Movie > Hibernia - A call for unity

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kameh

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Hibernia – A call for unity

File size: 17.5Mb zipped (33.9Mb uncompressed)
Play time: 2minutes 45 seconds
Format: Mpeg
Music: Karl Orff - O Fortuna

>> http://www.halfmad.com/camelot/videos/Hibernia.zip <<

Edit: mirrored it here as halfmad was slowing right down:

>> http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~penman/Hibernia.zip <<

Here is my second movie, it’s vastly better than the first and took some 45 hours and 11Gb of disk space to create. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it for you. Hibernia feels splintered just now. Alliances are barely talking to each other, we’re on the same side, we should be friends and not enemies.

I ask the leaders of the guilds and alliances to rethink their agendas, the stability of Hibernia and it's relics may be at stake in the coming days and weeks. As leaders you are in the best position to make peace within the realm and destroy our enemies with a unified army of tree huggers :)

I know it’s a large download, but I couldn’t make it any smaller. This film was inspired by

All comments welcome..

P.S. Special thanks to Palan of Silent Death for letting me almost get him killed at the grovewoods :)

*Kami hopes someone out there downloads it*
 
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llixeraxu

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Downloading it now...seen some of your others...if its close to being that good its worth the d/l time...18% and counting !
 
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Armolas

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Nice movie :)

Not quite sure what you mean, I am in the CF alliance, and I still get on with ppl from CBH (not sure who else is in thier alliance).

We do communicate, but obviously pms are, well, a bit more private than /as messages.

But then maybe I just don't know whats going on :)
 
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kameh

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About the alliances (was very tired last night when I wrote it). I'm sure we're all aware of the danger the albs are now that midgard have lost thier last relic. There's only 1 target left for the albions to attack and that's us. I very rarely see the alliances planning things together and although individuals get on great there's still very much a sense of secrecy at the higher levels. Just last week there was a relic attempt by the CF alliance that we were forbidden to tell anyone else about. Word got around eventually to the CBH alliance and before long we had some of them turning up to help...

Thats my point, the grunts like me are more than happy to help out "the other side" all we need now is the leaders to do this more often, they've shown time and again that they have the leadership and skill to do it afterall :)

I was an officer in Mist Wraiths before I took a few months off and the guild folded, not much has changed. I've spoken to several people from all alliances and the grunts want to fight side by side, we're not too fussed who's in charge as long as we get a chance to help :)

I'm very proud of that attitude, I didnt expect it. Just yesterday I was in a group with 6 different guilds, 2 different alliances represented, we had a lot of fun in emain. I think we'd have just as much fun on a relic raid ;)

edit: by the way llixeraxu I like your character graphic in your signature. I'd do something like that too but with my graphics skills... or lack of I think it'd look like my bard had set fire to one of his farts :rolleyes:
 
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old.Kainz

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Flamin Steven Speilberg wannabes! :m00: :m00:

*goes to download the movie*

Very nice indeed mate! I've not seen many daoc movies because most of them are damn huge, that one was class, loved the music and the speeded up flyby's through the hib landscape, top stuff!
 
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FredaOfAxiom

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Damn thats good :) Took nearly 2 hrs on cable but well worth the time. BTW my cables fook in case you think it too slow :p
 
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kameh

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I've been asked by a few people for this, it's about as much details as I can give:

Making DAOC movies

This post is just to show people how I make my DAOC movies, chances are that there are better, faster or easier setups than the one I use. But I’m very much still a newbie at this and learn so much every time I make one.

Step 1 – Record what you have on screen to the VCR

I liked this solution for 1 reason – no performance hit when playing the game. It also generally means smoother movies as there’s no writing to hard disk as it’s being recorded.

How do I..

My video card has 2 monitor outputs and a setting that allows you to “clone” the first screen (my monitor) to the second output (VCR). I have a small device called Trust televiewer that allows me to send this signal in PAL format to any VCR/TV, the device can also be used to split the signal from 1 monitor to 1monitor + TV/VCR if you have no secondary output on your video card.

Setting all this up was fairly straight forward, you’ll probably need to get a few cables especially if your VCR is SCART only like mine. Some tinkering may be needed to get the picture appearing clearly on the TV but if you have a basic knowledge of your PC and can work a VCR you’ll do fine :)

Your now able to record hours of continuous play, hit record and do whatever you want!

Step 2 – Capture what you recorded back to your PC

I use a Pinnacle DC10 video capture card, it’s not in any way the best on the market but at around £100 it was fairly cheap for a dedicated card that comes with all the software you need. The signal comes back from the VCR via a SCART to Composite video cable (you can get this from argos if you live in the UK from under £10).

The software I generally use just now is the same one that came with the DC10 card – Pinnacle studio 7. The software is very good with one problem.. it’s unbelievably unstable especially if your creating larger movies. I’ll be looking for an alternative capture/editing software for the next movie I make. There are a few things to remember when you capture your video.

1. Your movie will be more than 1 continual scene, if like mine it could be 30+ scenes stuck together with transitions. You can only add captures to the movie if they’re captured at the same frame rate as the first scene you add – if you start using a 25fps(PAL) clip you cant then add a 30fps clip later on.
2. Resolution – there’s no point in recording a clip at high resolution if the movie will be long and for distribution over the internet. People simply will not download 100Mb of movie that lasts 1 minute. By all means record it at a fairly high resolution but remember your computer has to be able to handle the larger files and of course you’ll run out of hard disk space quickly.
3. Brightness – Try to set the right contrast/brightness controls when you first record the clip, the main problem I have with recording DAOC at night is that it’s so dark at lower resolution you cant make anything out! Turn the brightness up a little, just enough so that figures etc are clear.
4. Naming clips – if your going to be recording a lot of indiviual clips/scenes name them clearing so you don’t lose track of what you have. You might also be able to use those clips later if you don’t on the movie your currently making.

Step 3 – Editing

Pinnacle Studio is really a newbie editing suite. Which is perfect for the likes of me. Text, etc can be added easily and transitions (fades) are done in a few clicks. I just wish it didn’t crash as often!

I did a lot of the more technical editing using a program called “ Media studio Pro 6” This is a few years old but it was the only one I had available to me. With this software the following becomes very easy, most of it had to be done because I hadnt taken things like my chat/menus into consideration when recording:

Resolution changing, changing clip FPS – I should listen to myself more often!, trimming the clip so that only the action is shown without menubars and chat boxes. There’s a lot more to the software but at the time making my Hibernia movie I had no need to use anything else.

Step 4 – Compiling the movie

I’m still learning this part as you’ll probably notice if you’ve seen my movies so I wont preach what I don’t know! Here’s some things I’ve learnt the hard way:

1. Try to keep transitions simple, complex or fancy ones can draw attention away from the action and have people focus on the fading between scenes!
2. Try not to have too many fast scene changes unless you really need to (fast paced music etc)
3. Watch the film, if your reasonably happy with it then watch it 3 or 4 times, pay attention to non-action elements like transitions and music.. is it in time with the movie, could you move a scene and make it work better with the music?
4. You don’t always need to have a fade or transition at all between scenes, some scenes naturally seem to work well together.
5. Don’t expect to get it right first time and never rush to the finish.
6. Mpegs are generally more compatible and smaller sized than most formats, there are WMF files also that are extremely compressed but not everyone can view these. Try to keep file sizes down, do you need the clip to be full screen resolution of would a small window be enough?
7. Turn off recording the soundtrack if you don’t have one! It should do this for you.. SHOULD ;)
8. Tweak the film, making scenes last a little longer or cutting them short can make a big difference to the over all feel of the movie.
9. Get your name on the movie, people will want to know who made it regardless of how good it is.
10. Music – try to have it fit the subject of your movie. Classical music is always good for DAOC :)

Links:

Trust Televiewer – http://www.puremotion.com/videoediting/reviews/hardware/trustteleviewer/
Trust Televiewer and DC10 can be bought from – www.scan.co.uk
Pinnacle – http://www.pinnaclesys.com
Pinnacle support for when it doesn’t fecking work – http://www.pinnaclesys.com/wwwsupport/Forums/uk/frameset.htm
 
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Son

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On the subject of Alliances not getting along, I really have no idea why people think that. And as for relic raid by our alliance that we didnt want told to CBH alliance, thats not quite true. I presume its the raid Censimillia tried to organise with 90 minutes notice to all concerned.
 
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kameh

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Sonny that wasnt meant as a flame, I think Censi does a bloody good job from what I've heard of his DF raids and with the time he had available pulled together a fairly good sized force.

If a group of 11 level 40-50 people can take a lightly defended keep in 20-25mins imagine what the biggest alliance on excalibur (CF) and the 3rd biggest (CBH) can do combined. together they have over 1500 players!

That's an awful lot of power for a bunch of tree hugging hippies :)

But I accept fully that raids take time to plan and even longer to gather the forces. But surely it'd be far more effective if both alliances worked together to do it?

We have some very good leaders in Hibernia and even better grunts, it's also a very friendly realm and one I enjoy being part of.
 
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Spamb0t

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hmpf .. that mirrored download stops halfway :eek:
(tried twice - didnt stop at the same size)

getting from halfmad now :eek:
 
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kameh

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Getting the same problem as you Kaor from the mirrored download, if someone else has webspace they can host it on can you upload it and post a link please? :(

I've uploaded it twice to nildram and both times it worked fine but downloads are stopping between 60-70% complete
 
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Novamir

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nice movie. good music, images.. but lacking slightly in comedy and making the movie "human" to make it perfect! :p

make more!
 
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Ensceptifica

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A very good movie indeed, but I don't see the alliance problem tbh. That is: CF and CBH get along fine, and same goes for CBH and Soul Reavers / Hearts of Fire afaik. Sure some guilds don't like eachother, but that's between them, not between alliances, and when the need is high, I trust all Hibernian guilds to set aside any differences and work together.

I DO think some RvR veterans are growing tired of leading and Hibernia could use some new people taking initiative AND the veterans supporting them.
 
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Kiros

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Anyone know the name of the song used in that video ? :)
 
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kameh

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Music: Karl Orff - O Fortuna

It's also on Excalibur the movie, very good little film made in the 80s :)
 
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old.Zarko

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New full time movie coming soonish?

Omg WD matey
 
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CBH_Popov

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Originally posted by kameh
Music: Karl Orff - O Fortuna
Click to expand...

BAH! we all know it's the Old Spice music, admit it you old farts :p
 
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kameh

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lol not seen an old spice advert in an awful long time so couldnt tell you Popov ;)
 
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old.Nol

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Um can't alliances support 50 guilds now? or is that a later patch?
 
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nicky-nook

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Very Nice Movie nice at points were the music told a story though i would like to see far more movies like to do with R v R..

Wel done Regards Nicky.
 
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Mirhen Morkir

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Nice one Kameh !

Looking forward to the next movie :)
 
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Whandall

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Very well done kameh. GIV MORE! :clap:

*cough* you need more elfes in your movies *cough*
 
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