====New Movie - Gunfighters by Tango ===

[dtango]

Spiffing - not sure what you mean by the "shiney effect".  I'm guessing you mean the "glow" at the beginning of the movie.  If so, that was the glow filter in Vegas.

Tango, XO
412th FS Braunco Mustangs

[MaddMax]

Tango,

I was absolutely blown away by your movie "Gunfighters"!  It was impressive in many ways: Story line, AH films used, Camera Angles, Editing, and Music Selection, just to name a few.  You deserve recognition for your work, if not some type of Oscar.

Your film easily beats out the HTC films they use for advertising.  They should hire you to do their next one.  Please keep up the good work.  I'm sure you can envision many other scenarios using other aircraft.

My hat is off to you Sir,
MadMax

[Kongkyuk]

HOLY CR*P!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That was one of the best if not thee best I've watched:aok
The High Res download rules, what great moves and fights:cool:

[Gianlupo]

AWESOME movie, Tango, I'm speechless! And great music, too (Long live Ennio! ) I kept seeing it and thinking "it can't be Aces High.... it can't be the game I play...."; you did a really great job with pannings, keep up the good work!

[jon]

SWEEEEEET!!!!!

[Bogie603rd]

Wow, an amazing video! Great music, angles, graphics, and good job on the "glow/diffuse"!

[texastc316]

the most baddest assest movie E V E R !!!!!  

[VVV]

WOO HOO!!! Excellent movie!!! Good job guys <>

[MacGlide]

Thats terrific stuff.  

[Krusty]

I only just recently DLed this and watched it.

I must say, "wow!"

I love the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, so maybe I'm biased, but the music just set the perfect tone for this film.

What I was most most MOST impressed with (did I mention I'm very impressed with this? No? Oh well keep reading you'll find out!) was the camera angles.

How did you pull that off? Running in god mode would have been nearly impossible to keep pace with the target like that. What sets this apart is that the target isn't in the center of the screen throughout the entire thing (which AH limits most folks to doing). It gave it a MUCH more fluid feel, and felt more like you were a witness, rather than just you were the target of the camera.

[parin]

what editor did you use? That was awsome!

[dtango]

Thanks for all the feedback!  My only hope is that folks enjoy the movie as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

Krusty - the camera angles were acheived from a combination of AH film viewer camera positions and 2D camera panning and cropping in Sony Vegas, the video editor I used.  Glad you felt it was effective in drawing you into the action !

For the 2D panning & cropping - if you think of the raw video as the canvas (with the target plane centered in the view for instance), basically I created a frame that's smaller than a canvas which acts like my movie camera lense which then I move around to cover different parts of the canvas in order to achieve a particular view.

parin - as mentioned above I used Sony Vegas.  You don't necessarily need Vegas to achieve the final product like the one I produced - there are some free-ware tools that can be used that have the features including the 2D pan & zoom (e.g. combination of MS MM and VirtualDub etc).  It's more a function of finding out what video editing features are available and experimenting with them vs. the particular editor itself.

Tango, XO
412th FS Braunco Mustangs

[Krusty]

I was thinking to myself "that's the only way it could have been done" but the results looked far better than I'd imagine possible!

[parin]

oh ok. Thanks for the editing info.

[uberhun]

Great Flick!:aok