General Forums => Films and Screenshots => Topic started by: Animl-AW on March 07, 2025, 11:12:05 AM
Title: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Animl-AW on March 07, 2025, 11:12:05 AM
THIS JUST A 48 HR DRAFT AND IS UNLISTED
Opening 15 secs IS debatable and not really sold.
3:11, longer than last 2-3
For whatever reason I made a decision to not narrate through the whole vid. There is plenty of room if players think something needs to be added to narration.
ALSO, I bought a new 32" HD monitor and instantly noticed my vids are just not for large screens as far as graphic perfection. Until recently they were in 1080 res, this one is 2560, but 1080 res.
After this vid my vids will be in a higher resolution since I'm my screen captures of FV will be higher res.
Any input is welcomed, good or bad.
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: JimmyD3 on March 07, 2025, 11:31:23 AM
I like it. Only negative I saw was the video seemed a little on the dark side for me. Maybe my eyes. :salute
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Animl-AW on March 07, 2025, 11:50:57 AM
I like it. Only negative I saw was the video seemed a little on the dark side for me. Maybe my eyes. :salute
It's not your eyes. I had a problem with dark on the desktop editing, then light when finished MP4. I'll brighten it up. I was hoping someone noticed something like that. thanks
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: The Fugitive on March 07, 2025, 11:53:12 AM
Ya, looks good to me. You have some really nice shots in there. <S>
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: LCADolby on March 07, 2025, 12:14:58 PM
The head on collisions could be replaced with better scenes/camera placement and the B26's horrendous nose pitches skipped. Other than those top tier :old:
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Animl-AW on March 07, 2025, 12:15:50 PM
The head on collisions could be replaced with better scenes/camera placement and the B26's horrendous nose pitches skipped. Other than those top tier :old:
I question that myself. I wanted that burst in there, but you're prolly right. I have 9 different angles of that scene. The shot itself may not be important enough. After you mentioned it, ya, those B-26 engines from the rear really do grab a bit too much.
Keep the comments/ideas coming and let it evolve.
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Animl-AW on March 07, 2025, 01:26:23 PM
Just FYI, I changed brightness from .50 to .100 Contrast from .75 to .120 Problem WAS, I had a video card doing one thing in editing, and the restrained monitor doing another in captures, topped with going from AVI to MP3 seemed to have had it's own change. So that info was vital. Currently I'm 2560 using HDR Dynamic across the board, you won't see that in this video on a large screen.
B-26 scenes audio an even cut of 6db. Mere slight ambiance.
I'll change the angle of the 51/F4U rear collision, and change out the 38/F6 collision to a different interior kill shot...when I find it.
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: popeye on March 07, 2025, 02:53:59 PM
A shot of the M4A3 firing its rockets might be cool.
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Animl-AW on March 07, 2025, 04:13:23 PM
A shot of the M4A3 firing its rockets might be cool.
I tried to find it. Not sure if its in that time span of film. I'll try to find it.
Edit: Frankly, after seeing the graphics I have now, and what I can capture, I'd like to delete all those other vids, but won't. Can only imagine what VR looks like.
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Eagler on March 07, 2025, 05:57:42 PM
Nice Animl-AW !
I would redo the pt boat scene making it shorter and back in the video, not at the front...it doesn't impress imo..no wake, strange torpedo looking action..maybe a quick shot of one dropping one torpedo and a close up as it hits a cv
The bomber pilots should be removed too imo .. goofy looking :old:
Great stuff really..it could be used as a commercial imo
Thanks for trying to promote our game
Eagler
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Kermit de frog on March 07, 2025, 06:19:41 PM
Well done as always. Makes me want to fly right now!
Also, yeah, the PT scene could use some love from the sound editing dept. :rock
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Animl-AW on March 07, 2025, 10:59:38 PM
Meh!
I've got a lot of these shots saved using "Set up camera shots" (.ahs files). I'm going to re-do as many as possible, because the HDR color and higher res is that much better to be worth it. It will be much cleaner, me thinks. I want it clean even on big screen. The past doesn't cut it.
SO it's a good thing I posted draft and know what to 86. It also might get me under 3 min. PT, B-26 pilots are gone.
If anyone has a film of AC launching a torp in the MA that could be handy. I don't want anything staged.
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Eagler on March 08, 2025, 06:55:33 AM
Why not staged?
Short clips, who could tell and you have what you are looking for..
Thanks again for your time and effort!
Eagler
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Baloo on March 08, 2025, 06:59:53 AM
Here's my $15, love it! :cheers: :salute
Great video, great propaganda :grin:
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Animl-AW on March 08, 2025, 07:27:15 AM
Let me know of any annoyances, graphics, audio, editing.
very nice and looks so much better in hd... it defaulted to 360p fuzziness. I changed it to 1440p and it looked so much crisper. I think this may turn away people who don't get to see it at higher resoution.
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Animl-AW on March 27, 2025, 09:39:02 PM
very nice and looks so much better in hd... it defaulted to 360p fuzziness. I changed it to 1440p and it looked so much crisper. I think this may turn away people who don't get to see it at higher resoution.
How do I change that? It shows HD version. Ya it psssed me off seeing it like that.
I changed to 1440 and the share link changed
Which fixes the sharing thing
Looked into it,... not figured it all out yet, but YT defaults to start at lower res depending on connection speed, then throttles up if the connection speed increases. I set my page to AV1 only but I dunno if that effects others or not.
Edit: Going to MP4 blows. I have to tweak the audio in places so,.. it will be edited one more time, if anyone seeing anything I don't
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Animl-AW on March 27, 2025, 10:06:34 PM
Difference in "Share" button inks Once you change resolution on the video page and then copy the "Share" button link you'll get a different address to the quality you selected, now you're sharing at a forced 1440
(Don't use address bar link to share/embed video here, for whatever reason it usually doesn't show the video, always use Share button link)
Forced 1440 Share link https://youtu.be/apZ8o4YqwVE?feature=shared
Auto set link, usually starts low. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apZ8o4YqwVE
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: icepac on March 28, 2025, 09:17:43 AM
Do you feel like this guy yet?
Title: Re: AH3 Open Melee Arena DRAFT
Post by: Animl-AW on March 28, 2025, 10:18:59 AM
Kinda. Like FV or Vegas crashing after just did a slew of work and ya have to do it again for the 4th, then you don’t remember everything you did and then find it when you THINK you’re done. I learned the hard way to hit save every cpl minutes.
Or ya go through 10 films looking for a good shot, take it, put it in a slot, then while looking for another you find a better one, which one has to be pulled. Is it really a better shot? I have better scenes but they don’t fit.
By the time I finish, after viewing/listening 50 times I don’t like it all that much. Or you finish and “damn, that tune makes me crazy now”.
Kinda like when I was programming, ya start falling asleep with it roaming your head. Sooner or later ya need outside eyes before wrapping it up.
Best approach I found is, don’t rush, just do it as s crossword puzzle ya leave on the table. Ta walk by, put a few pieces in place, go do something else, rinse and repeat. Week or two later its finished. If you do something like this style don’t work on it non-stop, you’ll rush it.
Many times ya get lucky and a random shot happens to fit perfectly, by accident.
I’m fine, I just hope the twi,…twi,… twitch in my neck goes away.
This version, I must bumped the music volume without realizing before compiling, making the music 3db too loud.
Now I don’t care fir the chutes at the end, but it completes the visual. <shrug>