Filming Friday-URGENT UPDATE

[Manic Velocity]

Location suggestion:

Heart o' the City Hotel

It's always held a special place in my heart.  No pun intended.

I think an awesome shot to do would be to have an angel standing on top of HotC, and do that oh-so-cool "scroll up" camera movement.  The camera would scroll up past the glowing HotC sign, stopping at whoever is on the roof, and get a shot of them talking on their cell phone and then hyper-jumping away.  It would be a kind of remake of the opening scene in The Matrix, where the camera scrolls down past the HotC sign to focus on the arrival of the agents.

[Broin]

Manic has claimed his spot in the Matrix and the style of camera shot.... Don't miss out on claiming yours  

[Anonymous]

Hmmmmmmmm, can someone inform me on how to do that scroll up shot. I really like it and would like to know. hehe

[Fuse]

I call the assassin moves and close-ups. and like I said, I'll have to pay Broin to make me my own flick. Or I can hold his Arbalest tree hostage. =)

[ArchNemesis]

Hmm...i claim anything else stealth wise... or at least being able to wear my casual non-buffed clothing ^_^

[Anonymous]

I claim anything you need Duelist or Aikido for...

[Manic Velocity]

Thanks Broin.  

Hmmmmmmmm, can someone inform me on how to do that scroll up shot. I really like it and would like to know. hehe

I'm assuming that it goes without saying that all of our fancy camera tricks are remaining within the confines of these faction walls?

Ok then.  Here's the step-by-step:

1.  Put your hyper-jump ability in your hotbar if it isn't already.
2.  Click and hold the left mouse button, or whichever button you use to select objects.
3.  Push the hotbar key on your keyboard that will activate hyper-jump.
4.  Continue to hold the appropriate mouse button, and move your mouse around.
5.  Move your mouse in the "up" direction until the camera movement stops.  This will put your camera directly above your RSI and make it parallel to the ground.
6.  When you have the camera facing the way you want it, let go of the mouse button and flick your scroll wheel back and forth.  This will raise and lower the camera.
7.  Experiment.

Sometimes certain placement of the cursor will cause the camera to scroll up automatically.  Obviously you can't scroll up too high if you are under a bridge or overpass.  To get back into normal camera mode, just click the mouse or hit the hyper-jump hotbar key.

It's a nice effect when filming, and I use it all the time to take screenshots of large areas.

[Jeyk]

As far as the female uniform goes, maybe we should see if Kayda remembers what the all black stuff he had on his character was, it looked quite badass.

[Fuse]

And please, if you know the first person view trick, keep that especially quiet.

[Anonymous]

If you need a duelist, or a rifleman/sniper, let me know.

[Broin]

Okay I have a major decision to make.  I just found out that FRAPS doesn't film at anything higher than 1024x860 (or whaterver it is).  Now my list video I filmed at the highest widescreent that I could but FRAPS knocked it down to like 860x530.  When I play the video through my system it appears okay and pretty much like the quality I get in game with the hightest setting.   I tried a short sequence with the game set at 1024x860 and I didn't like the way that it look in game, probably because I'm use to the higher setting.   However the filme didn't look that bad and in comparision to another exact same one filmed at the original setting seemed comprable.  So should I switch to 1024x860 or stick with what I got and know.  Please let me know whether the Halloween video was as good a quality when you viewed it as your in game video is and whether you think I need to swtich to the 1024X860.  I'll be in game in about 2 hours to get started.

[Bellthazor]

I'll be there, I will have Karate GM loaded for this, or i can load Kung-Fu GM, just let me know Broin. c ya on set... ;p

[Lithium]

I think that the halloween video quality would pass just fine.

The fact is the video they pick will probably be displayed on a projector for the staff. Many projectors, especially widescreen projectors oftern only have a rez of 854x480. 480 is also the number of lines on your TV screen. If they have a projector with higher rez which they very well may have then a higher rez could improve quality. But really a rez of 860x530 should be just fine. Considering that has more pixels than your 60" TV screen.

[Fuse]

The Holloween one was very nice quality. 10x better than many I've seen. I have to run to the store, but will be on about 5pm FA time.

[Manic Velocity]

I thought the halloween video was excellent quality.  Definitely surpassing most videos out there.  I can't help but wonder what the specs on your machine are, Broin.

Lithium pretty much covered it.  860x530 should be fine if they are showing the videos on a projector screen.  I'll be in-game in about an hour or so.  This is going to be sweet!