The Ballad of Mal & Inara (Fan film)

POSTED BY: Jaron95
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 06:45
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JUBELLATE

Saturday, October 15, 2005 4:18 AM

Terrific, bravo!!!!!

I love it

THEPYRO

Saturday, October 15, 2005 7:15 AM

That is SO AWESOME, very nice work. I have a question though, i really want to get into this kinda stuff(i.e. vid. editing and such)where'd you learn to do it, or anyone else that knows how, same question, and also what software do you use? Thaxs!

The Pyro - to lazy to write the leet i usually do.

JARON95

Saturday, October 15, 2005 8:01 AM

Wow, thanks guys! :)

If you have time, let me know what you DIDN'T like about it, so I can do better work in the future. :)

For technical details, I used FairUse - http://www.fairusewizard.com - to pull scenes from the DVD. It rips and caches the whole data stream and lets you choose to export whatever clips you like as XviD or DivX AVI's.

Then I used Windows Movie Maker to put it all together. I find it's pretty easy to use, but it has a lot of limitations. It gave me some real trouble in this video, especially with the Firefly logo (didn't come out how I pictured it in my head) and the scenes that fade to and from sepia tone. (Technical details: I had to make two copies of the same clip and set one to Sepia Tone. Then I faded them together, but I had to match up the starting frame of the second clip with the same frame in the original clip as close as I could. Still, it's rewarding to squeeze as much functionality as possible out of such a simple editor as WMM and see the end result come out fairly decent.)

As for editing tips & ideas, I got a lot of inspiration from the work done over at http://www.animemusicvideos.org. I've been downloading way too many files from that site lately, and the how-to guides are pretty insightful. "Phade's Guide to Good Anime Music Videos" has a lot of great info for beginners and experts alike.

Hope that helps!

PHAEDRA

Saturday, October 15, 2005 8:30 AM

I'd like to add to the wave of applause, just amazing. One of my favorite fan vids. Nice job!!

Phaedra (a bad luck name)

THEPYRO

Sunday, October 16, 2005 3:13 AM

thanks Jaron.....this helped, and Karen too. As soon as i get into it and make some totally sweet clips ill be sure to let you guys see 'em! lol

The Pyro - 53r3n1ty! F1R3FLY!

BROWNCOATFAN1

Sunday, October 16, 2005 11:40 PM

just click where it says link and that should work. or maybe you have to have windows media player installed

PINGJING

Monday, October 17, 2005 12:16 AM

Jaron95, I have been waiting for someone to make this video. I would have made it myself, but haven't the time, and anyway, I couldn't have made it better than this. I love the vid, I love Mal and Inara, and I love angsty love. So, again, bravo!

Julia

JARON95

Monday, October 17, 2005 3:44 PM

Thanks again for all the feedback, guys. :) My roommate wants me to make another one with Kid Rock's "Cowboy" song. I have some ideas for that one, probably going in more of a comedy direction, but I'll post a link once I get it done.

KIORIA

Monday, October 17, 2005 5:56 PM

Love it! Oh God, do I ever. I cried. More, please.

KAZZAHDRANE

Monday, October 17, 2005 6:13 PM

Ok I usually avoid these sort of things like the plague but I was in a kinda shippy mood and well I really loved this video :)

Haven't watched through the series for a while (people borrowing the DVDs and watching them!) and this reminded me of all those little moments.

Very well done, let's see one celebrating the action elements of the series.

"Let's be bad guys" would be a good title :D

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