Videogame Project? (Interest Gauge)

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Videogame Project? (Interest Gauge)

Postby dj_ultima_the_great » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:35 pm

I've been toying with this idea for a while now, and with the very recent overhaul on my computer, I feel more confident throwing the idea out there.

Idea
A project to tribute all of that gorgeous videogame footage and great stories. Any game of Japanese origin (meaning, anything that's .org-able) will be allowed. (Oh, and "Videogame Project" is just the working title. I'll come up with something better/take suggestions. I don't want this confused with the VG Projects.)

Music
Still not sure on this one. I haven't found any long mixes that trip my trigger, so I'm thinking of just letting people use snippets of their own songs (between thirty seconds and a minute and a half, I figure).

Footage
This is a little harder than other projects, because not all games can be ripped - unlike DVDs. Because of this, I'm expecting that anyone who joins will have a working knowledge of Avisynth. If you don't, you have plenty of time to learn. I'm expecting footage to be ripped (refer here for some help) or captured (high quality only). Absolutely NO DOWNLOADED FOOTAGE.

However, I'm not without sympathy here. I've both ripped and captured games, and I know that the latter can be very time-consuming. Let's say you're capturing Kingdom Hearts II, for example. It's a relatively long game, and I know that you're going to need time to get all of the capturing done. Hence, the interest gauge. Assuming I get responses, it'll still be a while before I post an official thread, so this gives any potential capturers time to get their job done or started.

Expectations
I'd like to allow anyone into the project, but please know that I am expecting high quality editing. I don't care if you use After Effects or Windows Movie Maker - you should still be giving me a top notch product with your best effort put into it. I reserve the right to boot anyone from the project that I don't think is giving me that much. I'm very passionate about videogames, so I want something great out of this MEP.

Anywho, seeing as how this is just a interest thread, I'm going to leave it at that. No technical stuff for now (I'll be needing some help on it, anyway). I realize that most people say that you should be a part of a MEP before you head one, but the last three I've tried to join have failed - and I'm getting a little sick of waiting for one that will work.

So, here it is: the Videogame Project thread. Please consider it, and thank you for reading.


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Postby Scott Green » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:53 pm

Yeah, I´m already into this Mep!!!!!

To Idea:
So you mean You will allow FinalFantasy Resident Evil Silent Hill Devil May Cry Kigdom Hearts and stuff lick that, makes my heart jumping with happines, this Mep will be so fucking great!!!!!

To Music: This is hard, because in most of the other Meps you are bound to the Band, but letting everyone cut down a song for theirself is i think the best solution, or you could just allow to each of the games their own original soundtrack!!!

Footage: This is a bit complicated, but shortly before i saw the thread i found a guide to rip from Ps2. Here´s the link for ripping from PS2 http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=29514
count me in for resident evil 4 or devil may cry 3!!!!!!!!!

Expactations: WMM :shock: you kidding???? with high quality editing you mean lossless codecs like huffyuv ,lagarith and stuff

I love this project already, you can also count me in as a co-coordinator, because i wanted to do a mep like this in the near future...
Oh and maybe you could name the project "FMV Project"
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Postby Stolen Soul » Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:36 pm

ohhhhhhhhhhh =Q

fatal frame @_@

me >.>
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Postby inthesto » Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:25 pm

I'm eating your socks.
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Postby Arkada » Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:29 pm

Sounds interesting
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Postby CrackTheSky » Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:41 pm

So you finally decided to go for it, eh? I'm interested - but only if most or all of my footage could come from Sega Genesis/Super Nintendo games. I've had vague ideas on how to use scenes from games like Sonic 3 or Chrono Trigger for a while, but no reason to actually make a video to them; now I have a possible excuse. I'm not saying yes, even if I am allowed to use those kinds of games, but you've definitely perked my interest, especially because I was convinced I wasn't going to be joining another MEP for a while...

Actually, now that I think about it, I could use scenes from FFVII/FFVIII because I have the PC versions of those games. I'd be loathe to, though, since they're both very oversued sources...might be a good way to give a backdrop to the Genesis/SNES footage, though...

Hmm. My interest has been perker further.
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Postby AMV_4000 » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:40 pm

Oh i am soooo in on this... PM me if/when you decide to do this, cause i got a few games that i would like to see in this...
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Postby ngsilver » Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:55 pm

the prospect is quite interesting, I think I may join in on this when the time comes
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Postby Takefuji » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:48 am

Hmm . . . could be tempting. I may have to keep my Dirge of Cerberus clips clips on my drive for a while longer =3 For music, I like watching MEPs with the same music style, like a power metal project, dance, instrumental, etc. Having too many different song styles in a long MEP can feel out of place and random, less organized, IMO. For video games, maybe instrumental might work the best so editors don't have to worry about lyric synch too much?

I did throw together a 20-minute mix of Immediate Music songs several months ago that may work, but didn't the group make the Org delete the links to some videos using their music a while back?.
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Postby Aerialesque » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:01 am

:O

I'm definitely interested in this. If you decide to do it, I'd love to be a part of it.
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Postby dj_ultima_the_great » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:58 pm

In response to some of the comments...

Scott Green: yup. Any game allowed on the .org will be allowed in this project. Still tossing around ideas for the music, but I know for sure that I definitely don't want games being put to their own soundtracks. That's straying too close to the VG Project, and I don't want to steal their thunder. Just letting you know, I couldn't get DMC3 to work with the ripping guide when I've tried it in the past, so I have to assume it can't be ripped. RE4 works, though. Yes, WMM will be allowed - IF the product is good enough. And high quality editing doesn't refer to the codecs (it's pretty much a given that I want lossless for that), but rather to the actual editing in the video. I'm flattered that you like the idea so much, but I'm going to hold off on taking a co-coordinator for now. This is my first MEP, and while I definitely would appreciate input, I don't really want anyone doing my work for me for the time being.

Stolen Soul, AMV4000: glad to see you (hopefully) on board. ^_^

sto: o_O? I'll take that as a good thing.

Arkada, ngsilver, aerialesque:let's hope all goes well. The more the merrier.

CrackTheSky: like I said - if's it's .org-able (and you can make it look hawt), I'll allow it. Also, I'm thinking about what to do for Final Fantasy. I don't want to say, "It's not allowed," but I also would prefer that the entire block of editors weren't using it. I still believe in good ideas coming from those games, so we'll just have to see what happens.

TakefujiYami-sama: good point on the music. That's something I had been thinking about, too. I'm pretty sure that a member (Pie Row Maniac or Pwolf, maybe?) had a problem with Immediate Music, so I'd rather not chance it if it is going to be a possible problem.
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Postby Arkada » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:42 pm

Arkada wrote:Sounds interesting


Alright, If you start this thing I'm in. My mind is just full of ideas at the moment.

If there's anything you want me to do just ask.
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Postby CrackTheSky » Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:10 am

dj_ultima_the_great wrote:CrackTheSky: like I said - if's it's .org-able (and you can make it look hawt), I'll allow it. Also, I'm thinking about what to do for Final Fantasy. I don't want to say, "It's not allowed," but I also would prefer that the entire block of editors weren't using it. I still believe in good ideas coming from those games, so we'll just have to see what happens.


I'm much more interested in using old-school games, I just don't know if I could make a segment interesting enough using only 2D games :/ And I'm limited to FFVII/VIII for anything 3D, pretty much. I'll give it some more thought, but I'm still interested.
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Postby Scott Green » Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:22 pm

It´s okay that you don´t take a co-coordinator, but I´m defintely so in this project with resident evil 4!!!!!!!!
As for ripping dmc3 i still have to try it, but i´ll definetly giving it a shot...
As for music, yeah when i think of the soundtracks the most aren´t really so amv-able......except for dmc3
i would like ro see some rock, metal, industrial on this project.... i think the best would be instrumentals

Seeing forward to the start of the project.....
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Postby masterGT » Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:22 pm

I'm definetely interested to join this video game project when its time is come.

I like the idea of mixing my own track with an instrumental, but there's the problem of mixing all the parts at the end.

Anyway I'm trying to get the DMC FMVs, or I will take the metal gear series.

Looking foreward to join this!
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