Les,

Really nice work, but... ( and no, I would never give you a thumbs-down :) )

...the fade in and out with the tempo is highly artistic, but I would like to see more of the action...
...So, if you don't mind, please make a full-length 3D feature film for IMAX!
I would pay loads of money to see it! :grin: Your methods just scream out the capabilities of this sim, and truly help in it's promotion.

In fact, brilliant work, Les!
The devs should be very happy with you!
:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D

Thanks for the comments.

Most of my video's are just improvised, record-some-stuff-and-see-what-happens kind of things, including the last two. (I didn't even intend to use titles in them, and was wracking my brains trying to think what I should write on them once I'd decided to use them.) That they're watchable at all is indeed mostly a testament to the contribution the developers and others have made to the game.

I forgot to mention for example that the He-111 skin I used in the last video was made by Shado. (Should probably add that to the Youtube description.) I should even thank Ataros and other forum members here for tuning me into the Old Cinema filter I used on the previous video, and for planting in the back of my mind the idea of doing some time-lapse and night shots.

While I'm basically doing this stuff because I'm interested in the technology and processes involved, I'm not working in a vacuum and it wouldn't be happening at all without the input and influences of others, ie. the IL-2 community.

So, yeah, you'll have to blame and thank yourselves as well. lol :-D

Just a note about the editing though before I go. It's actually quite difficult to record and cut together comprehensible action sequences using Cliffs Of Dover, let alone ones that are incorporated into a wider story or context and which can engage the viewer on something other than the tech-spectacle level. Among other things, there are still a lot of technical and graphical limits to what you can do with it, due to the nature of the game itself, but also due to the amount of bugs and glitches we still have in it. Basically, a lot of good, useful, and sometimes essential shots and ideas get ruined or have to be abandoned, and if you can't re-film them (because it's just not possible or isn't worth the effort), you just have to try and work with what you've got and deal with it in editing, sometimes in ways that change the basic nature of the video you're making. Even with the (limited) ability to record and play back tracks, it's a real challenge sometimes to string together a sequence of images in such a way that people can then just take them for granted and focus on the 'story' being told, (or the events being depicted or documented.) It's do-able, but it takes a lot of effort, more than what even most of those who are into that sort of thing are prepared to put it in, or so it seems to me anyway. So, long story short, it ain't easy, and I too look forward to what the miners of this rich but problematic seam of potential movies can dig up and refine.

Very good job Less.

S! pilots

now also to our western friends...

Hello and welcome for a great time together.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkaMx6kS_U

Another video wich isn't available in Germany because of copyright violence. :( Why can't you all just do your videos without any music?

http://www.hidemyass.com/

sollte funktionieren...

url reinschmeissen und geht scho...

viel spass ! ;)

Learning to fly.
 

Video made in MP.

http://vimeo.com/26904170

Why Germany can't ajust copyright laws? :-P

Haha that's cute :D


@LoBiSoMeM and what the hell does Germany got to do with this? Copyright laws are extreme almost everywhere, especially in the US where basically even children get sued over hundreds of thousands compensation because they downloaded a stupid justin creeper song.

The problem here isn't Germany, it's the lame labels that want to have special markets in e.g. lucrative Germany. We pay a lot more here, for games as well. Youtube doesn't want to pay up and thus the stuff is not available. So blame Youtube and the Labels - and yes, blame copyright over this crap in general, but not Germany.

Inspired by a lot of the videos here, I'm trying to put together my own. I've managed to mix a good audio track and I'm working on capturing the 'rushes' or raw footage.

I started practicing in 1946 since I didn't have CloD yet. Now that I've got CloD, I'd like to use that for the video.

Questions for those who are making vids:

What's the best way you've found to capture footage? Make a FMB mission and lay out tons of static cameras and then just roll tape with the in game recorder, then go back and continuously replay the recording while using FRAPS at key moments?

Do you use multiplayer to get the pilots to fly 'properly' for the cameras?

Regarding the time acceleration thing to smooth out the game for recordings. Do you play the mission at slow speed, play the in game recording back at higher speed and FRAPS that? Or do you play at normal speed, play the recording back at slower speed, FRAPS that, and then speed it up back to normal in the video edit process?

When you are flying the mission to be recorded, do you reduce realism settings to help get the shots you want? What realism settings seem to work best for recording tracks?

My video is pretty simple so I should be able to accomplish it, I'm just looking for helpful tips that maybe seem obvious now to lots of folks, but I'd have to discover through trial and error. Perhaps save me some time :P