[VIDEO] "Valley Of Death" Two A-10´s doing a CAS mission.

[Kaptein_Damli]

New movie out! 30 hours or so used in editing of this film! I needed to grab all footage at half speed (tip from GA in his movie thread) and because of this, all audio is out of sync. Anyway, sounds recorded from a game from a mic is not any good, so I needed to add all sounds and music in postprocess. Timeconsuming yes it was! Plus side, I managed to record with HDR bloom mod and high scenes etc, more trees etc. AA/AF stills kill the fps so until new rig you have to live without it on my videos!

 

Hope you like it! Link here:

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f1017TDSBI

 

 

Be sure to watch it in "High Quality".

 

EDIT:

 

Highres download link: (1280X1024 495MB upscaled from 640X512)

http://files.filefront.com/Valley+Of+Death+HD+1280X14avi/;11772177;/fileinfo.html

 

Smaller version (640X512 237MB) can be downloaded from here:

http://files.filefront.com/Valley+Of+Death+YouTubeavi/;11773536;/fileinfo.html

Edited September 13, 2008 by Kaptein_Damli

[arthuro12]

Checking it now :)

 

[LOS EDITOS] Pretty cool! :D kept me watching :D

Edited September 12, 2008 by arthuro12

[Kaptein_Damli]

Checking it now :)

 

[LOS EDITOS] Pretty cool! :D kept me watching :D

 

That´s a good thing, right? :smilewink:

[arthuro12]

That´s a good thing, right? :smilewink:

hell yes!

[BrumTx]

Any chance we can get a download of it please ????

[Kaptein_Damli]

Any chance we can get a download of it please ????

 

Sure! Upload failed before I went to work, will reupload it when I get home. Got to work till 20:00 24h Norway local time, so be patience!

 

Glad you liked it! :)

[Glowing_Amraam]

Ok i watched it, now for the "tiny review";

 

At the beginning, the intro and logo you used is barely visible here on my 19" monitor, was too dark, so was the text you had at the beginning.

 

You had, IMO, too many "static" shots, meaning the camera was just "there", looking at something, without any movement, be it F2 view or the CTRL-F11 freecam view.

And since you are using vegas to edit your video, i suggest removing the HDR mod, and tweak the contrast yourself, because some of the shots were too dark.

 

And the scene with the A-10's flying towards their targets was kinda repetive, and didnt really add anything except showing the same thing over and over. Some zoomed in shots would really help you out (this goes for the entire movie actually..).

 

And since you were using camera shake, some suttle camera shaking here and there wouldn't hurt either :)

 

And about the sound, it's rather ok, but sometimes the timing of the sound effects didnt quite match the footage, while other times it was perfect.

Some sounds were rather too loud as well.

 

The attack scenes were ok, though the pacing might have been faster, and some variation in the views would also help. And following the bomb as it falls down towards its target is something you should avoid, unless you're trying to tell some sort of "point" as to why the viewer should watch it fall through the air.

 

And the music? Hmm...where have i heard that before? :D

 

Overall, it was a nice effort, and please dont think i am slaughtering your movie, this is just MY opinion, and comments about stuff that i would have done differently. :)

 

Keep it up!! :D

Edited September 12, 2008 by Glowing_Amraam

[graywo1fg]

Keep up the good work m8 :D i enjoyed it :)

[Vekkinho]

I like it! So here's some rep points!

[Kaptein_Damli]

I like it! So here's some rep points!

 

Thanx! :) See top post for download link!

[Kaptein_Damli]

Keep up the good work m8 :D i enjoyed it :)

 

Thanx a lot! I make this videos not for just having fun doing it, but also to entertain people playing the same game! Responses like this keeps me motivated to do more!

[Kaptein_Damli]

Any chance we can get a download of it please ????

 

Uploaded file now. Sorry for delay. See top post for link.

Will upload a 640X512 version later. (Lower MB, faster download.)

[Kaptein_Damli]

Ok i watched it, now for the "tiny review";

 

At the beginning, the intro and logo you used is barely visible here on my 19" monitor, was too dark, so was the text you had at the beginning.

 

You had, IMO, too many "static" shots, meaning the camera was just "there", looking at something, without any movement, be it F2 view or the CTRL-F11 freecam view.

And since you are using vegas to edit your video, i suggest removing the HDR mod, and tweak the contrast yourself, because some of the shots were too dark.

 

And the scene with the A-10's flying towards their targets was kinda repetive, and didnt really add anything except showing the same thing over and over. Some zoomed in shots would really help you out (this goes for the entire movie actually..).

 

And since you were using camera shake, some suttle camera shaking here and there wouldn't hurt either :)

 

And about the sound, it's rather ok, but sometimes the timing of the sound effects didnt quite match the footage, while other times it was perfect.

Some sounds were rather too loud as well.

 

The attack scenes were ok, though the pacing might have been faster, and some variation in the views would also help. And following the bomb as it falls down towards its target is something you should avoid, unless you're trying to tell some sort of "point" as to why the viewer should watch it fall through the air.

 

And the music? Hmm...where have i heard that before? :D

 

Overall, it was a nice effort, and please dont think i am slaughtering your movie, this is just MY opinion, and comments about stuff that i would have done differently. :)

 

Keep it up!! :D

 

You better get a new monitor! :music_whistling::megalol: heheh...

I know...dunno why the white text suddenly was gray...I am 100% sure I choosed white in PhotoShop...may be because of the codec? About some scenes to dark with bloom etc..I added some contrast because I thought the scenes where a bit lifeless. I choosed to use HDR Bloom mod because I thought it fitted well with time of day of the attack which was 0815. It may be a little to much, agree on that. Maybe I should tweak the config file some more.

 

About static scenes and repetive scenes. I agree to a certain point. It is my style, I prefer more static scenes as if it is too fast paced, it may be too MTV´ish for my personal opinion. I am sticking to the more classic "old style" of making scenes, I want the action to take place in a certain angle or a flyby. It may sound simple and boring, but I prefer it this way.

I know some scenes where repited a little, but I also had some ground shots and not just F6/F3 scenes.

 

Sounds out of sync...I found one explosion I just had forgot to fix.. a little off sync on that one, but I think rest of it is pretty in sync? It took a hell of a time adding all sounds in!

 

About the bombs, I actually wanted to cut it out, but found out it synced with the music so nicely so I kept it! Also seen in Pearl Harbour btw. (Just done A LOT better!)

 

BTW: YouTube reencode after upload, making it some darker because of the reencode. The original footage is not so dark as in YouTube. Download highres version so see the difference.

Edited September 12, 2008 by Kaptein_Damli

[Glowing_Amraam]

:)

If it's your style, then obviously, stick to it! :D

 

And you're right, i think maybe youtube made some parts darker...

But regarding the HDR mod, i know it makes it look good as you play/record, but my point was you can achieve the same look by playing around with the contrast in vegas, and using glow :)

This way you also have more control of what is beeing shown.

 

And about adding sounds, yeah, i know how much time it takes. I never record sound from in-game.

[graywo1fg]

mmmmmmmm hearing you two talk about this just completely makes me want to make another movie.... i have not made one in a year :( i'm way too busy though :( stupid college. i was about to but after getting the class load for this year i was almost depressed to learn how busy i would be.

 

sooo..... everyone else keep making em so i can continue to not wait to make mine :D ..... if that made sense LOL :P

[Kaptein_Damli]

mmmmmmmm hearing you two talk about this just completely makes me want to make another movie.... i have not made one in a year :( i'm way too busy though :( stupid college. i was about to but after getting the class load for this year i was almost depressed to learn how busy i would be.

 

sooo..... everyone else keep making em so i can continue to not wait to make mine :D ..... if that made sense LOL :P

 

 

I know..having a kid and wife surely takes time...what you CAN do is just think of what kind of movie you will make and write some sort of script when you can. Ideas and think of angles, music and write it all down. So, when you have the time, make a mission or download some of the premade missions on lockonfiles, edit them for your liking, and just fly the mission with "record track" enabled. When you have the time, you can fire up fraps, play with different angles etc and suddenly you have a folder with tons of footage. And then when you have LOTS of time, it´s time for edit! :D

[Glowing_Amraam]

Yup, putting together a movie sure takes time, if you want to do it right.

But at the end, its worth it :D

[BrumTx]

Yup, putting together a movie sure takes time, if you want to do it right.

But at the end, its worth it :D

 

 

Amraam... The MASTER looking forward to any of your Vids

[BrumTx]

THANKS for uploading it I've enjoyed watching it a few times.... REP inbound