The Trailer
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05-11-2011, 01:19 AM,
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To get production quality, you'll want to edit in uncompressed and transfer in a lossless format. For our purposes however, we needn't be that stingy with minor quality losses.
We should look into using either YULS or MSU if we end up needing to move footage. |
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05-11-2011, 04:44 PM,
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Given that news, it basically renders VAST, VAST amounts of the footage I have been taking useless. I don't think I'm in a position to take all of that footage again. I just have too much to do, both in RL and with managing BM. I can't imagine the quality being poor, however, as I'm working with .avi files that come to about 300Mb for 20 seconds of footage. Is there not a format I can switch to that would be workable?
Basically, I'm not doing any more 'grunt' work around here whilst others do the fun stuff as that is the burden you bear as the leader almost every single time. That's not me being angry, just wise as to how things always turn out. I'm no one's bitch. =) @ RCN - Did you say you were planning on using Adobe Premiere for the editing? If that is the case then I can turn the whole thing over to you and simply give you a basic outline of an idea for how I want things and what footage we'll need. I can handle the writing and performance of the voiceover which I can add into the mix (I can get and learn Premiere myself, you see) but you'll need to edit around this and any music that Xae comes up with. Also, I can probably pick up some pieces of footage but not all. The only problem with this is that I know where everything is but I can tell you that over MSN or something. How would you feel about that?
Cunning Linguist (Writer and Voice Actor - Lost Spires, St and many, many more.)
Lizard King - Leader of the Black Marsh mod |
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05-11-2011, 05:59 PM,
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Ouch. Sorry about that. We could use all that footage if we were to drop HD video and go with 480p.
Uncompressed video is rather huge even at 800 x 600 resolution. It doesn't depend on the format, since resizing video involves artificially adding visual information that doesn't exist. The principle is the same as enlarging digital pictures - eventually, they become blurry. I'm with you on that sentiment, IG, you have the patience of a saint on valium already. Last time I checked, my rig recorded 1080p at ~10 FPS and 720p at ~25 FPS, on medium settings, albeit with high texture resolution. This is decent but not ideal. If stealtrecon is able to record at ~30 FPS using 720p and high settings, that's how we should go about it. As for the editing, I use the Adobe creative suite in my line of work. Previously, I've not had the time to edit a trailer but having cleared my schedule, I could do it. Whatever is most practical. If I am to be sound editing this thing, it would help to have the ability to manipulate cuts and such, i.e. having the rough cut with a bit of margin handy. Anyway, talking about this in realtime sounds like a good idea. I have MSN tied to my googlemail e-mail address, which I'm guessing you've got, Ibsen? |
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05-11-2011, 06:21 PM,
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And by no means do I expect you to be the only person doing the tedious and difficult work IG. I'll gladly help with the footage. And its the same deal as Xae for me regarding my recording quality. I generally get between 5-20 fps in 1080p and I haven't tried 780p yet. I live in Washington State which is Pacific Standard Time. I'm generally awake and home between 12:30 PM and 4:00 AM my time. Sometimes I go to bed earlier, but I'm usually a night owl, so I can probably attend some msn group chats no problemo.
My Windows Live email is evanlindsay@live.com, thats what I use for instant messaging. Anyways, I suppose I can begin taking some random footage of areas perhaps just to test 720p and 1080p in different areas. For all I know it may just be Blackrose that gets the horrible fps while recording. I will solve that problem over time though. I'm going to make a separate world for Blackrose piece by piece and present it to you guys for consideration. By the way, I was listening to Xae's songs yesterday and I thought that Swaleheart's Moon would make a good song for the trailer. Its just a suggestion as I am sure you already have plans, but I thought it sounded epic and would work really well for some very exciting scenes. RCN |
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05-11-2011, 06:30 PM,
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Cheers for the feedback, guys. :goodjob:
I figured it would be best to send you my MSN address by PM so I'll do that. Xae, I'm not entirely sure I have your MSN address so it's probably best to send it along in your reply. At the moment, I'm considering how I'm going to word this thing. I have my mainquest outline in front of me now so it's a case of giving it some serious thought. @ RCN - I think Xae will probably have designs of his own on the music score. His recent tune, Filthwit, was absolutely gorgeous! Nevertheless, Xae, it may help to pick one out as the ideal choice (unless you wanted to compose a completely new one) and it should help to give RCN a guideline.
Cunning Linguist (Writer and Voice Actor - Lost Spires, St and many, many more.)
Lizard King - Leader of the Black Marsh mod |
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05-11-2011, 06:59 PM,
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Xae and I ran some test on my computer for quality. I chose blackrose to be the area of testing. When the computer was taxed the most with rendering blackrose I got a minimum of 13 fps in ultra high in graphics (720p) compared to 10 fps in medium graphics. (1080p) I generally had an average of 17 fps in blackrose, which is still good enough to record the blackrose area in the future. Like I said though, I will try to optimize blackrose by creating its own worldspace. That way there should be less for the computer to render.
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05-11-2011, 07:35 PM,
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Good good. I've got a first draft of the script done. I'd like to run it by the core though.
Cunning Linguist (Writer and Voice Actor - Lost Spires, St and many, many more.)
Lizard King - Leader of the Black Marsh mod |
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05-12-2011, 01:04 AM,
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I'm gonna look into some more ways to improve my frame rate while recording. I'm really close to being able to record in 1080p with frame rates over 25.
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05-12-2011, 06:25 PM,
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Good stuff. I guess it would help to get all the technical issues sorted first. Btw, Xae and I discussed a little about what to do with the script last night so it's in the pipeline.
Cunning Linguist (Writer and Voice Actor - Lost Spires, St and many, many more.)
Lizard King - Leader of the Black Marsh mod |
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05-30-2011, 12:06 PM,
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A few more suggestions:
Cunning Linguist (Writer and Voice Actor - Lost Spires, St and many, many more.)
Lizard King - Leader of the Black Marsh mod |
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