Something to watch while we wait (and wait ;-) for 1.1

[Andrew_McP]

http://www.andrew.mcp.dsl.pipex.com/lomac.htm 38Mb or 10Mb

 

Sometimes the Su-25 seems like a pretty boring ride. But maybe appearances can be deceptive?

 

Andrew McP

[Guest Cali]

Very nice movie! I liked the different views you had, very good.

[VMFA-Blaze]

This is truley amazeing Andrew.......

 

 

You've again topped yourself.......

 

You no dought have an uncanny ability to show Lock on, (I think) the way it should be shown....

 

Awsome job guy......

 

What are your system specs and settings????

 

This system and settings seem to be the best I've seen so far, not forgetting your film makeing skills of course.......

 

~S~

 

 

Blaze

[Andrew_McP]

Thanks for the comments, I appreciate it.

 

Blaze:

> What are your system specs and settings????

 

This movie was flown at 800x600 and Fraps recorded it at the same resolution, 20fps. (25 would've been better, but the extra recording strain sometimes shows up as stuttering). I can fly at much higher resolutions when not recording, but Fraps struggles to handle that extra data.

 

The PC isn't anything too impressive by current standards. AMD Mobile 2500+ @ 2.2GHz, 1Gb pc3200 @ 166MHz (for rock solid stability), a fast 80Gb, 8Mb cache/7200 HD (very important for Fraps), and a 256Mb ATI X800Pro.

 

Ok, the vid card's a bit of a luxury, but it doesn't help recording much. The 256Mb probably helps cache more textures, but that still doesn't seem to help those annoying stutters when explosions etc occur for the first time in a mission.

 

Oh, my in-game settings are maxed *except* for viewing distance. Cranking that up to max still hurts frame rates too much. More CPU power required... about 2GHz more, probably!

 

Hope that helps,

Andrew McP

[Trident]

Another masterpiece, those camera angles are just amazing! Seriously, by using some unique sequences you manage to turn a rather plain plot into an exciting movie time and again :) Sync or Swim is still my favourite though ;)

[Pilgrim]

Excellent flying there m8. One of the better frog movies out there

[VVanks]

It's great, but it only lasted several minutes. What should I do with the rest of the time?

[Andrew_McP]

VVanks:

>What should I do with the rest of the time?

 

You can tell me why that AA missile battery kept firing in entirely the wrong direction, with the missiles exploding after a few moments of flight. I only noticed that some way into filming, by which time it was a little late to redesign the mission and start again.

 

Besides, it took me ages to fly the damned thing without getting shot down even *with* the AA missiles going astray much of the time ;-)

 

Andrew McP

[Pilgrim]

That's comforting. Because I was starting to believe that I really suck at flying the frog compared to you ;)

[Rogue6g]

Awesome!!

 

Dude that movie was one of the best I've ever seen! The camera angles combined with the classical music made me want to fly again.

BTW ,what was the name of that song used? Maybe the next one will feature "Flight of the Valkyries"?

[chp]

Thank you very much!

My thought about a talent behind mcp7 movie was not wrong.

I wish you enjoyed it as much as we viewers do :)

 

BTW was it a default payload (AAM and bombs on inner pylons)?

PS The picture is fine, but it's a pity it is a re-compression :^/

[Andrew_McP]

Trident:

> Seriously, by using some unique sequences you manage to turn

> a rather plain plot into an exciting movie

 

I always think it's best to have a great idea and then execute it to the best of your abilities. But great ideas are very rare! Well, they are in my house anyway :-) So the next best thing is to take an average idea and work it until it looks a little less average. That's where ED have helped a lot. Their camera options are very, very flexible. So with a little effort and a lot of patience (ok, and some half speed recording... that helps ;-) it's possible to capture some rather nice footage occasionally... and a lot of really average stuff as well. I usually use about 10% of what I capture.

 

Rogue6g:

> The camera angles combined with the classical music made me

> want to fly again.

 

That's exactly what I hope to inspire, so that's high praise indeed. Thanks.

 

> BTW ,what was the name of that song used?

 

Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Dance of the Knights. I should've put it in the credits. That particular recording is by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa... unless their publishing company is reading this, in which case it was recorded in my living room by me & some friends... honest. I hacked the music around a little, reusing the first passage several times back to back. The full version has quieter passages which might have been very useful if I'd tried to develop a decent 'plot'.

 

> Maybe the next one will feature "Flight of the Valkyries"?

 

Wash your mouth out! ;-) Ok, I did use Carl Orf's 'O Fortuna' in an earlier movie, so I can hardly call the cliché police on you. But I have promised myself I'll resist the Valkyries. Apocalypse Now used it so well it'd be a shame to poach it.

 

I have an idea for an Elvis-backed movie though. If you're lucky it'll never see the light of day :-)

 

chp:

> was it a default payload (AAM and bombs on inner pylons)?

 

No, I made the payload myself (in LOMAC, not a special payload editor)

 

> The picture is fine, but it's a pity it is a re-compression :^/

 

I still have a lot to learn about codecs and compression formats. Sometimes I get it very wrong, but this movie is better than some I've made. If I had enough webspace (and bandwidth!) I would upload the high quality, 339Mb DivX version. But that's a *big* download :-)

 

Andrew "all shook up" McP

[chp]

By re-compression I mean orig>divx>mwv. However judging from size of DivX version, there was no much of quality loss I believe.

 

have fun,

Anatoly "chp" Y

[4c Hajduk Veljko]

God job Andrew! Just as other said, it is the camera angle that made the movie so good!

[Andrew_McP]

By re-compression I mean orig>divx>mwv.

 

Yes, I realised what you meant, it's not an ideal solution. I try to save the original movie in very good quality from my movie editor, then re-compress with Movie Maker 2 because MM2 has a setting which allows you to force the output to be a certain size. I have 50Mb of webspace, so I can set MM2 to make a movie of about 48Mb to make sure it fits. It's very useful, but -- as you say -- recompression is never a good idea.

 

That's why some of my earlier movies have looked *very* poor compared to the high quality of other people's movies.

 

If I had more webspace life would be easier. But my ISP allows me 'unlimited' bandwidth (as long as I don't make a movie every week :-) so I cannot complain too much.

 

Andrew McP

[GoonerTC]

The film was awesome. I dont really like flying the frog but that was class. Well done and cant wait to see what you do with the 25T. I only wish i had the skill to come up with an A-10 movie like this one.

[Andrew_McP]

Bump for those of you without broadband.

 

Andrew McP

[Glowing_Amraam]

Sorry to bump this ancient thread back alive, but im looking for ANDREW_MCP's movie called "Sync or Swim".

 

Where can i get it..?

[Shepski]

Link doesn't work Andrew!

[hitman]

Prolly cuz its almost 2 years old.

[Shepski]

DOH!!!

[Glowing_Amraam]

Yeah and again:

 

Sorry to bump this ancient thread back alive, but im looking for ANDREW_MCP's movie called "Sync or Swim".

 

Where can i get it..?

 

:P

[EvilBivol-1]

I have it. Want to PM me your MSN?