m:studio 2.4d in use on SA Sports Hall of Fame

#346

A one week delay in end-client approval. My client, a sports video producer, couldn’t get an immediate preview date with the end client (famous sport personalities and sponsors here in SA). That is now happening end of next week. I can’t start final render before then, although I could take a calculated risk and so long render the sections least likely to be changed.

#347

Got end-client approval.:thumbsup: They love it. :slight_smile:

Only a tiny change to the photographs used in the one part of the sequence. Now for final render, comp and delivery…

#348

No wonder (except that you never know with clients), because it looks fantastic.
Congratulations!!!

#349

Paul, well done. Any chance of seeing it when it’s done?

#350

Thanks guys. :slight_smile: Yes, I’ll post links to the broadcast video with audio. That’s still a week or two away… final render first.

I’m thinking of uploading it in native 720x576 resolution. I’ll have to see what file size that will be, but most of you are big broadband surfers, right?

I’ll also post about all the other deliverables like generic backgrounds and title straps as well as a credit roll, so some of you can look out for your name in lights! :thumbsup:

#351

Dude, just a 320x200 DivX or something, dont go posting your full res stuff around. :slight_smile:

#352

Full res helps to show the detail in the work and I don’t see why someone would pirate it while having an explicit South African theme. Perhaps then a 3/4 res video as a compromise? :slight_smile:

#353

ROFL
Have ever seen this. Someone not releasing the full material although he wanted to? :slight_smile:
I am in for the full res Paul. That is if it is not too much pressure on you to please all of us. :twisted:

#354

Full res comin’ up ------- yeeeha! :slight_smile:

#355

Cool! Something new to put on my reel! :smiley:

Haha, I just remember an thread a few years back where some kid grabbed other peoples work and put it on a reel to get a job. He got found out of course, but it did open my eyes to how your stuff can be misrepresented.

Hell, I’d love to see your work in all it’s glory. :slight_smile: Bring it on!

#356

Give it a watermark, like your name or logo used as a displacement layer in AFX, full res but unusable for gsuttors showhijacking :D.

#357

I thought of a watermark myself. However, anyone pirating my work has their own consciences to live with and the consequences of being found out - very likely - especially in the information age of the Internet. Plus, they could add my stuff to their reels even at 1/2 or 3/4-res, no?

Thanks for the feedback and the concerns… :thumbsup:

#358

heh, i highly doubt anyone would steal it. cmon now. People using your stuff in their reel? thats unheard of, why would anyone want to claim they did something in a package they probably dont even own?

i would be more worried about people exploiting your work in the commercial world, but then how big is the market for the content you made? i highly doubt you need to worry about people stealing it. just make sure everyone knows whos is responsible for the work, thats all.

#359

Hey, I agree with you completely stooch. That’s why I wanted to just post the whole thing in full res in the first place. And that’s what I’ll do. Because I haven’t done this before I just wanted some feedback with regards to resolution which influences file size and download times. But it seems those sort of worries belong to the previous 28K and 56K dial-up modem era… :slight_smile:

#360

my suggestion is - sorenson squeeze. in fact if you want, i can take a crack and recompress it for you if you dont have squeeze. its miraculous as far as compression goes, you can even add watermarks in there. my website videos all use sorenson squeeze and the file sizes for the content is actually quite nice!

#361

Windows Media is very good if you use the windows media encoder (free from microsoft) and feed it with uncompressed footage. You need to do some trial and error to find the perfect match between quality and size, but it is very good and the software is unusually pro-friendly for MS.

Also very good is the H264 Codec in Quicktime 7, but only if you encode a .mov file (I use the Quicktime Animation Codec as source) directly from inside the Pro Version of the Quicktime Player. Then it supports two pass encoding and delivers quite nice results that are cross platform (although there is a Windows Media Component for Mac also). For audio I would recommend AAC in that case.
If you encode from AfterEffects or other software, the results are much worse, since they mostly only support the basic features.

As far as stealing goes:
Let the stupid big media companies fear to death over piracy. For creative people, I think you have way more to win than to loose if you show your work in good quality. I was often quite annoyed if I had to watch a miniature with heavy artifacting - what good should that do? And the more people know your work, the more stupid people look who try to use it for their own…
I have read a very refreshing view on a similar issue at Baen.com lately:
http://www.baen.com/library/
And those books are really fantastic if you like SF - Especially the Honor Harrington series starting with “On Basilisk Station”… (The microsoft reader is really good for reading on a Laptop :wink: )

Cheers! :bowdown:

#362

Thanks for the tips guys :thumbsup:

Thomas, that link to baen.com is excellent. This is also how I feel about the matter and this has just cemented it for me… thanks :thumbsup: In fact, I’m about to be involved in an online content marketing project and this is part of the strategy.

#363

Ah - cool it helped :slight_smile:

For me, the text on Baen also cemented my general feeling on the matter, since they actually make good money with that approach, besides “uncriminalizing” their customers.

In fact, I heard all the music I like “for free” first, be it on the radio, in a club or on a tape from a friend. Most authors I know from books I borrowed, be it from friends or from a public library…

I just hope the current raging idiocy about Digital Right Management etc. will soon enough die out. The day I whistle something in the bathtub and are billed for the tune is the day where music will die.
Making your customers into criminals will not make them give any money to you happily in the long run. Things like the root kit from Sony/BMG are just unbelievable.

In germany they really outdid themselves with a mobile prison cell where you could “testdrive” what will happen to you if you download stuff from the web… :rolleyes:
http://www.hartabergerecht.de/index.php?id=63&L=0

Well, there is definitely no restriction on the amount of stupidity those people posses :wink:

Cheers,

#364

Whistling eh? and making bubbles?

#365

Hi Paul, how is the project going? Are you still rendering?

/ Svante