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ATAG_Headshot
Jan-25-2013, 15:19
I flew a sortie the other day and had a kill on a 109 that looked great at normal speed. Thankfully I was recording a track and due to Colander's amazing external view utility I was able to check it out from all angles and in slow motion. Thanks again Colander! I thought it would make for a good movie and I have had a song that I wanted to use for a slow motion movie for a while now, so this seemed like a good time. I feel that this really shows the amount of detail that went into the making of this sim, even with the graphics downgrades that have happened over the last patches. All footage was recorded at 1/4 speed.

The other reason that I wanted to do a movie like this is just to get some practice with camera angles and the like to hopefully help me out when I start to take on a more ambitious project. Make sure you watch it in 1080p and let me know what you think! I'm toying with the idea of posting this at the banana forum as well as I think that it shows just how good what we have is even in the current state.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF_ZDNpv8iw

ATAG_Slipstream
Jan-25-2013, 15:40
Great Video Headshot, and a great sim.

ATAG_Snapper
Jan-25-2013, 16:47
That was a great watch, Headshot. Was that music used in "Platoon" (Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Defoe)?

Oersted
Jan-25-2013, 18:26
Already commented on your Youtube Channel. Cinematographic kill and it looks great in HD, sumptuous images. A couple of comments: I think only one colour of tracers looks best in movies. And manual view changes aren't smooth enough. I think it is better to use fixed views or from-one-plane-to-another. You can reposition foreground plane so it isn't in the middle with F10 I think it is.

Atreides
Jan-25-2013, 21:10
Great video m8. :thumbsup: Must've taken quite some time editing it, knowing how the track editor doesn't allow rewinds and such.

Atreides.


By the way (the following got a bit out of hand :coolio:):

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/33873730.jpg http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/33874491.jpg http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/33873863.jpg

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/33874318.jpg

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/33874765.jpg

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/33874816.jpg

ATAG_Headshot
Jan-25-2013, 22:36
Heh ok those pics are awesome

Oersted
Jan-26-2013, 03:55
Wold be cool if the chute stopped travelling, the guy just plopped into it from above and plummeted to the ground enveloped in the silk canopy... :-O

TheVino3
Jan-27-2013, 19:22
One of my favourite pieces of music, of all time. Nice video!

ATAG_Headshot
Jan-27-2013, 22:41
That was a great watch, Headshot. Was that music used in "Platoon" (Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Defoe)?

I'm honestly not sure. That recording I took from the game Homeworld, one of my old favorites.


Already commented on your Youtube Channel. Cinematographic kill and it looks great in HD, sumptuous images. A couple of comments: I think only one colour of tracers looks best in movies. And manual view changes aren't smooth enough. I think it is better to use fixed views or from-one-plane-to-another. You can reposition foreground plane so it isn't in the middle with F10 I think it is.

I'm thinking about going down to just white tracers in my outer guns specifically because of movie making, but I have used white and red as I find it helps with convergence shooting if you use em right. I was trying the auto views at first but I couldn't get many of the shots I wanted with them. I couldn't follow the tracers past, couldn't follow the parachute past the plane in the external etc. The biggest problem is that when we started going vertical the camera would instantly switch around 180º and back and forth as soon as the planes crossed the vertical axis. It made it impossible to get a clean shot because we were too vertical towards the end. It's a work in progress, I'm still quite new to movie making as a whole. I just wish I knew how to get more viewers. Maybe the web series I'm planning will :D.

ChiefRedCloud
Jan-27-2013, 22:41
Very nice video ... thanks buddy ...

Oersted
Jan-28-2013, 19:15
Made a comment about your vid at my channel, maybe that will bring some views...

ATAG_Headshot
Jan-28-2013, 21:54
Made a comment about your vid at my channel, maybe that will bring some views...

Thanks a ton! Already got a bunch more :D

92 Sqn. Folmar (QJ-F)
Feb-27-2013, 20:59
Awesome!!

Sabre
Feb-28-2013, 08:33
Excellent video and the music fits perfectly - great work.

Commented and subbed on YouTube so looking forward to more top quality work :thumbsup:

92 Sqn. Philstyle (QJ-P)
Mar-01-2013, 06:14
The music is a choral version of "adagio" for strings by Samuel Barber. In my subjective opinion it is the greatest piece of music by an america composer.


http://youtu.be/RRMz8fKkG2g


If you like that piece, I would highly recommend you also explore music by the pre-war English composer Edward Elgar, who (for me) composes in a similarly emotive style, but with a more English flavor - ideal for CloD videos ;)

Elgar: Nimrod - this tune is played on remembrance day each year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puUn42egmvE

Elgar: First Symphony /III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1fVO-WHPKQ

ATAG_Headshot
Mar-02-2013, 13:54
I will definitely have to check those out