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Title: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: LCADolby on November 14, 2011, 05:07:34 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53wBiPhEWTU

Just a short Film I made in a few hours.

Hope you enjoy  :)
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: LCADolby on November 14, 2011, 05:08:27 PM
Just realised Wrong forum... Sorry Skuzzy, Can you move it to Films and Screenshots Thank you  :salute
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: LCADolby on November 17, 2011, 09:19:44 AM
158 views of this topic and not one critic!?  :huh
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: DrBone1 on November 17, 2011, 09:29:01 AM
Great film like always Dolby.  :rock  :salute
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: LCADolby on November 19, 2011, 01:00:31 AM
Great film like always Dolby.  :rock  :salute
:D :x :banana:
 :salute Bone
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: Debrody on November 19, 2011, 04:00:53 AM
Ouch, i hurted your feelings that bad?
<-- fail
I apologize.
Still, dont take much consequences about beating a jug. Beat me, then you gonna be "that" good.   ;)
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: LCADolby on November 19, 2011, 08:37:41 AM
Wow, you have a high opinion of yourself, I'm not offended or hurt by such an obvious truth.
Deb, I have placed a quote I like on every film I've done so far.
If I didn't like it, or was 'hurt' by it, I wouldn't be putting it on my Film.
It was a choise between zack's "The Few shave all over" or yourself, and I had zack on last months.
 ;)
 
I saw an AHFilm of Midway shooting you down 3 times in a row, I don't ever want to be 'that' good.

 :P
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: Debrody on November 19, 2011, 09:04:42 AM
Just kinda ironic... jug or not, you removed him from your six rapidly then that quote...  haha, i had to laugh on myself  ;)
 :salute
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: DrBone1 on November 19, 2011, 09:11:53 AM
 :rofl Dolby no you didnt!
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: Krusty on November 19, 2011, 05:48:50 PM
It's not bad overall, but from an aesthetic point of view I don't think you need 30 seconds of slow scrolling super-detailed credits [okay, not really, but you get my point] for a simple 3 minute 1-on-1 video clip.


Just sayin'...


Other than that, a nice youtube addition.
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: mthrockmor on November 20, 2011, 10:27:21 PM
Outstanding!!

Boo
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: EskimoJoe on November 20, 2011, 10:55:41 PM
It's not bad overall, but from an aesthetic point of view I don't think you need 30 seconds of slow scrolling super-detailed credits [okay, not really, but you get my point] for a simple 3 minute 1-on-1 video clip.


Just sayin'...


Other than that, a nice youtube addition.

I think it was perfectly timed.
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: Krusty on November 21, 2011, 01:00:22 AM
I meant to suggest that such a slow credit roll might be better suited to a longer production? Like one of those 10 or 15 minute videos. For a 3-minute clip (nice as it is) it doesn't quite fit.


Again, more of an aesthetic comment, and doesn't detract from the action shots in any way.
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: LCADolby on November 23, 2011, 12:46:54 PM
It's a fair point Krusty, but I do each of my vids in pretty much a very similar way.
I'm pretty happy with my opening and ending style. Having such a style may help my AH films become an auteurship  :D ;)
It gets across everything I need to, and 25 seconds or so isn't going to cause outrage that the viewers were sat reading more than watching :P
I tried a faster scrolling credit ending on Gustav Gets, perhaps you could critique that video and give me your feedback on that. :)
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: BoilerDown on November 26, 2011, 10:23:34 PM
Around 0:23 there are a few times one of the aircraft makes a close pass in front of the camera and there is a double-image of the aircraft.  In Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 I find that this happens to me when I don't turn off interpolated frames.  I find the interpolated frames feature to be useless, I don't even leave it on "smart" mode, just turn it off entirely.  And then the ghosted images go away. 

Of course if that was a special effect you intended, just ignore this post :) .
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: LCADolby on November 27, 2011, 12:29:24 PM
Definately unintended, but I haven't been able to find anywhere in the preferences or advanced options of my version to stop it from doing that.
It only seems to happen so noticably on AH films though.  :bhead
Title: Re: Aces High - The Gustav Waltz
Post by: BoilerDown on December 10, 2011, 03:33:11 PM
Definately unintended, but I haven't been able to find anywhere in the preferences or advanced options of my version to stop it from doing that.
It only seems to happen so noticably on AH films though.  :bhead

It turns out my description from memory was rather poor.  Though I'm using Vegas Movie Studio 9 so it may have changed in the newer versions.

Anyways, the way to fix it for me is to do the following:

Click in one of the video portions of one of the Fraps files in Vegas.  Right click in the video portion of the Fraps file, then select Properties.  There are three related options of which only one can be picked: "Smart Resample", "Force Resample", and "Disable Resample".  By default it is set to "Smart Resample".  Change this to "Disable Resample". 

You must do this for every video file you put in your project.  I've been unable to find a Vegas setting to set "Disable Resample" to be the default setting.  If I remember to do that, I don't get the double-images.  I think this feature is intended for home videos, its not appropriate for video game videos.


Also lately I've been having better results by using Vegas to encode to Uncompressed video and audio (AVI file).  Then using another program to do the final encoding.  I've tried a few, so far HandBrake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HandBrake) seems to be the best.  Its fast, easy to use, free, and its multi-threaded to get the most out of my CPU cores, and the resulting H.264 MP4 files (YouTube doesn't like .mkv, so stick to the MP4 container with the H.264 codec) look amazing for their size, much better than the WMV9 files I'd been making in Vegas.  The only thing it doesn't do right is scaling up or down, so I encode in Vegas to the final size and FPS I want as an uncompressed AVI file (it'll be huge, many Gigabytes), then use HandBrake to transcode it down to something I'm willing to share or upload.