Battle over the Channel
 

A little mission I made with 12 Spits, 4 Bf-110's, 12 G.50's and 12 Cr.42's

Enjoy:cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-WW-uwQesg

Not trying to spam or anything, have just been checking out some different looks and thought I'd share them here.

Black and White, but brighter and less contrasty than before -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNWY2phl3_M

Colour, but very washed out -

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

Colour, but again, this time brighter and less contrasty than before -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1LNmGxPGfw

I really like the way the game has been designed to have a 'realistic' look to it, that can then be made to look however you want it to look later on. If it had a particular visual style hard-baked onto it from the start by the developers, we as the end users would have much less options in terms of what we could then do with it. I hope they never get convinced to change that.

Here are some more image variations using a different video clip.

With just a black and white effect -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1u1lI-OJQc

Black and white, with a slight blur added to soften the image -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiCKMj0FP6Y

Black and white, with a slight blur, more brightness and less contrast -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZVtZ6dNKg

Looks great! You may wish to try some old cinema filters http://compression.ru/video/old_cinema/index_en.html and adding a projector sound. I used to have a set of filters called something like guncam suit but can not Google it now. But there are some results if you search for old movie or cinema filters for virtualdub or other editors.

Thanks for the link Ataros. At the moment I'm exploring more basic 'clean', 'new print' sort of looks and checking out some simple variations on that, but will probably explore some of the 'aged' and 'damaged print' looks at some point too.

In the meantime, here are some colour versions of the previous video clip -

Original colour -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUy8pfaUzjs

Slightly blurred -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai2m5d6HKyg

Slightly blurred and desaturated -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YQGvmP5uXo

Slightly blurred and desaturated and brightened -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q30XHfgr2Tw

I don't expect people to watch all of these clips, but if they're interested they can open them up here or in different browser tabs on Youtube and compare the different looks, then perhaps choose which one they want to watch all the way through.

With the ability in this digital age to present various versions of an image, it seems a bit strange to me to impose my personal image preferences upon the end viewer of the image. There are certain filmic conventions that might determine which visual look or style is more suitable for a particular kind of subject matter, and maybe I'm just letting my indecision get the better of me, but why not let the audience decide?

So far the AI motions have been very jerky and look unnatural. I think good gun-cam vids and sim movies will have to wait until they smooth the movements out.

You're quite the propaganda machine.

If it's stable enough, people can fly and record stuff online together to avoid having to rely on the jerky-looking AI movements. I haven't been too worried about it though with the kinds of video's I've been making.

I guess I've made my point about the different looks that can can be achieved using such a versatile base as we have with Cliffs of Dover. :grin: Will just post one link to any future video's I make and let people find on Youtube any variations I might put up, no need to clog up this thread with them.

Look at the effect of the gunner after he gets hit.

Now thats an effect!




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfjl9...embedded#at=59

Could you use it with dynamic range compression/reduction filter (sort of levels reduced in photoshop) and increased contrast?

Desaturated with compressed range could be also very interesting.

I love the look of the 50s films or late war gun camera color footage.

Which software do you use for video editing?