*drum roll*

So yeah, the movie is pretty much ready. I've rendered / compressed the final version and as always still found some minor flaws that can be fixed. The movie is alright as it is, but I want to polish those details. The video is a bit over 3 minutes long. Which might be too short for some people. But I put quality over quantity, and I'd rather make a short video that leaves the viewer wanting to see more (most likely will watch the video again), than a long video that might bore the viewer halfway through. Long videos require much more interesting content, which is quite hard to gather nowadays.

Anyway, I'm going back to polishing the video, I'll release it later today.

Almost done - DH highlights

I'm close to finishing my latest movie. For those that don't follow my blog frequently, I'm working on a quick Dreamhack summer 2012 quakelive frag highlights movie (phew, that was long :)). Initially, I wanted to make it for the recent Republic of Gamers movie making contest, but due to some personal stuff that took priority over finishing the movie, I missed the deadline. I didn't drop the project though, and so I'll be finishing the movie shortly. I'm missing a proper intro, ending, name tags, and some final touches. Other than that, the release might be delayed my current poor internet connection. Heck, I might even might go find a good hotspot to upload it! I'll figure something out:))

Still watching demos

Two weeks left to go. Today I finished watching the demos from the groupstage and started watching matches from the playoffs. I already found some nice frags, I don't recall anything jaw dropping though.. Hopefully, I'll find something later on.

I'm having a hard time with the music choice. I've been listening to various stuff all day today. There's still some time left, so it's not that bad, I'll decide on something eventually. Any suggestions?:)

Stuff!

Didn't have much access to the internet in the last 2 days and I didn't have a chance to write a new post. But worry do not, because here it is! Some stuff happened recently, first of all, I passed LIMBO and I think the game is simply fantastic, playing it is a must for everyone. On a related sidenote, I got a email from humblebundle that they have added 3 more games to their fifth edition, among them there's Super Meat Boy, which is the next game I'm going to check out since it has a cool 8bit soundtrack that I listened to while working on pixelbeat. I'll write some more about it after I try it.

Yesterday, there was a one map: The Longest Yard (dm17) quakelive tourney going on. I wanted to signup for it, but because of all the mess with organization, I gave up on it. Apparently it was kind of successful. Maximzr, the best dm17 player, won the final game against noresz (2:1). I might signup for the next tourney, if they'll hold one. Anyway, I have to find out if any of the players made some impressive frags.
Speaking of frags, I watched all my demos for my next movie project. I found some really nice commands in wolfcamql that speed up watching demos.

• fragforward - which playbacks only frags (5 seconds before the frag and ~3 seconds after it) 
• seekclock - which allows you to jump to any part of the demo (seekclock minutes:seconds)

With these two commands I can go through demos much, muuuch faster. I might start working on this new project soon. With all the experience from my past projects, I make movies faster, and faster. So yeah, expect a new movie this summer.

Frag part coming along nicely

Yeeaaa, I've managed to do quite a bit today. Right now I'm rendering all of the frags I've put together so far. I want to see how do they look in one go ..or something:)

Anyway, I can safely say that the video will be around 5 minutes long. I guess that's sort of short but that all I can do with this content.

Daily update #3 :)

Unfortunately, today, due to lack of time, I wasn't able to do much. I started messing around with the video in the late evening and damn, I forgot that putting frags together was so much fun :) 

I only managed to lay down just a few frags but I really like what I've done so far.

Here's a new editor shot, you can see the 3 frags I've put together, the in-game sounds below the song, and the name tags above the frags :)

Tomorrow I'll continue on puttings frags together, also if I'll have enough time I'll make a transition between the intro bit and the frag part.