The afterspray 2 - DreamHack

Woohoo, it's here! After almost a month I finally finished my latest movie. For those who do not follow my blog. It's a Quake Live frag highlight movie from the biggest international LAN event, DreamHack (held twice a year, in winter and summer). Exactly a month ago, 32 quake players gathered there to compete against each other in order to win the tourney. The movie I made showcases the best frags (kills). I always try to do something original in my movies. This time I used the in-game configurations of each of the players to show their own frags with. As a result, while watching you see what the player did while playing. I think it's an interesting approach, but I am also aware that some viewers might dislike it.

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There's a bonus in the download link, the movie file is zipped along with all the shown configurations, I've also added a little readme file that describes how to install those. If anyone has any trouble with them, feel free to ask.

Now I can get back to my other movie project! More info soon.

Settings

Right now I'm getting ready to start capturing footage from the demos I've picked. Before I start doing that, I have to know what in-game configuration (cfg), resolution and frame rate I want to use.

I already know that the video resolution will be 1280x720 (limitted by the competition rules). I'm not yet sure about the config, as I want to try out something different. As for frame rate, I want to add some motion blur to the video, but not too much. I can achive that in two ways - by using a wolfcamql command called mme_motionblurframes or by capturing the video with a higher frame rate and then lowering it in vegas.

I'm going to try different values until I'm happy with the outcome.

I was also playing around with the codecs. For the first time I made a low quality template for rendering fast previews to check if the video and audio are synchronised together properly, I don't need high quality to check that. In my previous projects I used to render short parts in max quality just to check if something is right. Such a waste of time! With the deadline closing in, I don't have time for that, so these LQ previews will work wonders. ;)  I was also looking for some real high quality settings.. and I found some but it was compressing veeery slowly (5 seconds took 10 minutes to compress), so I'll have to play around some more with different values. Such things take time but they're necessary if you want to make the movie properly. More news soon!

Capturing footage!

Two days ago I finalized some ql config releated stuff, yesterday I cleaned up 100 gigs from my HDD and today I've began capturing footage:) Already captured all the frags that I rated 10/10 and half way through the 9's. Things are going super fast :)

Oh, btw according to my flag counter, yesterday my blog hit 1337 unique visitors w00t!


Pretty cool I must admit. Anyway, I found a nice blog with music that will fit into the movie, so yeah a lot of listening again:) The music that I use in my videos is really important to me.

Expect more blog post in the near future :)