One of mine

[Davideo]

Hi everybody I shot this in the middle of summer, despite what the sky looks like, I used Magic Bullet film looks to colour the footage to a more deserty look.

www.davideodesign.co.uk/tat2.htm

Hope you like it.

Any feedback much appreciated.

[branny]

Brilliant!! - I can see there's been a lot of work, but well worth the effort. I love it.

[H & M Video]

Excellent, but now let us know how you did it and with what equipment.

Harry

[The-Video-Company.co.uk]

Nice one.

[R. Ferguson]

Great piece of video.
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.Would really like to know how you did it though.

[tom hardwick]

David's been a bit quiet in replying, hasn't he? I too liked it, especially the casual (natural?) way it was acted.

[Davideo]

Glad you liked it.

I woke up one morning and just thought what if... and could it be done, I hadn't really used any 3d apps as they are a career in their self and such a 'Black Art' to learn. But I had downloaded a free to use Tiefighter model and once rendered it looked AWESOME, I had to do something with it.

I shot the footage on Ainsdale beach near Southport where else could i find a desert in NW England.

The R2D2 as a trash can was done in photoshop and layered over a video grab of the footage so i could "blend" it in, this was imported in to After Effects and I added a false camera shake with Genarts Sapphire plugin distortion shake.

I found a stick on the beach which was to become a light saber also done in After Effects.

At the beach I proceeded to throw myself about with a tennis rack, as you guys know too many shots of the same thing is better than not enough when it comes to the editing.

It was tricky to guess how far the ball would go before it would come back to hit it again but in 'that' scene, I pretty much visualized it in my head and tried to react accordingly.

When it came to the "ball" i needed something that would show up against light and dark so i made a 20 frame animation in After Effects of a black orb with 2 white orbs rotating round it and treated the white orbs to Genarts Sapphire plugin GLOW and also i applied the glow to the star shaped impact flashes everytime the ball is hit.

Then i fired up Maxon's Cinema 4d (apparently this is geared more toward graphic designers of which i was till i was made redundant) for the 3d stuff. This software is very deep and its a struggle to use (for me) I probably use it completely wrong.

Anyway I muddled through settings and keyframe animation and get some nice flybys and a very eleborate figure of 8 flight path which i use for the scene where human n tiefighter appear together. Its at this point theres a major blow cos for some reason Quicktime becomes corrupt and will not re-install. I need this so i can render the Tiefighter with an ALPHA channel so it will "drop" straight in and Quciktime is the only format that supports it. :confused:

What can i do???????????? Werheeeeeeey I know i will render with a perfect RGB Green background and Chroma key green screen it out, thats what i did and it worked fine, what a work around tho. :)

Thats it really rendered a big ball and textured it with a still of the beach to make the planet.

Imported all my footage and fx treated footage into Sony Vegas and began to assemble the jigsaw pieces into what you see, also composed the music and sound engineered additional sound fx and manually adjusted all sound tracks up and down so not to break past the 6DB and eliminating distortion Sony Vegas may be poohed by some but it is ace, I actually used the keying in that instead of the Mighty After Effects, the sound options are amazing you can manually mix everything even 5.1 surround sound using genuine Dolby encoding with realtime sound shifting.

Additonal footage I used Discreet's Combustion for some smoke effects and 2 Detonation Films clips for the "missed ball" and final explosion shot.

Final thing re-rendered it with Magic Bullet to get a film and tint it deserty look.

If any of you guys want anymore info please ask, didn't know how much to go into here, hope i haven't overdone it a bit.

regards,

David

[branny]

Pretty straightforward stuff then!

[Andy Astbury]

Great stuff - was that rendered in AE?

[Davideo]

Lol @ Branny

Each individual compositing/Fx clip was rendered After Effects, then all pulled into Sony Vegas for master edit, plus final render in Vegas as well, done this way as you end up with 1 vided track and 1 stereo track so it renders faster, Magic Bullet is very very very, slow.

[tom hardwick]

time to get it on Youtube or Googlevideo, methinks.

[dominicwitherow]

Even better, put it onto www.revver.com. They add a single frame advert at the end and you get something like 20cents for every time someone clicks on it! With inventive and well produced stuff like this, you should get some cash out of it too. it doesn't cost the viewer a penny either!

Good stuff!
Best, Dominic

[Davideo]

I put a pretty popular viral at Revver and made a few quid.

take a look at the 4th paragraph from the bottom

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20409-2448334.html

it got over 6 million views before i discovered revver.com DAMN IT!

BUT even after all this time still makes $1,000 per month at lulu.tv.

Have done pretty alright this year with viral videos.

[dominicwitherow]

I inexplicably attracted nearly 1,000 people to view an experiment I put up there. 1,000 hits is nearly nothing, but I was still chuffed to get $20 for nearly nothing!

[Davideo]

are big at www.metacafe.com you get around $5 per 1000 hits there not Revver money but saying that revver isnt a destination site whereas Metacafe is so if you get just a little exposure on there who knows, shoved a really odd vid on there 3 weeks ago and it made a grand.

YOu have to get 20k views to qualify then you get $100, after that you get $5 per thou.

Worth a go.

[pafilmuokim]

Something like i wish i could produce when i'm experienced enough :) Great job!

[Mike Pulcinella]

Technically brilliant and loads of fun too!