that from? Bastion.mve again?

1. Bastion
2. endpart1
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Goober5000 on January 16, 2007, 06:47:26 pm
And before anyone complains, no, there is no ingame footage, I don't have the hardware to do any proper video capturing with the oh so great FRAPS.
How about GameCam?

Who else but me thought the missile part was a nice touch?
If you mean the part where you interspersed footage from the FS2 manticore chase with footage of Lt. Ash, I did. :):yes:
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 16, 2007, 07:30:14 pm
Errr, until GameCam works in OpenGL, no. :D

And not just that, also the part where the Manticore fired its missile. :D
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Goober5000 on January 17, 2007, 11:44:53 pm
Errr, until GameCam works in OpenGL, no. :D
Rats.  I had thought it was just me.

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And not just that, also the part where the Manticore fired its missile. :D
Which part was that?
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 17, 2007, 11:45:43 pm
The Manticore fires its missile and hits the Hercules in its right engine?
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Goober5000 on January 17, 2007, 11:58:38 pm
And what about it was a nice touch?
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 17, 2007, 11:59:13 pm
The way I used it with the music? :P
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Thor on January 18, 2007, 12:08:58 am

Who else but me thought the missile part was a nice touch?

i did
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Mefustae on January 18, 2007, 03:28:36 am
Personally, I quite liked the editing in syncing up the marines firing their guns with the appropriate part of the song to illustrate that. The editing in general was quite nice, actually. :yes:
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 19, 2007, 04:06:17 pm
Someone tell me what the rating shows for the video. Ever since Google took over Youtube things have started getting crazy with the html codes'n ****. My "my videos" view shows the rating to be 2 1/2 stars, in 3 votes, while the actual video page shows 5 stars for 3 votes. What do y'all see?
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Tyrian on January 21, 2007, 06:19:16 pm
It says:

6 ratings

4 stars

Awesome work!  I think I've watched this about 3 times...
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 21, 2007, 06:50:50 pm
I'll be uploading the high quality video to a webhost for download. It'll be up by 5:10 PM PST.

http://www.cssavarice.com/files/FSMusicVideoFinal.wmv

It's 52 MB, too, so 56kers beware.
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Tyrian on January 21, 2007, 07:28:08 pm
I downloaded this but it was only 48.7 MB.  I played it, and it says the length is 3:57, but at 3:20, it just cuts out.  It seems that what you posted is missing the last 37 seconds.  Seven seconds of that is the end of the Bastion's self-destruct sequence, and the other 30 seconds is the credits.  BTW, I'm playing it in WinAmp.

Other than that, the hi-res version looks really, really good. 

Tyrian & Tyrian gives it: :yes2: :yes:
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 21, 2007, 08:41:36 pm
really? try downloading it again.

i just downloaded it, it works fine for me.
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Tyrian on January 22, 2007, 06:38:06 pm
Works for me now, too.  Looks like I just got a bad download.  Very awesome!
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Herra Tohtori on January 22, 2007, 07:43:28 pm
Cool, although I had to manually set the aspect ratio to 16:9... meh, a minor fault (if any). :yes:
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 22, 2007, 08:02:19 pm
why do you want a widescreen ratio? isn't the default ratio good enough? :P
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Herra Tohtori on January 22, 2007, 08:14:33 pm
Well, I prefer to watch videos (and TV, too) in their native aspect ratio. I don't like watching widescreen video compressed into 4:3 ratio (even though that option is better than having almost half of the image cropped away), and when I watch 4:3 broadcast on widescreen telly, I always switch it to normal aspect ratio of the show.

AS to "good enough", well, it's a matter of two mouse clicks to force the video to be shown with correct aspect ratio in VLC so it doesn't really bother me. It just felt odd, that's all. :cool:
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Gregster2k on January 29, 2007, 12:41:56 am
Yeah, i was watching it in VLC and noticed the planet in the FS2 intro bit (with the Vasudan fighters flying towards it) was horribly stretched upward. Had to fool with VLC a bit =b
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on January 29, 2007, 04:20:57 pm
wow. 16:9 really DOES look better over 4:3. But I'm so used to watching this video in native 4:3 all of the humans I see look fat. :D
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Gregster2k on February 03, 2007, 04:18:59 am
:wtf: Where are some of you getting 16:9 from? 16:9 doesn't do anything to that planet in VLC. The only thing that brings it even anything near round is 221:100. :ick: Maybe my VLC is weird?

In fact, after looking at some of the community AVIs and OGGs, I've determined that VLC doesn't support overriding this to Volition's cinematic aspect ratio, which is 2:1 ... as the dimensions of CommandBrief.avi is 640x320. This explains why 221:100 gives near-perfect results on your video, Cobra. All you have to do is rerelease your video with a doubled width and it'll be fine.
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: KappaWing on February 03, 2007, 08:11:27 am
I used Windows Media Player to view the file and there were no distortion problems. IMO, the only reason to use VLC for .wmv files is if theyre corrupted.

As for the video itself... Simply amazing!  ;):yes:

And is your name really Daniel Dickerson? :eek:
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on February 03, 2007, 09:34:04 am
And is your name really Daniel Dickerson? :eek:

Yeah, what about it? :P
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: KappaWing on February 03, 2007, 10:18:41 am
Ah just an odd coincidence... My first name is daniel and my bfs last name is dickerson. :lol:

What program did you use to compile this? Movie maker?
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Cobra on February 03, 2007, 10:24:45 am
Ja, Movie Maker. Wish I could set the aspect ratio though.
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: Gregster2k on February 04, 2007, 02:25:56 am
I used Windows Media Player to view the file ...
And of course that would be the last thing I'd run it in, because I despise Windows Media Player :p
Title: Re: Oshi-- He's done it again!
Post by: KappaWing on February 04, 2007, 08:33:15 am
Well I despise versions 9 and 11, I will only use version 10.  :nod: