(NEW) CoH "Boom" Music Video Now Available!

Forum_Police · 07-09-2004 08:31 AM

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Love your work but this is the wrong forum, neh?

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How is it the wrong forum? Is putting a video in the general forum about as messed up as putting a video in the screenshot forum?

Plus this forum gets far more traffic, cant blame me for wanting to get it out to more people.

Forum_Police · 07-09-2004 12:55 PM

Moving this one up for the evening crew.

Spice · 07-09-2004 01:27 PM

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Love your work but this is the wrong forum, neh?

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How is it the wrong forum? Is putting a video in the general forum about as messed up as putting a video in the screenshot forum?
Plus this forum gets far more traffic, cant blame me for wanting to get it out to more people.

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Read the screenshot forum. They specifically ask you to place videos in there. What is more they have a sticky list of videos there if you contact Aura if you think your video is good.

I will blame you for being a big fat attention [censored] though since you asked

Ex_Libris · 07-09-2004 01:29 PM

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Moving this one up for the evening crew.

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When you make another one keep bumping it, i dont want to miss it loved both of them, even though they were basically the same lol

Forum_Police · 07-09-2004 01:34 PM

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Read the screenshot forum. They specifically ask you to place videos in there. What is more they have a sticky list of videos there if you contact Aura if you think your video is good.

I will blame you for being a big fat attention [censored] though since you asked

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Well I did make a thread there about the video, but I really wanted to get my video out to more people. Guess you got me there.

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Moving this one up for the evening crew.

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When you make another one keep bumping it, i dont want to miss it loved both of them, even though they were basically the same lol

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Actually the second version was quite a bit differant. The song remained the same, as long as a few scenes, but I had to complete recapture all the footage, because the old footage had the GUI present. I also found out how to get higher quality compression.

Vegetator · 07-09-2004 01:47 PM

How did you do the smooth rotations ?

Kinrad · 07-09-2004 01:48 PM

Do you have any idea how cool this is? Seriously, phenomenal! 5 stars for you! Great job.

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Vegetator · 07-09-2004 01:58 PM

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Im only 22, I dont get it.

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"Cats" was a broadway play that people went to see over and over
and over again...

It had a very long run, one of the longest.

The person is implying that your video is worth watching
repeatedly.

And to reiterate: How did you do the smooth camera rotations ?

ElTigre · 07-09-2004 02:35 PM

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You should see her play Counter-Strike and Warcraft III.

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Now you're just bragging!

Forum_Police · 07-09-2004 03:05 PM

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How did you do the smooth rotations ?

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One of two ways to rotate the camera.

1. Hold the middle mouse button (or your mouselook button) and use the arrow keys.

2. Patience and a very steady hand using mouselook with the mouse. I cant count how many times I shot each of the "rotating" scenes. Around 10 captures for each scene I would guess. Either my hand would twitch, or my mouse would catch on the mousepad wrong, ect ect.

But if you are patient enough and have a steady hand you can make those rotating shots.

Pyrthas · 07-09-2004 03:28 PM

Regarding rotations, I've never made a video, but I don't use my mouse for anything other than teleporting and opening doors. The relevant commands (for binding or something) are lookup, lookdown, zoomin, zoomout, camrotate (with camrotate on, turnleft and turnright turn the camera around you rather than turning your character). /bind <key> +<command> will work just fine (camrotate is bound to pageup by default, but the other four need to be set up on their own).

Not sure about the arrow keys, but it wouldn't surprise me.

You can set the rate at which you rotate in options.

Forum_Police · 07-09-2004 03:33 PM

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Regarding rotations, I've never made a video, but I don't use my mouse for anything other than teleporting and opening doors. The relevant commands (for binding or something) are lookup, lookdown, zoomin, zoomout, camrotate (with camrotate on, turnleft and turnright turn the camera around you rather than turning your character). /bind <key> +<command> will work just fine (camrotate is bound to pageup by default, but the other four need to be set up on their own).

Not sure about the arrow keys, but it wouldn't surprise me.

You can set the rate at which you rotate in options.

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Whoa, you dont use mouselook at all?

Edit: Just for clarification I meant mouselook in my previous thread, not freelook.

Pyrthas · 07-09-2004 03:40 PM

Nope. I don't like using a mouse. (I don't have any powers in my power trays, either, but that's more for fun.) I use q, e, r, f, -, and + (the last two on the numpad, with r, f, subtract, and add bound to +lookup, +lookdown, +zoomin, and +zoomout) to look around, with the default movement.

Forum_Police · 07-09-2004 04:02 PM

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Nope. I don't like using a mouse. (I don't have any powers in my power trays, either, but that's more for fun.) I use q, e, r, f, -, and + (the last two on the numpad, with r, f, subtract, and add bound to +lookup, +lookdown, +zoomin, and +zoomout) to look around, with the default movement.

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Reminds me of the first time I played a FPS. I would run around with arrowkeys trying to aim and shoot people.

I noticed quickly other people were able to aim instantly and hit me. I was like, "What the hell - how can they get me so quickly?"

Needless to after a few more rounds I asked. I was told about the 'mouselook' option. OMG, I felt so silly trying to play a FPS with only my directional keys.

Spymaster · 07-09-2004 04:09 PM

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How did you do the smooth rotations ?

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One of two ways to rotate the camera.

1. Hold the middle mouse button (or your mouselook button) and use the arrow keys.

2. Patience and a very steady hand using mouselook with the mouse. I cant count how many times I shot each of the "rotating" scenes. Around 10 captures for each scene I would guess. Either my hand would twitch, or my mouse would catch on the mousepad wrong, ect ect.

But if you are patient enough and have a steady hand you can make those rotating shots.

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You might want to consider setting the rotate speed way down in the options, then using the keyboard. This should give a consistent rotation speed without the need for surgeon's hands.

Filmmakers use dollies for their panning shots instead of handheld cameras. Anything you can do to eliminate shakiness will help.

Ex_Libris · 07-09-2004 04:22 PM

god damn man... god damn.. that is insanely cool!! 1000/10 from me!

And did anyone else even look at the names in the credits? Look at the stunt doubles' names... is that true, DJ?

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Heh just read your reply on the 2nd page so nevermind

Forum_Police · 07-09-2004 05:04 PM

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How did you do the smooth rotations ?

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One of two ways to rotate the camera.

1. Hold the middle mouse button (or your mouselook button) and use the arrow keys.

2. Patience and a very steady hand using mouselook with the mouse. I cant count how many times I shot each of the "rotating" scenes. Around 10 captures for each scene I would guess. Either my hand would twitch, or my mouse would catch on the mousepad wrong, ect ect.

But if you are patient enough and have a steady hand you can make those rotating shots.

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You might want to consider setting the rotate speed way down in the options, then using the keyboard. This should give a consistent rotation speed without the need for surgeon's hands.

Filmmakers use dollies for their panning shots instead of handheld cameras. Anything you can do to eliminate shakiness will help.

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Yea this I know now. Thats the downside of being an artist (no matter the venue) you always learn things after the fact.

Like the first version of this video had small portions of the GUI visable, because I did not know you could set a button to turn it off completely.

Now that the second version is done, I realize how I can get super ultra smooth camera rotations. No big deal however, just means my next video will be that much better!

Ghost_Inside · 07-09-2004 05:23 PM

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Just because I can...

...this picture wont help the situation any.

Or how about this or this one?

Mua Ha Ha! Lets see how she feels about popularity after a few days now!

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Not sure if I should congratulate you more on the video or snagging a hot wife who plays CoH

WELL DONE my friend WELL DONE INDEED

now if I could just get my wife off that damn costume creator and actually playing the game life would be good in my home lol.

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I second that motion! How do you do it man?! Your Boom video is truely awesome, but make a video on how to capture one of those beautiful rarities and you're be rich beyond imagination!

Dragonstar · 07-09-2004 06:44 PM

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Just because I can...

...this picture wont help the situation any.

Or how about this or this one?

Mua Ha Ha! Lets see how she feels about popularity after a few days now!

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Not sure if I should congratulate you more on the video or snagging a hot wife who plays CoH

WELL DONE my friend WELL DONE INDEED

now if I could just get my wife off that damn costume creator and actually playing the game life would be good in my home lol.

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I second that motion! How do you do it man?! Your Boom video is truely awesome, but make a video on how to capture one of those beautiful rarities and you're be rich beyond imagination!

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If you mean capture those beautiful rarities (such as his wife) I'm all in agreement. If you mean the video clips well.... ok.
Congratulations to your wife for the great video! (I told you you shouldn't post her picture)

CelticBhoy · 07-09-2004 06:56 PM

BUMP
(because Im at work, can't stream here, and I want to find this again easily when I get home in an hour..)

hehe

CB

Pyrthas · 07-09-2004 08:00 PM

Try making it a favorite (at the bottom of the thread).

Forum_Police · 07-10-2004 07:38 AM

Thank you all who have sent me PMs and messages on AIM, it really feels good to know Ive contributed something worthwhile to the community.

HellscorpX · 07-10-2004 10:00 AM

Kick *** video there! Great work!

Ex_Libris · 07-10-2004 10:08 AM

WOW That was awsome!

Stromgard · 07-12-2004 04:42 AM

I like the "Ultra" version..was a little saddened by some of the loss of scenes from is older version..but overall a great job.

Now I gotta go and try my hand at this crazyness...

btw I know it would take some taking to do..but you think you can write up a guide of some sorts..maybe get with Gladius as to help lessen the learning curve a bit for us..that imho would be a greater tribute to the community. I ask cuz obviously you did your homework (we all should honestly), but it also sounds like you had help and tips. Me, I use search and see DL this and that but hell if I know what they do and how to use them lol. Oh well just a thought. Great job on the video!

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