Commercial Piece for VIO in SL

This is a short intro vid for a friend who's starting a business in SL.

http://one.revver.com/watch/289250

I used revver for this one which I find better than blip.tv, although
there is an approval process. One added nicety is that they also
encode a Quicktime version which can be then played in SL.

-Infrared

Looks a good promo vid... did you use joystick flycam much?... looks like zoom, but still effective.

All joystick...with a somewhat broken old joystick. =)

I hardly put the effort, time or diskspace that you did for
the wedding video...also the original audio clip I used
had problems. I just keep trying.

One thing I'm noticing more and more is that videos I
consider effective and captivating change scenes quickly
without transitions (fades) every two or three seconds...
as opposed to these longer takes I usually use...but for
an intro of a facility it seems OK.

- Infrared

It was certainly effective in its conceptual requirements and to be applauded.

Striking the balance between quality of the movie and or music track is a fine line at best, especially as the stream runs alongside SL's client taking bandwidth and CPU/ram etc, before being rendered into the client on the fly. To high an degree of either,will effectively make the rendering software (in this case sl's client) wait for the one with the greatest priority, to lead the way.
Personally, I strike the balance between what is acceptable for the movie, and make the music 'fit' using compressions on both to give me as close to less than 100kbps data rate. 44,100htz soundtrack at 32-64kbps data rate is my benchmark. If there is sufficient data rate left below the ceiling of 100kbps, then I'd prefer to apply that to the movie quality. Most PC setups would hardly notice the difference in sound quality above 64kbps for the most part.

We don't normally encourage our clients to utilise sound in our movies, as the average users will enable music streaming before movies, and it will simply clash. There are exceptions to every rule, but unless the movie's theme includes the absolute need, why waste the bandwidth.