Vid: 'Serenity Horror Trailer'

POSTED BY: dreamsofthespider
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 04:10
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PIRATENEWS

Monday, March 6, 2006 11:14 PM

Smooth and spooky. Nice touch on the BW credits matching the fonts.

What programs did you use? Any bugs or glitches?How much RAM? CPU speed?

Which DVD did you use, fullscreen or widescreen?

Joss made it easy to chop his art into shiny clips.

Time for lunch.

Mmmm. Wife soup. I must have done good.
-Wash

FIREFLY SERENITY PILOT MUSIC VIDEO (VERSION 2)
Tangerine Dream - Thief Soundtrack: Confrontation
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/8912.php

DREAMSOFTHESPIDER

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 12:14 AM

I use Ulead VideoStudio 9 for all my editing. I really like it, but I haven't used anything else. The only glitch is my computer, which is near to full and sometimes my virtual memory gets low. The only thing I wish it had is the ability to mirror-flip clips and fade to white and maybe better titles. Beyond that I'm a complete moron and know not of these other things and glitches of which you speak. The only "bug" I ran across was in dl'ing it to begin with when I upgraded from 8 (*that* was a nightmare!)

For ripping I usually use DVD Shrink 3.2, but I ran across some major snags with the *fullscreen* (I thought that would fit the project size better. If I'd done widescreen, any effects would suddenly seem to be outside the "project area", at least that was my logic) Serenity DVD, so I turned to ...something else (DVD Decrypter, I think) that caused a lot of skips in the clips--no matter how many times I redid it. Same skips, same spots.

I finally found Magic DVD Ripper-- and while I have to rip the whole movie instead of just the bits I want like with DVD Shrink (I'm running out of memory, so this is a big issue for me), it's clean.

I take it you liked the vid? :D

~Tzegha

DREAMSOFTHESPIDER

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 3:25 AM

Needy, I cleaned up the transitional middle bit, and I think it works brilliantly! Thanks!

Right-click and save: http://www.dreamsofthespider.com/fanvids/Serenity/HorrorTrailer.wmv

~Tzegha

NEEDY

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 11:53 AM

I'm glad to hear it DotS (well how about that for an abbreviation), but unfortunately I can't view the video at the minute due to a exceeded bandwidth problem - I'll try again later

As for creating vids...

I've got a program called smart-ripper which snags the clips in DVD format (so they're huge files) but I haven't figured out how to convert. Someone at a Buffy site gave me a rundown of the program she uses and sent me links to a guide how to do it, but it seemed like a lot of work (including capturing the audio seperately if I remember correctly) but even without the audio, by the time the clips were converted to wmv, they ran at the wrong speed.
So... some problems

If you could tell me what you use to convert, that might help me on my way to creating my own vids

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Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny
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www.myspace.com/needsalt

DREAMSOFTHESPIDER

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 11:59 AM

damn, the month's not even halfway over! Guess I'll have to spring that extra fifty bucks to double my bandwidth. I'll link a YSI file after work today.

DVD Shrink is awesome, because it rips the clips to VOB files, and the very intricate "conversion" process is you renaming the VOB as an mpg. Voila! All done.

Here's a website that taught me how to use DVD Shrink (it's a breeze once you get familiar with it), although some steps don't quite match up:

http://www.johnaeryn.com/articles/2004/December/dvdshrink.ulead.html

~Tzegha

NEEDY

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 12:06 PM

Thanks!!!

Well thats just great - I think I'll be able to cope with that complicated renaming procedure

It's funny, a while back I used to take a load of screencaptures using PowerDVD, but was annoyed it saved them as BMP and took up way too much room. But there was no button to change the format... then I renamed the file it saved as (PDVD00.bmp to PDVD00.jpg) and that was it. I couldnt believe how simple it was. Bit annoyed though cos I had so many captures I had to convert individually or just delete

The John and Aeryn site (I'm a 'scaper too) looks like there are a lot of steps but I'm sure its a hell of a lot simpler than the one I tried with the 3 or so programs needed just to get the clips

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Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny
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www.myspace.com/needsalt

DREAMSOFTHESPIDER

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 5:37 PM

Your very much welcome!

Also, if you go to videohelp.com, you might be able to find freeware that converts, rather than re-ripping your clips. Right at the top is the search function with an example of "SVCD to DVD", just punch in whatever file type you have and what you want to convert it to. I don't know if this would be the same amount of work, if not more, than just re-ripping everything.

Don't be afraid of all those steps, it's just a very thorough set of instructions, and let me know if you need a hand (I seem to remember the instructions not *quite* matching up with the current version of DVD Shrink).

~Tzegha

DREAMSOFTHESPIDER

Thursday, March 9, 2006 12:17 AM

here's the YSI link:

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01GZ2JOEHQ80Q2WUV3LJ5JAKE9

and here's a direct link to the DVD Shrink site: http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/

also, for whatever reason, the clips I rip don't play unless I import them to my editor (Ulead)

~Tzegha

NEEDY

Monday, March 13, 2006 9:58 PM

sorry, I forgot to reply to this - too busy enjoying the video

I loved it, and I do think it works a lot better now

Thanks again for the info regarding making my own videos, I thought about doing one myself today but got sidetracked doing other things

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Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny
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www.myspace.com/needsalt

AZHEA

Friday, March 17, 2006 7:31 PM

Just checked out all your offerings, the ones I could find there (four of them? Please post links if there are more, please please please!) and I am impressed. Take that with a grain, as I wouldn't know how to do anything of what you did.

But, they were good, imho. A Tiny Grief Song was lovely. I too was bummed when Wash died. You captured his essense quite nicely!

When you do more, let us know. And thank you.

Edit: I just now saw where you did offer a link to all your stuff. Nice work, all of 'em!

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