SW Episode III - Reign of the Dark Side (* unfinished project *) — Page 23

Woo! just saw the clip of mace vs palps in the darkness! love it!

Still working on the edit, but that dont mean I dont have time for alittle fun here and there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCO6gmr-c8A

LOL

Things are going good. Had a major setback, but it was one that I brought on myself.

After upgrading my computer, and adding a new Hard drive so I could then install windows 7 64 bit and have access to After effects CS5. All my files were saved and I continued to edit the movie. The problem was that running with my old hard drive acting as a slave pretty much slowed down Sony Vegas to a stand still for some reason.

After balancing out the pros and cons, I decided to save my rips to an external hard drive. Reinstall a fresh copy of Windows 7. And restart the movie from scratch. Seeing as how I was planning to redo all the special effects anyways. So pretty much I restarted the edit.

The plus of all this is that now Vegas moves at an amazing faster pace. And I'm able to better sort out all my files, which means more editing, and less looking for files on a old hard drive.

At the pace that I was going before restarting the project, rendering a 1 min clip in Vegas would take up to 30 min due to the fact that Vegas would have to search for the files it needed on the slave hard drive. Now that 1 min clip renders in just over a min. So in the long run. Restarting from scratch will mean that this edit will be completed faster now. And Ill be able to stay focused on each scene.

Before wiping the project. I would be like "Ok I want to work on this shot tonight. So let me render a clip so that I can work on it in After Effects." By the time the clip would finish. I was no longer wanting to do the work.

Now I can render what I want to work on in 1-2 min, and right away get started on doing he effects shots. So for me, I'm excited.

Currently I have the movies cuts 90% complete. (Thats just the cuts, not special effects.) I still have a few things that may change cut wise depending on what special effects I can pull off. Special effects shots I started working on late last week, and there going along well. I learned alot the first time, and now I have better tools to do the job faster. As I do the effects shots I'll be sending preview clips to Angel for his blessings and for his good eye at picking out bad spots.

So in short, it'll get there. I just want to make sure it's the best damn Episode 3 edit ever.

Cs5 is far better, I really cant explain how much better in words.

The roto tool is amazing also, tho I'm still new to it. I'm sure there are a few tricks about it that im missing. As with everything else I've used in AE overall, the more I use it the better the results.

I'm always scanning for more tutorials, picking up new info along the way.

Will you stop breaking your computer and do some work please!! looking forward to this :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB2YtmIliXI

2nd draft attempt at darkening the escape pod. The first shot inside the pod is not done, cause it might be removed from the edit

3rd attempt at the escape pod. More lit up buttons will be masked to show thru shortly. The idea I'm shooting for is keeping the inside of the pod, alittle bit of a mystery. Let me know if you guys have any ideas, to help this along.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0PKjyheZhw

Edit. hmm it seems that youtube isnt doing the darker parts justice. The actual file dont look quite as dark. Hope it dont come across and to crappy looking to you all.

ben_danger said:

have you tried changing the bridge lighting from green to white? it fudges the screens up a bit, but the floor lighting looks really good when you try it.

And white lights make for a more Star Warsy look.

Ahh the bridge lighting , well I posted a clip of what Im doing there a few pages back. Here it is again....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_LazPANYN0

Some of the colors might be changed to white for the final cut tho. Depends on how deep I wanna go into the effects for the bridge scenes.

Maybe alittle something like this, with more white lights, like the upper set of lights on the divider wall

I still prefer the white version.. Reminding that less color resembles coldness and looks/feel more OT. Plus less rotoscoping work :D

-Angel

Ok Angel, you talked me into it 8) For the record, this was talked about a ton of pages back, Angel made his bid to go all white, but I went with the red. But after looking it over again, Angel has his revenge 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag5ItWDN0Ko

Hoooly crap..

I thought it would look good but this looks ace!

Toned down brings the good cold empire's bridges.

wow! When will you release the next video? :D::D:D

-Angel