Small New Trickjump Video

(Sick Boy) #1

I threw some new tricks together for some friends, thought I might as well pimp it here :moo:

feature list:

  • Roofjumping, trickwalking and more ! Locations: Fueldump, Goldrush, Caen and Desert Temple
  • Oldschool minimalistic movie concept with no fancy editing, effects or cool transitions at all !
  • Bandwidth-friendly download: only 50MB !

grab here:
http://www.savefile.com/files/2459640

(Kendle) #2

Nice, I like trickjump movies cos it’s a skill I know I’ll never come close to acquiring.

(Sauron|EFG) #3

Great jumping as always Sick Boy, but I want more! :smiley:

(nUllSkillZ) #4

:eek: :eek2: :eek3:

(carnage) #5

wow, nice canyon jumps

ime of to try that fuledump jump

(Loffy) #6

What codec is it?

(Pytox) #7

Do you have more videos? :slight_smile: Its done well!

(Sauron|EFG) #8

DivX5.0, but it plays perfectly with XviD as well.

(Ragnar_40k) #9

What fps do you use Sick Boy?

PS: You missed (a simple) one:

(Sick Boy) #10

Yeah plenty more roofs to jump on in caen :slight_smile:

The codec is divx 5.1.1

Yeah I’ve made 3 others, the Etmoves series. Here’s number 3 and 2. 1 is pretty obsolete by now :wink:

(DarkangelUK) #11

Caen reminds me of Big Guns RTCW map… you can run across the whole thing and not touch the ground once.

(MindgamE) #12

Nice vid Sick Boy!

(Shaderman) #13

Very sick, boy :smiley:

(Loffy) #14

You make rare but excellent films, Sick Boy. Marvelous stuff. I’m impressed, both by the jumps and by the film-making skills. I’ve done a couple of frag movies so I know how much time and effort it takes.
By the way, you could write down a simple step-by-step manual of “how I work, when I do my films” text. Just a few lines of text so we can get some insight to the art of compressing.
Anyhow, great films! I have them on my hard-drive and I look at them once every 6th month or so, to get inspired. Frag movies (great ones, like Sick Boy’s) are adrenaline pumping!
//Loffy

(eRRoLfLyNN) #15

Excellent stuff again :slight_smile:

(DarkangelUK) #16

I actually like the idea of short movies. Since my movie more or less sunk like a brick, i may make a short one myself from the few demos i have of jumps that havent been found yet.

(Sauron|EFG) #17

Hey, I’ve seen your trickjump movie! :smiley:

I wouldn’t mind making a short trickjump movie myself if I had more than 1 original jump. :stuck_out_tongue:

(eRRoLfLyNN) #18

I’d love to see a good ‘out takes’ movie, of all the accidents that happen in games. I have a hard drive full of them! :stuck_out_tongue:

(fretn) #19

yeah, gold taken, prime a grenade and suddenly 5 teammates are hugging you, lots of fun :smiley:

ontopic: I’m at work cant watch it now :frowning:

(Sick Boy) #20

Thanks for the compliments, but I don’t regard my own stuff as groundbreaking in terms of editing :wink:

In fact, I get lazier with each movie, and use less and less programs :smiley:
I don’t even use the cool additions in etpro as scripted cams and timed scripts

This one was created with only virtualdub, and paintshop for putting text on the still shots.

As for compression, you got to start with screenshots of the right size. I recommend 512384 and 640480. Anything more is overkill, 400*300 is acceptable if you give it enough bitrate to look good.

The important thing is to set as heavy antialiasing when taking the shots as your videocard can handle. This really helps a lot for both compression and image quality. It’s what makes the low resolutions still look good.

I compress each scene separately with single pass compression (again, lazyness). You got to encode each scene a few times with different bitrates or quantizers. Then you pick the one that looks the most acceptable for it’s filesize (and the quality you’re looking for) to keep the final size down. With still camera shots you should go for really high quality as the filesize won’t be influenced much, with a moving cameraview you should lower the quality or your scene will eat too much space. The movement takes care that the low quality isn’t that noticable (like a blur effect).

All you need for this is a codec and virtualdub, which you can also use to tie all the scenes together and mux audio in. You can’t do effects or transitions with virtualdub though, you need video editing software like vegas or premiere for that.

I hope this was usefull to anyone :wink: