SweHanzon

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Join date: 3-Aug-2006
Last activity: 17-Feb-2008
Posts: 73

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Post: #309239
Topic: Star Wars Prologue - Epic Prequel Edit (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309239/action/topic#309239
Time: 5-Feb-2008 8:57 PM

This seems like an exciting project =)

As for fade@24.0m (13 years ago), I would suggest that you cut to episode one before Yoda's last line there. It would seem more natural I think.

Post: #294984
Topic: Paint Wars: A New Hope
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294984/action/topic#294984
Time: 10-Aug-2007 8:05 PM

Cool! Anyone seen it yet?

Post: #294170
Topic: Paint Wars: A New Hope
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294170/action/topic#294170
Time: 31-Jul-2007 7:38 PM

I have been seeding both trackers since I uploaded them. The Demonoid torrent seem to be doing better than the PirateBay one though. I've been trying to get it onto wikiupload as well but it hasn't worked. Could you suggest a another good place for uploading this? (I don't use newsgroups)

This collaboration project is an interesting idea. I don't know if I would be able to oversee it, but I could probably help out.

Post: #294008
Topic: Paint Wars: A New Hope
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294008/action/topic#294008
Time: 30-Jul-2007 7:29 AM

It is up on demonoid now as well under the same name (not same tracker though).

Post: #293979
Topic: Paint Wars: A New Hope
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/293979/action/topic#293979
Time: 29-Jul-2007 10:17 PM

Well, finally, I managed to get a torrent up on the Pirate Bay. I'm not sure I'm allowed to post a link to it, but the torrent's called "Paint Wars DVD [PAL]". Should be easy enough to find, even for those droids in your archive.

Post: #290706
Topic: Paint Wars: A New Hope
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290706/action/topic#290706
Time: 18-Jun-2007 11:07 PM

Okedoke, editing and animating done. Currently trying to produce a decent video file. Will perhaps do a dvd version as well, with picture and audio of the highest quality, to make this release all the sillier

It'll all be out soon.

This is for Ziggy if he's still around: Please consider picking up this project again. It's such a crappy but yet excellent one, and deserves more than the eight-something minutes of video gotten out of it.

Post: #290637
Topic: NTSC to PAL
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290637/action/topic#290637
Time: 17-Jun-2007 7:51 PM

Andrew Kramer of videocopilot.net will be a good friend of yours if you like using Adobe After Effects =)

http://forums.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/fps/index.htm

Post: #290635
Topic: Paint Wars: A New Hope
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290635/action/topic#290635
Time: 17-Jun-2007 7:09 PM

Just as a heads up, I've resumed working on the video version of this. Shouldn't be too long now that I've finally got rolling again

Post: #290235
Topic: Subtitles.....help needed guys
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290235/action/topic#290235
Time: 13-Jun-2007 6:09 PM

All t'was used was photoshop and the type tool in it. Making a solid text, not too fat or too thin or too complicated. Have you had any more luck?

Post: #288467
Topic: New Clone Wars Trailer!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288467/action/topic#288467
Time: 29-May-2007 7:40 PM

"I mean... there's no sense to it. None. It's just empty action shots on top of each other "

It's...a....freaking...TEASER TRAILER. What exactly did you expect?

Well that was more of an estimate on how I think the show will turn out, based on this trailer and the latest we've seen from LucasFilm (Clone Wars cartoon and the "video game movie" RotS). And I was pretty much in shock over how silly I thought the trailer looked so I might've exaggerated a bit. But seriously, I do miss the mythic saga that Star Wars used to be. I feel it has transformed into some kind of senseless action monster, but that's just my opinion.

As stated though, fan edit-fodder is always welcome of course.

Post: #288316
Topic: New Clone Wars Trailer!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288316/action/topic#288316
Time: 28-May-2007 5:37 PM

Wow....

That has to be the silliest load of whatever I've seen in a long time. Long time.

I mean... there's no sense to it. None. It's just empty action shots on top of each other, and sequences which I'm sure even some Sith would consider unnatural. And on top of that, it looks like some 1990's made-for-children "learning can be fun" type computer games.

I'll avert my eyes on this one and keep my fingers crossed for the live-action show. Too bad.

Post: #287503
Topic: Creating an authentic looking crawl
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287503/action/topic#287503
Time: 22-May-2007 6:39 AM

The letters aren't to be skewed at all, only move the camera. As you can see in my screen grab (and which I forgot to mention) I usually put a reference clip underneath it all to compare so that it looks right. I'll go into this more elaborately when I get the time.

Post: #287259
Topic: Creating an authentic looking crawl
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287259/action/topic#287259
Time: 19-May-2007 7:16 PM

Originally posted by: caligulathegod

Originally posted by: SweHanzon
You can format the text pretty much as you want it in AE as well, but I think I had to search a little to find all the settings and such. I just love the simplicity of seeing the change immediately.

Anytime I ever tried it the justify button was grayed out and unusable. All of the tutorials I've ever seen that used AE directly just ignored it and the text was "ragged right".

Really? Hmm. It's been a while since I did a crawl. I'll have to look it up, but I know I got the text justified the way I wanted within AE.

The Mini Mini tutorial for AE7:
-Have a background image (still frame from just before the camera pan down to the planet)
-Look around originaltrilogy.com to find the right fonts for the logo and all the text.
-Make a new composition in AE. Put the background image there and add all the text and the logo. Also add a camera with default settings.
-Check the "make 3D" box for your layer with the crawl text. Move the camera so that the crawl text gets the right perspective. (Only change the camera, not the text.)
-Using keyframes, animate the Star Wars logo flying away from view. I simply scale it down. Same basic effect.
-Animate the text on the Y-axis, simply going from down to up. The tilted look is achieved by the camera you added earlier.
-Fade out the text when it's gone far enough.
-Celebrate your accomplishment with flutes and teddybears.

EDIT: justifying the text works fine for me. I uploaded a screen grab of what my composition in AE7 looks like:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d161/SweHanzon/AE7crawl.png

Post: #287227
Topic: Creating an authentic looking crawl
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287227/action/topic#287227
Time: 19-May-2007 12:41 PM

You can format the text pretty much as you want it in AE as well, but I think I had to search a little to find all the settings and such. I just love the simplicity of seeing the change immediately.

Post: #286938
Topic: Creating an authentic looking crawl
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286938/action/topic#286938
Time: 17-May-2007 5:32 AM

I've now got a pretty solid way of doing crawls using nothing but Adobe After Effects. I could write a simple tutorial for this if anyone's interested.

Post: #286733
Topic: MECO's rare ESB 10" record (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286733/action/topic#286733
Time: 15-May-2007 7:09 PM

It's not perfect, but I think they sound terrific! Thanks a lot for doing this.

Post: #285346
Topic: Forgive me for being stupid but...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285346/action/topic#285346
Time: 3-May-2007 10:30 PM

just a guess but if you by VTS mean video for DVD, that's the same as mpeg-2.

Post: #285297
Topic: Subtitles.....help needed guys
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285297/action/topic#285297
Time: 3-May-2007 3:32 PM

If you wanna have burnt in subtitles, just do an image file like the ones I sent you for the end credits to put on top of the video.

Have the text where you want it in the picture, and give the image an all-black background. Use the thingie in the program to remove the black and now you have a burnt in sub. You know how it works

At least I think this'd work.

Post: #268822
Topic: Sluggo's Star Wars Trailer Contest *Next contest begins April 25th*
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/268822/action/topic#268822
Time: 30-Jan-2007 7:00 PM

Argh. Time is not on my side. I had a really sweet idea for a "saga" trailer but work is work. How much later is "later"?

Post: #267054
Topic: Opening crawl needed
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267054/action/topic#267054
Time: 21-Jan-2007 2:05 PM

Alright, then I'll need the following info.

Time ?
Text ?
NTSC/PAL ?
And I need a background starfield if you want a particular one.

Post: #267047
Topic: Need help on this custom cover for ROTE...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267047/action/topic#267047
Time: 21-Jan-2007 1:29 PM

Yes TNR does indeed seem to be the real font, but for some reason I thought it looked a little off. I figured out what it was though. The ROTJ logo has the letters closer together. (poster). And have you tried putting "of" on top of "the"? Just a thought.

However now I'm just getting picky. It's improved a lot since the first one. Looking great now

Post: #266943
Topic: Opening crawl needed
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266943/action/topic#266943
Time: 20-Jan-2007 8:32 PM

I could do one. You need it soon?

Post: #266527
Topic: Need help on this custom cover for ROTE...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266527/action/topic#266527
Time: 18-Jan-2007 5:49 PM

Jonno's suggestion is a good one.

The new green you put on the backside looks great. A lot more balanced.

The unfocused shot of Wicket I was reffering to is indeed that menu screen cap. If that's the best one then so be it. It's ok.

If you have the font Trajan Pro, you could try using that instead of TNR. It looks more Star Wars-y.

And good call on removing the OCP logo. Just writing it looks more professional.

The frontside looks better as well. Were did you get that picture? It's perfect.

Post: #265914
Topic: Paint Wars: A New Hope
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265914/action/topic#265914
Time: 15-Jan-2007 3:44 PM

Oh crap, I got all excited about this. Well it's your choice, Ziggy.

Perhaps I'll begin working on my MS Paint skillz... ;-)

Post: #265323
Topic: Star Wars: Episode II - The Clone Wars Begin (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265323/action/topic#265323
Time: 11-Jan-2007 3:29 PM

Well thank you for digging this up stossmo

I really should get this over and done with now.

What happened was I ran into problems when trying to make a good DVD-compliant mpeg-2 file. I've previously never bothered to teach myself about video coding, and so I sorta ran into a wall diving into encoding and muxing and whatnot, so I decided to take a christmas break. Also I got an internship on a TV production company with working hours just killing my enthusiasm about other stuff than sleeping and relaxing, so that’s part of the reason as well.

Anyways, I'm gonna sort this video coding mess out now, and then I'll get a torrent running. As a matter of fact, I’m gonna start right this minute and try to complete this. I’ll post more when there’s more to post.