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Video material - Intro,gameplay,trailer

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Psawhn:
On the rendering side, it's almost always best to render to a sequence of images. That way if something goes kaput, or there are a few frames messed up, it's easy to just continue or rerender those few frames. (With blender, importing a sequence of images into the compositor is really simple, too.)

I didn't know .avi's could have alpha. That's neat.

PhaD:
A sequence of images  is the best way to make some effects, i can also go to manipulate frames by Photoshop ya. But its very large ;) feel free, to send them thru icq when you have a sequence complete.    
Long time ago i worked with a friend on a video with 3d models in it, they had to move in the correct perspektive, he works with maya and integrated an alpha in his videos 4 me.

inquisiteur2:
A cheesy cartoonish x-com defense style introduction would be fantastic in my opinion. If an intro movie is planned, it would be better not end like Ufo extraterrestrials one...

Destructavator:
Hi,

I didn't realize until after I uploaded the video trailer I put together that someone else was interested in making videos for this project.  Perhaps we could work together on some video content - Here is how I'm looking at it:

I have a recent (only 2-3 months old) fast computer that has the ability to capture full-screen content and record it as a video file and still run this game at the same time (this is how I put together that video), but for video editing all I have is low-end cheaper software, some Ulead Videostudio package.

I know some of the other members who post on this forum have access to better editing software, and if I transfer raw footage of entire game sessions and missions, perhaps other people could use it to make nicer videos?

I have a password protected section of my website where I can place raw recordings and someone else with high-end software could download them.  I can't just post the login and password here where the whole world could read it by reading the forum, but if anyone is interested, you can email Mattn or myself and we can send you the login information so you could download the footage.

As far as format, I can encode the video in almost any codec, when I make the recordings it is originally encoded in AVI with the Lagarith codec compression, which is open-source and 100% lossless (still big files, but no loss in quality whatsoever).

Is anyone interested in making more video content as a group project?  We could also get more music tracks from other people, and I have some creative commons soundtracks on the publicly accessible portion of my own website:  www.destructavator.com, (They are under the "download" section from the menu).

Destructavator:
...Forgot to mention, the video I put together is also now in the Internet Archive: www.archive.org

Just type "UFO Alien Invasion" in the search engine, it is listed under moving images/video.  To get the full-screen high-quality playback you have to download the MPEG-1 (the biggest file), if you just let it play on the page (streaming) it has lower quality.

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