A lightsaber machinima

In celebration of 30 years of Star Wars, here is a little fan made machinima. Hope you enjoy it!

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zigz, you need to re-render this video.

its pretty large to start. Also, I can't open this thing in anything other than VLC. Quicktime doesn't recognize it, even Adobe Premiere crashes when I try to open the file.

I was worried that there would be some problems with the mpeg format. I've rendered it again and placed it on the youtube site. It's a lower resolution, but I think this will work:

Click to launch youtube

Thank you Geuis,

Zigz

if you re-rendered it, give me a direct link to that.

you should use blip.tv instead of youtube. you'll keep the original quality pretty much and it puts it in a flash and original format

OK, I didn't actually rerender it. I just uploaded the mpeg to youtube, and they converted it to a smaller resolution one. What output settings do you use for premiere?

I've tried outputting to mov format in order to stream it into sl, but during quick scenes the colors bleed, which is why the mpeg format was used originally.

Let me give that blip.tv a shot.

if you're doing Adobe Premiere, I'll tell you what I do (and it works good).

Export in Premiere as an uncompressed AVI.

Get Quicktime Pro, its only like $30 and well worth it.

Re-export as an mp4 or mpeg from quicktime using h.264

Nice small file, excellent quality.

Yes, I do have quicktime pro... let me try your settings.

brb

So I tried the recommended settings with quicktime pro, but the results came out a little blurry during the camera movements:

http:www.secondframe.net/video/Sabers.mp4

The good thing about the mp4, though, is at only 5mb its an extremely fast download.

Also, uploaded the original mpeg to blip.tv. Its a little bit sharper... but darker, lol.

bliptv: http://blip.tv/file/207440

Great way to show off your animations/wares to your clients.... something we at WBA have been doing since early October last year.. nice to see other examples of the craft

Will have to keep an eye out for your productions. Always trying to glean a little knowledge from those who have been before.

Some examples of our work can be seen here http://www.wba-advertising.com I liked your style approach to making an action movie... very well directed.

Very nice AWM. I think those are great for people who want to shop online, and for store owners to stream a little something extra into their in world stores.