Music Video Project Progress Diary

[Analog-X64]

I'm going to use this thread to keep you updated as I work on my first Music Video Project, and possibly pickup suggestions as I go along. Or maybe scrap the whole sharing idea and keep the rest a secret till I release it.

A couple of preliminary Scene Ideas.


1000 + Amiga "Boing!" balls falling using a Particle System. Note: The Boing! balls here are rendered using the proper Vertical and Horizontal Segments.



The Following Scene looks more impressive animated than as a single frame. This was a very time consuming scene to produce. I first previewed all 1000+ Screen Shots from the GB64 Database, I than picked my favourite screen shots, followed by what I thought were awesome C64 Title Screens.

[Analog-X64]

I plan to make this video as a tribute to both C64 and Amiga so you will see familiar Demo Elements from both the C64 and Amiga Era.

Ofcourse in this case they are rendered.

Its like a Visual version of doing a C64 Remix. Where you take a SID Tune and do a cover/remix using New Instruments.

I'm going to take Demo Elements which normally were generated using a VIC or Paula, Agnus, and Denise Chips.

I've picked a single tune that will play through out the Video, which I've preselected and got permission from author over 6 months ago...I'm going to keep the tune a secret.

Depending if I run out of Ideas, or Get stuck with my limited skill this Video could be anywhere between 2 to 3 minutes long. I might use a different tune for end credits. Will see how that goes.

[Analog-X64]

The above Test Scenes were done in 640x480 @ 24 FPS. Which seems to be the Standard Resolution of some of the Video Demo's I've seen released in the Scene. I think at this early stage of the game I need to consider what my final output will be. I have choices of

NTSC 720x480 @ either 29.97 frames per second or 23.976 frames per second

PAL 720x756 @ 25 FPS.

I would like your opinion/input on this. What do you think?


Also another thing that I have to consider logistically is having a Text Scroller scrolling through out the entire video, which I have to do using some kind of Overlay. The individual scenes will be too short to have their own text scrollers.

[the_JinX]

Go for PAL..

Or even better.. why not go for one of them new HD standards

[omoroca]

Yes, HD would be nice. And no interlacing, please. Only them old tube TVs need that, so why bother!

I think 1920x1080 is full HD, you can generate smaller versions from that later.

[Pex `Mahoney` Tufvesson]

It looks promising - I do hope you've got the time for completing such a project, it'll be huge!

I'd say don't bother with interlaced formats. (C64 wasn't interlaced to begin with... and most Amiga stuff didn't use interlace either).

But then, they were 50Hz PAL - non interlaced. Which none of these standard formats of today handles correctly (C64 and Amiga used a hardware hack by _not_ delaying every other frame half a rasterline to accomplish non-interlacing).

What is your "target audience"? If it's computer people, then let their video player deal with converting from 50Hz into someting else (which probably will be a 60Hz TFT display)...

Anyway... there's no "perfect format". Whatever you choose, it won't solve everything...


Good luck!

[Moad'Dib]

Ohh come on guys!
Don't make his work so hard with this High Definition stuffs.

That being the case this is rendered scenes, so simple PAL 720x756 @ 25 FPS. will do, but display ratio must be 16:9 for my LCD screen tv.

[Analog-X64]

What is your "target audience"? If it's computer people, then let their video player deal with converting from 50Hz into someting else (which probably will be a 60Hz TFT display)...

The target audience is you guys

I was doing some reading on PAL and NTSC Video on DVD format and there is no clear answer. However I found this on Wiki.

"MPEG video must be 25 frames per second on PAL DVDs. On NTSC DVDs MPEG-2 video can be either 29.97 frames per second or 23.976 frames per second, while MPEG-1 video can only be 29.97 frames per second. Interlacing is supported for MPEG-2 video on both PAL and NTSC DVDs"

We use the NTSC Standard here, but the majority of my audience will be PAL users. So I may have to make both formats.

My Electric Company will love me. I've obtained 6 Pentium III Systems from previous upgrades and other people getting rid of their old system.

I'll be using them like a Render Farm, so it should help render these scenes fairly quickly.

[xo]

Cool! So you even have your own mini render farm. Not bad!

[Vosla]

Whatever! Go on, Analog-X! You have our attention!

[Dumper]

Those screenshots look really nice, can't wait to see the finished result.

[Analog-X64]

I've started building Render Farm PC's, consisting of 5 Pentium III systems.

[cpt_chaos]

I'm really looking forward for some new results like screens or stuff as really liked the 2 above. Especially the one with the amiga balls! nice idea
Go on with it Analog-X

[Analog-X64]

I'm really looking forward for some new results like screens or stuff as really liked the 2 above. Especially the one with the amiga balls! nice idea
Go on with it Analog-X

- I'm getting all the Hardware ready for some heavy duty number crunching.

- I'm still in the process of making a story board of all the scenes and making sure everything will fit in the time line.

I will post more in due time.

[Soppa]

Looks great, anxiously waiting to see the final result!!