Hey Wulf thanks man
The song I used was not the original song
that I had in mind but something completely different. Think
Gregorian Chant form one of the Masters of Chant albums and the theme was
gonna be completely different. But when i heard that Man O War was gonna
be in Orlando I wanted to check the date to see if I'd be able to make it
down there to go seem em at the House of Blues. Unfortunately for me
that fell on a night that I needed to be at work so That went out the
window but I was kinda surprised to see that Man O War really wasn't that
much as a group any more and i came across DSG form the Man O War Online
Store and was pleasantly surprised to see that David Shankle was still
doing music and I saw the original video for "Calling All Heroes" and decided to
rework the Theme for the film centering around the song.
What's bad is it took me up to this vid of the 4 or
5 previous to figure out how to keep the shots in sync with the song lol and
actually give people an idea of how long they were gonna need to wait in regards
to Download time.
And this film is literally the largest yet out of
all my past ones.
Just as an FYI I had full graphics on for all
the vid caps used in the film except for the use of Shadows. Already
with a system that has an AMD Athlon 1.4Gig processor with 1Gig Ram and a
Geforce 5500 FX 256MB vid card I tended to lag as you could tell by the vid caps
and Thats with running WinEQ 2.0 Pro to play Eq all the time and
using that proggie for the vid caps, my FPS is at anywhere between 29 to 35FPS
out of 40 but when I turn on the shadows it takes my FPS down to almost
nothing and WinEQ actually helps cut down cpu usage.
Once I had the viid caps I use Sorenson Squeeze to
convert all or part of the vid caps into a workable format to be used in
combining those and the stills using Flash MX 2004 Pro
Took me forever to get the FPS for the film to be
just right as well as figuring out how to get the last few stills to
appear the way they do at the right time.
once I had the .swf file saved i used Flash
Optimizer to optimize the film to the least amount of size
possible and not compromise the quality of the whole thing . Managed
to get the .swf file from 100MB to 79MB Any lower and the quality of the whole
appearance went all to hell in a hand basket and back
Oh and Stephen I took care of what
you mentioned and managed to get that uploaded and also fixed a
minor blooper at the end of the film as well thanks for the
input.
Halyburton
70 Barb Fateseer
Legion of
Vengeance
Saryrn
(aka Kwasi)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:26
PM
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Calling All
Heroes
hey Kwasi, glad to see you're still doing these
videos, they're fun tow atch and you have ood musical selections.
You should try drawing some speech bubbles with some one liner comments for
the action that's happening. Pretty cool.
Wulfric