SH3 movie for you.
 

As an introduction to an online sim community I belong to I made the first in what I hope will eventually be a series of SH3 movies, showing off the various aspects of the sim.

Link.

It's a little scruffy in places, but not too bad. I made the decision to not do too much post-process on the clips, just a little minor contrast adjustment. This first clip was originally to have some engagements, sinkings etc but the music eventually set the content.

Let me know what you think.

Well Done :up: nice touch on the music from (ALIEN)

Thanks :) originally there was going to be a sighting, engagement & sinkings etc but the music didn't suit it, it suited showing the serenity, confinement, scale of the ocean and a stormy sea. But as an intro it's fine, I'll probably do an engagement next.

Loved it! :up: :up: :up:

Please make more! :yep:

If you do a action one how about the music from (ALIENS) :up:

Great movie well worth a watch :up:

Well going back on patrol now you have wetted my appitite wish me look :cool:

Cool Movie :up:

:sunny: way cool :rock:

Got nothing to add to that one. Very nicely done. It's hard watching these ar work, because the next thing I want to do is strap me into a sub and go out to sea ... ;)

Whats the deal with this download link?!? The first 5megs are fast and then it slows to a snails pace. Have tried a dozen times with every mirror possible??!? Is there another link somewhere?
:hmm:

Am I the thread killer or what?! Don't everybody trip over yourselves trying to answer at once! :up:

http://rapidshare.de/files/15293351/SH3Film1.avi.html

Needs DivX or XviD codec.

What codec/player is needed to see this movie?

Apple Quicktime:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/player/win.html

Thnx

Wow, thanks for the other download site. I had the same problems Bonfleck had, and I just gave up.

Now, is it just my computer or does everyone else see all those little 'digital' boxes when viewing the movie. Other than that, I liked it. I gotta learn how to do that stuff. :up:

Yeah sorry 'bout that, but it should be just the low-contrast underwater shots that are like that right? It's a consequence of using compression to keep the file sizes down. It gives good results for high-contrat colourful parts but is pretty poor on the other stuff. I don't know too much about how to compress efficiently, only that DivX is an accepted standard for this and that I got the file size down to an acceptable size.

I usually work in full DV resolution and there's no boxieness there :)

You must have used a very old DivX version!?! It reports a standard MPEG4 compression, did you use DivX 3.x?

PS: Please check your PM.

Thanks Gizzmoe! I knew you would come through for me! :rock:

I just watched it. There is way too much compression on that movie. Don't be afraid to render it with a better codec and get that file size a little higher. It's only 16 megs right now so its more important that you get the video looking a bit better than trying to keep the file size so small. The underwater scenes you can't even tell what your looking at.