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Title: Light Saber pool fight...Part Deux
Post by: LePaul on January 22, 2003, 11:15:05 PM

Ok, I redid the one with Abunabi and friends jousting the pool sticks to the sound effects of Star Wars.  The middle part, I re did with Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects....I added about 6 seconds worth of a red light saber in place of Abunabi's pool stick.  It toom me a little over 2 hours, with a good chunk of that time my 1.7ghz machine churning the data (all hard drive access, and I have a fast drive).

I plan on re doing the entire flick with light sabers....but tonight I just wanted to see if I could get the glowing and blurs done well.

Here is the movie...1.3mb

http://216.220.227.135/fun-abu.wmv

Whatcha think? hehe......

Title: Light Saber pool fight...Part Deux
Post by: gofaster on January 23, 2003, 08:13:27 AM

Better!  That's still the funniest .mv I've seen so far.  Now finish it!

Title: Light Saber pool fight...Part Deux
Post by: LePaul on January 23, 2003, 09:15:37 AM

Oh I will...I've learned a few lessons with the "light sabers" I'll apply if I make another film like this...

1)  Us better props.  Those sticks, overzoomed and frame by frame, are hard to find as they swing them near the pool tables.  Next time, different colored sticks/props with unique colors so I can tell which "sword" is on top.

2)  Second hard drive.  This 37 secon project has grown from a 3.9mb *huge-all-the-details* AVI to a 8.09gb Photoshop Filmstrip file.  Its an amazing process (theforce.net has some excellent tutorials)...the layering and effect making.  But its eating up drive space fast.  And the Adobe products do some interesting virtual memory stuff.  I have a 1.7ghz machine with 512mb of ram and and an ATA133 hard drive/controller.  But man, these programs are hugely hard drive intensive.  Maybe its time to slap the SCSI controller and SCSI drives in my machine!

Title: Light Saber pool fight...Part Deux
Post by: Chaos68 on January 23, 2003, 11:07:50 AM

couldnt watch it in MediaPlayer... it was too laggy.

Title: Light Saber pool fight...Part Deux
Post by: Ping on January 23, 2003, 11:09:49 AM

What little bit you did looked good

Title: Light Saber pool fight...Part Deux
Post by: LePaul on January 23, 2003, 11:43:33 AM

Thanks....laggy?  Are you dialup?

I optimized it for 56k downloads

Title: Light Saber pool fight...Part Deux
Post by: BGBMAW on January 23, 2003, 03:26:41 PM

is that abunabi from the MAW??

BD5?

xoxo

BiGB

Title: Light Saber pool fight...Part Deux
Post by: Chaos68 on January 23, 2003, 06:45:10 PM

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Originally posted by LePaul
Thanks....laggy?  Are you dialup?

I optimized it for 56k downloads

no im cable, it might just be at my end. If others can view it then yes its just me.

It did look funny from the stills i saw!