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Love it!
Very dramatic, and sad.
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Love it!
Very dramatic, and sad.
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Understatement. 
wow that was some amazing video editing. How did you pull that off 
. Oh and glad to see the villains finally get the upper hand.
Very Jealous of your editing skillz
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Wow, that's some impressive demo editing. Well-done machinima is always cool to see.
Thanks for the link!
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Beautiful.
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That was simply amazing! Had a very epic feel to it, and sucked me in. Well done!
*aplause*
Gee willikers, that's amazing. Will you guys share the secret?
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Very Nice! I want more!
Hmm... I'm going to try to go a bit more in depth than most >.>
1) The camera work was fan-freaking-tastic; and the story didn't seem bad either. The entire video was rock-solid and then some until the end -
2) I didn't like the Statesman fight at all.
Now let me explain that:
States, for all his sound and fury... kills no one. He's one of the most powerful people in the entirety of the CoX universe and he can't take out a single villain during what is essentially his last stand?
I'm not opposed to him losing; but States gets made out to be a total chump far too often, and it does a disservice to the entire video to have a guy hurling lightning and giant rocks... and being completely inneffective in doing so.
Knocking people around is great; but if no one stays down, he still doesn't appear to be the Statesman we've heard about. (Remember, this guy flew *through* Rikti Battleships and hurled them around the city).
What I'm suggesting is that perhaps you get extras - maybe a few, maybe many, but just player villains who don't mind getting pounded by Statesman - the result is States taking out a good number of people; and then finally the last group of villains defeating him. Its just more believable that way.
I'm not trashing the video by any stretch - its really good, that's just an honest critique on my part >.>
Oh; and one other thing - multiple debuffs on States made the fight look 'odd'; I mean, it wasn't as dramatic because it looked like a 'real' CoX fight, and not an awesome staged one. Essentially, real CoX fights as we all know, *rapidly* get covered in power effects of a billion types and they lose some level of drama because you're seeing green, purple, blue, black, and any other color you can think of every which way - instead of the careful and measured application of a comic panel.
Thus - one debuff would have been excellent; it would make sense and fit well with the rest of the thing; since its a staged fight, I wouldn't think you'd need the debuffs to win so to speak either >.>
Ok so anyways; I felt I needed to say that; its a REALLY good video mind you, I just wanted to point out a couple things that really bugged me in an otherwise excellent piece.
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Outstanding camera work. Coffys music was excellent. Very good demo editing. Dramatic. I enjoyed it more than a little. Go make another. 
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If this is serious, I'm going to laugh...
*watches video*
*not laughing*
I really enjoyed that video as well. Very good editing in there and very pleasant to watch. I do, however, agree with squirrel that the Statesman fight was lackluster. I found it hard to believe when the first few attacks by the middle villain didn't prompt him to charge and pummel someone, anyone. It was a great video, but would have been more believable if Statesman had taken down some villains before he was finally defeated.
I really liked it though and look forward to any others you produce.
Wow, it downloads ten times faster than I8's patch. 
That camera work is incredible!! Spiraling in AND up at the same time! And it fits with the music exactly, too. Somewhere out there, there's another demo edit program.....
From a production stand point, it's sheer beauty. Absolutely wonderful camera movement and the editing was very nice.
But I'm going to have to agree with Infinite and the squirrel. The Statesman fight was... lacking. All that he did was be a punching bag and make a little thunder to no effect. It didn't come off that he was a credible threat to the villains. He wasn't dangerous, wasn't what we're kinda expecting the "legendary" Statesman to be.
That said, I'd still love to see any other vids you made further on down the line.
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Thanks a lot for those kind words, everyone 
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Somewhere out there, there's another demo edit program.....
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Not that I am aware of
I use mainly Balshor's CoH Demo Editor and the scuzzbopper's database, as well as some guides found on this board (including yours, Zloth). I work with Notepad to develop animations and such in one text file, and camera work in another text file. I then use Balshor's editor to merge and synchronise the two files.
Anyway, I'm on the 14-days free trial here (I'm a former Freedom player, but I play on EU servers now), so if you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer it.
Ps : I agree that the Statesman battle could have been 10 times better in terms of action. Actually, this is the only part of the video where I used a pre-recorded demo file, of a real battle with Statesman inside the Founder Fall's Mayhem mission.
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So how did you do the bit where the gals fade in to City Hall? Is that some video overlay thing?
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Yep, I don't know if Balshor is still around, but he made one hell of a great tool. Sadly, I can't use your demo editor so I can't compare. (Your editor doesn't seems to like EU demo files and prefer to crash right away 
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So how did you do the bit where the gals fade in to City Hall? Is that some video overlay thing?
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Nothing that complex. As you may have guessed, my camera movement are just mathematical equations, so I can replay them identically, while at the same time changing the background or the scene. This opens a lot of opportunities for specials effects.
In this case, it's relatively simple : I shoot the city hall with no-one inside, then I shoot again with the same camera movement but with the girls walking in.
Then I load the two sequences in Windows Movie Maker (for example), and create a simple fade in-fade out transition between them. Finally, I have to time precisely the fade-in fade-out, to perfectly "superimpose" the camera movement in the two sequences, and pouf! my all-girls villain group appears to seduce our hero to his doom.
EU Demos are different? That's interesting. Are there any EU demos posted anywhere that I can download? Maybe I can fix it up. (Or at least exit nice instead of crashing.)
This is an incredible video! Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to save from that link. I did a little searching and found a pretty high-res version here:
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Very nice! An incredible amount of work there.
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Wow, no kidding.
That video was excellent, and very well edited together. The camera movement was remarkably flui, especially when moving from one fight scene to another and spinning through the city.
The action was well scripted (the parts that were scripted, anyway) and the music fit perfectly with all of it. I'd love to see more movies like this.
Hello,
If you are interested, you can find below the CoX video winner of "Public Prize" at the last French Machinima Festival. It's called "Dies Irae" and is entirely scripted "by hand" using some pre-recorded demo files and custom camera movements.
http://www.coxigrue.fr/warehouse/Dies_Irae.wmv
Right-Click + Save as
(You have to download the video to your hard drive first before playing it.)
Hope you like this one
Edited : sorry for the absence of the link in the first place