Did my final preview today and the client approved with minor changes. whoooot 
Mainly choosing different sports photos since some of the existing pics are politically too controversial.
Now for final render for which I’ve organized 2 x dual Xeon with 2GB RAM each running on UPS over weekends and after hours. I’ll use the pulled dongle trick to render.
The client now has a timing master for doing audio final mix, so I’ll be able to post a final render with a sound track.
Woot!!! Great work Paul!!
My deepest respect for you. I am really looking forward to seeing this project in a final version. :bounce:
I second that. Makes me feel I should be able to tackle the things that’ve been keeping me from doing my film in messiah.
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.
Got end-client approval.
They love it.
Only a tiny change to the photographs used in the one part of the sequence. Now for final render, comp and delivery…
No wonder (except that you never know with clients), because it looks fantastic.
Congratulations!!!
Thanks guys. 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!
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?
ROFL
Have ever seen this. Someone not releasing the full material although he wanted to?
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:
Cool! Something new to put on my reel! 
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. Bring it on!
Give it a watermark, like your name or logo used as a displacement layer in AFX, full res but unusable for gsuttors showhijacking :D.
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…
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.
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…
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!