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Title: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: josephoenix on June 02, 2006, 05:50:28 am
Ladies, Gentlemen, and Others... the moment you've all been waiting for! Waiting a grueling two days may have been hard, but I promise it's worth it. Behold, the first PS-MC PlaneShift Music Video!
...
Wait. I can't embed flash here...


Click Here (http://ps-mc.com/files/movie/index.html)
If you do not have Flash Player 8, you can still watch it.
Use VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) to open this (http://ps-mc.com/files/movie/mvid.ogm).

The Intro music is by Aiselyn Kyrseli.
The actual song is "Evil Ways" by Santana.
The credits music is the "PlaneShift Main Theme" by Bruno Lagarde.

Comments, critiques, curses, all welcome.

josePhoenix
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: DaveG on June 02, 2006, 06:02:00 am
Cool.  :)
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: lanser on June 02, 2006, 06:05:56 am
Great jose, but you have way too much free time :D
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: josephoenix on June 02, 2006, 06:07:38 am
Thanks DaveG, lanser.

@Lanser: thing is... it's a case of I -had- too much free time. Then I used it all up working on this for 4 hrs at a time. :P

josePhoenix
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Kayden on June 02, 2006, 06:13:35 am
This absolutely rocks! :) So funny...
It makes PS look really good, too—seriously, you should put together an official promotional video... :)
--Nilaya
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Vengeance on June 02, 2006, 06:56:30 am
Way to go guys!  This is a cool fan video...  probably the first EVAR! for PlaneShift.  I've been watching these for years made in other MMORPG's and I love it now to see one made with PS world and characters.

Nice song choice too, btw. :-)

Ok PS community, jose and his friends have thrown down.  What kind of video can you come up with?

- Venge
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: zorbels on June 02, 2006, 06:58:49 am
 :woot: Jose the video is awesome! I had a great time, and your a great director. Make more, please.  \\o//  
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Torzigg on June 02, 2006, 07:03:08 am
Like I said in IRC, great video!
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Karyuu on June 02, 2006, 08:24:37 am
That was pure awesome! Totally worth all the time and effort spent on it :] And Nilaya is right - it definitely shows off the game. I'm going to be begging you and everyone to make more of these!
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: neko kyouran on June 02, 2006, 08:39:04 am
I guess I'll be the "evil one" and not agree.  Don't get me wrong, it was a good watch and all, but its missing something truelly all great movies have.  Out takes.  Everyone enjoys comedy.  A little of the camera man dying unexpectantly while the 'you can't do that, you are dead' message pops up here and there, or maybe after the zoom up of the big tower you can faintly see someone driving off it, or after the bit when its spinning around in circles showing off hydlaa, maybe the screen goes wobbly and you see the camera man fall down from the statue (I'm assuming it was standng on the statue), a little chuckel of sorts would be icing on the cake.

All in all, really good, keep up the good work.  :)
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Waylander on June 02, 2006, 09:16:41 am
Haha, I love you Jose and I always will :P

Very nicely done, my friend.  To you and all those who contributed, you have my respect.
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Arangol on June 02, 2006, 12:24:29 pm
Really good choice of song. Love the movie  :)
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Suno_Regin on June 02, 2006, 12:34:51 pm
Are you guys ever going to tell me when you're about to do these things? Seriously, I'm missing out on way too much. -.-
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: dying_inside on June 02, 2006, 12:50:09 pm
Haha, genius!
Props for that, most definatly. very nice. Should replace the movbie on the main site. Make a hell of alot better impression.
And was that chainmail I saw?
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: rast on June 02, 2006, 01:24:35 pm
very nice :) keep it up...hope to see a promotional video ;)
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: ou8i8uo on June 02, 2006, 02:37:15 pm
Right on JosePhoenix! That turned out pretty cool.  8)
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Lordbug on June 02, 2006, 04:22:02 pm
One word:
AWSOME!

It definately shows off the PS world. I love the part where the female Ynwnn goes after the dwarf and then then she's running away from the rogue :D
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: josephoenix on June 02, 2006, 04:32:22 pm
Quote from: dying_inside on June 02, 2006, 12:50:09 pm
Haha, genius!
Props for that, most definatly. very nice. Should replace the movbie on the main site. Make a hell of alot better impression.
And was that chainmail I saw?

Yeah it was chainmail xP All the actors on my server had full GM access, so Sisilam spawned herself some armor.

And two calls for a promo video? Hmmm. I must think about this.

josePhoenix
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: LigH on June 02, 2006, 09:38:01 pm
:( The video crashes any other DirectShow Media Player except VLC (which uses own decoders). :(

Looks like the OGM container is not valid. After re-multiplexing the file with VirtualDubMod to a Matroska Video (MKV), it then worked well with MediaPlayer Classic (by Gabest), ffdshow and Haali Media Splitter.

I wonder why you used "DIV3" (the old buggy DivX 3 codec) as setup for the VLC video encoder. I would probably have preferred XVID or even AVC1 (H.264)...
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Suno_Regin on June 02, 2006, 09:45:43 pm
Tell me next time you do these things, so I can join in. I'm tired of missing out on all the fun stuff. At least talk about it a little before making it, instead of hiding it from the public. It's a cool video, I just wish to be a part of it.
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Karyuu on June 02, 2006, 09:54:15 pm
Aw, he just wanted it to be a surprise :3 I'm sure later ones will involve more people and discussions will be fully public.

*hint hint Jose* :3
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: AryHann on June 02, 2006, 10:20:09 pm
Jean and Joan and Who knows who!
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: josephoenix on June 02, 2006, 10:37:23 pm
Quote from: Karyuu on June 02, 2006, 09:54:15 pm
Aw, he just wanted it to be a surprise :3 I'm sure later ones will involve more people and discussions will be fully public.

*hint hint Jose* :3

Aww Karyuu... do I have to? :\ I like surprises. That is to say, I like making surprises... I don't hold with anyone else keeping secrets.

@AryHann: Indeed! :D

josePhoenix
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Karyuu on June 02, 2006, 10:45:35 pm
I don't know, people like it :} It would be nice to involve the entire community (or as much of it as possible) in a similar project sometime.
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: ThomPhoenix on June 02, 2006, 11:09:23 pm
Great job JosePhoenix! We need more of these movies people!
By the way, what program did you use to capture the movie?
PS has a built in filming feature, but it creates gigabytes size files, so it's not really usable.
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: josephoenix on June 02, 2006, 11:29:59 pm
Yeah, nuppelvideo sucks :P I used fraps for this. Slows it down alot, but not as much as csmovierecorder... plus, I'm used to slow frame rates :X
So it was a mix of psclient (obviously) + fraps (for recording) + VLC (putting the planeshift music into mp3) + Adobe Premiere 6.5 (editing and suchlike) + Macromedia Flash 8 (making the credits, and then the player) + virtualdub and VLC again to make the OGM

josePhoenix
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: ThomPhoenix on June 02, 2006, 11:37:24 pm
Not too bad  ;)
But did you buy Fraps? Because I always thought you have to pay to make fraps record longer than 1 minute or something.
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Kixie on June 03, 2006, 03:32:32 am
Nice vid. I didn't understand what was happening half the time, but some of the shots like the statue to deathrealm shot were great. Nice going! :thumbup:
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: LARAGORN on June 03, 2006, 04:28:47 am
Great job \\o// Luved it  :thumbup:
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Suno_Regin on June 03, 2006, 04:30:50 am
Quote from: josephoenix on June 02, 2006, 10:37:23 pm
Quote from: Karyuu on June 02, 2006, 09:54:15 pm
Aw, he just wanted it to be a surprise :3 I'm sure later ones will involve more people and discussions will be fully public.

*hint hint Jose* :3

Aww Karyuu... do I have to? :\ I like surprises. That is to say, I like making surprises... I don't hold with anyone else keeping secrets.

@AryHann: Indeed! :D

josePhoenix

Well at least tell me when the secret meeting's held :P
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Csophae on June 03, 2006, 07:24:33 am
Joseeeeee! I love it! You did an awesome job, hope to see more of these from you!
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Einnol on June 03, 2006, 04:29:51 pm
Quote from: josephoenix on June 02, 2006, 05:50:28 am
Waiting a grueling two days may have been hard, but I promise it's worth it.
Only two days!   :o  I would love to see what you could do in a week.   :D

Fantastic job.  Loved every second of it.
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: SuburbanPlankton on June 03, 2006, 05:59:09 pm
Rises from his seat and applauds

BRAVO!!!

Encore!  Encore!!!

Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Ralas on June 08, 2006, 04:25:16 am
I finally got to see it!  I had the brilliant idea to watch it at work, where I have highspeed and windows, neither of which do I have at home.  This is awesome, Jose!  And I finally understand why you changed my name--I had no idea what song you were using.  If you ever want to do anything like this again, I'm down, time permitting.
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: dying_inside on June 08, 2006, 08:41:57 am
Quote from: josephoenix on June 02, 2006, 04:32:22 pm
Quote from: dying_inside on June 02, 2006, 12:50:09 pm
Haha, genius!
Props for that, most definatly. very nice. Should replace the movbie on the main site. Make a hell of alot better impression.
And was that chainmail I saw?

Yeah it was chainmail xP All the actors on my server had full GM access, so Sisilam spawned herself some armor.

And two calls for a promo video? Hmmm. I must think about this.

josePhoenix

*excited shiver* OooooOOoooOOooOHHH.......
Hehe, think about it and then say yes mister. You know you want to.  ;)
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Peacer on June 09, 2006, 08:14:14 pm
nice :D... tell me next time there is a movie, i'd like to go as actor ;)
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Shooree on June 11, 2006, 09:31:08 pm
 :detective:
really nice. The effort and dedication you've all put in just shines through. It is of penultimate importance that you continue to create this sort of content, for it shows just what the word "community" really means.
The technical aspects of the craft of filmmaking will unravel themselves only with practice, which is not to say that this particular video lacks them in entirety. Several very interesting moments have caught my attention and made me smile, indeed.
 I sincerely hope that we weill be seeing more of such creative content in the future.

wtg!  :thumbup:
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Nilrem on July 03, 2006, 07:34:50 pm
Very curious to see, indeed.

It's cheerful. I like the choice of the song too.  :thumbup:
The only thing was resolution... perhaps Ligh is right and you used a too old Divx codec, or perhaps you'd start a paypal thingy to have a better graphic card ;)

I know I should recommend Xvid and all as it is open source...
but I recently found about DrDivx, and it's pretty easy to use to have avis compressed with Divx. Besides, it's also in alpha development, and, while it uses a codec that isn't opensource, the program in fact is, perhaps you'd like giving it a try. Just a suggestion :P

Last thing: Big cheers on having tried to really use the song, I mean with the lyrics and also rythm, I think the effect achieved is really good.  \\o//
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Ahriman on July 05, 2006, 04:58:57 pm
VERY good. AThe music matches the viceo  ;D
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: Thoughtcrime on July 06, 2006, 07:38:48 pm
What's next, a PS Viking Power Metal video?
Title: Re: PS-MV: Evil Ways
Post by: SovHed on July 10, 2006, 11:40:47 am
aye, that was indeed a good vid, good job jose. I do second the notion that you have too much spare time tho :P
keep it up  \\o// \\o//