I am currently busy writing the second draft of my new machinima movie. From time to time I check other sites like Stage6, GamerzTheatre and Machinima.com for other movies.
Recently Glowing Amraam posted another Lockon-movie. This guy is the Steven Spielberg of flight sim movies, so I added his movie to this blog, because believe me, you should not miss a single on of his movies.
Today I posted my latest movie. Yesterday I downloaded the F-16 XL from combatace and decided to make little movie on the spot.
WOE is much harder then LOMAC and Il-2 for movie making. The views are limited and although you can declutter the screen there are still some messages that pop up on the bottom of the screen. By zooming the image, I can block these messages out, but sometimes one slips through.
I initially had some fears about the frame rate (In il-2 and Lomac, movies are taped at a quarter of normal speed, to artificially increase frame rates by speeding up the images in vegas), but everything remained around 30 to 40 frames. Furthermore I discoverd the benefits ofDivx compressing. The initial 4 minute movie took a whopping 1 Gb in AVI format. This was by far the best format (and much better then in youtube). Converting to Divx i obtain a file of 51 Mb. Still too big and clumsy for Youtube but now I can post it on Stage6, which support Divx embedding.
For those who like to read stories instead of wathing them, a new AAR "VF-41" is available at SimHQ and on this blog.
For the movie fans, below the video you will find links to the several sites I posted the movie on.
Other places you can find this movie:
Stage6
YouTube
