We are the Night

[ironroad]

I just completed another video as part of my series XI (eleven) Part 11 Charlie titled We are the Night.

 

 

This video is a bit degraded in quality for several reasons:

 

First, it was filmed during DCS night hours and capturing night scenes in DCS is a while different beast in terms of quality when comparing to daylight hours. *To get "clearer nights" for your rendered video it is better to film during dawn or dusk hours and then place a "virtual" pseudo filter on the clips during the video editing process. However, in this video I wanted all the night distortions to be intact. I wanted it to try to simulate the level of strain that comes with looking through NVGs, and the particles, debris, fog, etc. that gets stirred up in the late night and early morning hours due to atmospheric effects.

 

Second, to do some of the effects for this video (i.e. night vision, FLIR, etc.) I had to switch video editing programs and use a program I am unfamiliar with called Lightworks. Lightworks is a powerful tool and I would rank far ahead of windows movie maker (but still far behind Sony Vegas) in terms of abilities and usability. On the plus side. there is a completely free version of the program available and there are no trial or rendering time limitations. Unfortunately Lightworks is not intuitive, has a steep learning curve, and the free version has some rendering limitations (i.e. file type and quality).

 

Finally, Youtube kills uploaded video quality. You can capture, edit, and render clips with a moderate level of quality and ok framerate and they will look decent on your machine (or if transferred via physical media). However, upload them to Youtube, or a similar mass sharing online streaming service, and it is like cooking prime rib in the microwave. I understand that things have to be compressed to be effectively uploaded and shared online as space is a premium and servers don't pay for themselves. So when creating a video I always capture and render it at the highest level of quality possible, even it means dropping the frame rate drastically. You can easily get away with 24-30fps and still have a smooth and "cinematic" looking video.

 

*This is my first ever video were none of the flying is done by me. All AI sycophants.

 

 

[Lt_Maverick]

Nice video. Though the quality seemed pretty good on an a 6s.

 

 

 

 

"The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down."- General Chuck Yeager, USAF, describing his first confrontation with a Me262.

 

 

JayRac3r/Lt_Mav YouTube Channel

[ironroad]

Nice video. Though the quality seemed pretty good on an a 6s.

 

 

 

 

"The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down."- General Chuck Yeager, USAF, describing his first confrontation with a Me262.

 

 

JayRac3r/Lt_Mav YouTube Channel

 

 

Thanks, my next videos will be back at 1080p

[ironroad]

This is it!

 

Everyone the time has come for me to bring my DCS video series titled Eleven, to a close. When I started this video series well over a year ago I had no idea that anyone would actually care to watch it. I mainly made the videos for my own personal edification and tastes. Now 20+ videos later (broken up into Eleven parts) I must bring this to a close. Will I be making or posting videos anytime soon? Probably not, unless the creative bug bites me again. But a big thanks to those who did take to time to watch and critique my videos. And for those few that chose to bash (thankfully no one here), I thank you as well for you took the time to single out my videos among the hundreds of DCS videos that get posted to Youtube on a daily basis.

 

The Mighty Eagle

[ironroad]

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