Project FMV: Official Thread (released!)

dj_ultima_the_great · Post by **dj_ultima_the_great** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:37 pm

Hi there, folks. Just posting to remind everyone that the deadline for the first beta is in less than a week (May 20th). I'd like to re-remind everyone what I'm expecting from these betas:

- if you have a video, great. I'd love to see whatever you have edited thus far.

- always PM your link to me and I will PM it to the other three beta testers. If you want to post the link in this thread as well, that's just fine. This project can only get better by having everyone know what the general quality of editing is.

- if you don't have a video ready yet, that's okay for this first deadline. Just make sure to let me know how you're doing. I know that some editors in this MEP will be recovering from ACen yet, so I'll go easy on everyone because of that. All I want to know is that you're alive and you haven't forgotten the project. If I don't get some kind of confirmation a day or two after the deadline, I'll PM you for one.

Lastly - and I can't really enforce this one - if you see a track that you think is better than yours, don't feel discouraged. Instead, let it motivate you to work even harder and make something that you feel is just as good as the videos around you. I want everyone to feel like they did their best when this is released. I don't want anyone thinking that their track is out of place or worse than others around them.

I haven't said this in a while, so it bears mentioning. If ever you believe I have not clarified something well enough, or that I'm not communicating with you well, let me know. If I can, I'm always ready to help.

- Jen

bluetrain · Post by **bluetrain** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:31 am

I'm not sure if i'll have a beta yet, i'm still messing around with the OGMs S.T.AL.K.E.R Comes with to see if i can fix them up further, but VDUB doesn't seem to like 'em much and i also need to free up so some HDD space, coz i'm packed to the gunwales right now!

masterGT · Post by **masterGT** » Tue May 15, 2007 3:13 pm

@ dj_ultima_the_great:
I don't think that I will have a beta till May 20, but I have edited about 35 sec. which are not the final version I think. If you want to see that so far, I can send It to you.

OropherZero · Post by **OropherZero** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:57 pm

Hi,

just letting you know that I won't have time to even think about this MEP nor do the BETA until my exams are over - mid June but then I have a 1 month break which is more than enough to finish the entire track =O

dj_ultima_the_great · Post by **dj_ultima_the_great** » Sat May 19, 2007 1:00 pm

Alrighty, folks. Thanks for letting me know what's up. masterGT, I'd be happy to see what you have. ^_^

One day left before the deadline, folks. Oh, and even if you already sent me a beta, like, months ago, can you just post your confirmation that you did one more time? It'll help me keep track of things. Thanks.

- Jen

Takefuji · Post by **Takefuji** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:42 pm

Alrighty, beta stuffs.

So a while ago I did post a link in the thread with a beta for my Dirge of Cerberus track, but that's old and ugly so I'll have a new one up when I get home from work tonight.

My Kingdom Hearts track, however, I won't have a beta up by the deadline, as I'm still in the process of ripping my clips. I will be working on it this weekend, if I can get around to collecting the last of my clips, but there is very little chance of a proper beta being up for tomorrow.

Just know that I'm still working on it, really I am ^^;

MioMug · Post by **MioMug** » Sat May 19, 2007 8:54 pm

Yeah Im havin problems as well.

Currently I need to clean up over 100GB of space on my HD before I can do anything (only 3GB left ^^;;) Not to mention that Anime North is next weekend and I need to prepare for that.

Ill see what I can have up in the next few days and send you a link. It won't be the full track but I see how much I can get done.

bluetrain · Post by **bluetrain** » Sun May 20, 2007 6:55 am

Arkada wrote:Yeah Im havin problems as well.

Currently I need to clean up over 100GB of space on my HD before I can do anything (only 3GB left ^^;;) .

i feel your pain...

dj_ultima_the_great · Post by **dj_ultima_the_great** » Sun May 20, 2007 4:21 pm

Well, today's the deadline - but like I said, don't freak out too much if you don't have anything ready for me. Confirmation that you're still alive is enough for me right now. So, it looks like I've heard from...

- myself (duh)
- Scott Green
- Takefuji
- sayde
- inthesto
- Arkada
- IcyCloud
- bluetrain
- OropherZero
- AMV_4000
- masterGT

Which means... it looks like aerialesque is the only one I need to pester for confirmation. Everyone else - at some point - has told me that they're alive, be it here, through a PM, or IRC.

As for me, this isn't going to be a very impressive beta. Firstly, it's short. That's all I got done before ACen, finals week, and moving back home hit me. Also, though, I've mentioned in other places that I'm editing this oddly. I'm adding in all of the effects after I've finished editing the segment in simple cuts. So, there aren't even fades in this beta. Hope it's okay, though.

Took me four tries to get an XviD that didn't look like a polygon had puked pixels into my video player... : /

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tfq8bz

That's all, I suppose. I'll bug aerialesque today, and as for everyone else - I'd like suggestions for the next beta deadline. Summer schedules tend to vary greatly for everyone, so I want something that's comfortable for all of you folks. I only ask that it's either before September or after September. I start school again early that month, so I don't want to deal with a MEP then.

I expect completed (or nearly completed) segments by the second deadline, so take that into consideration when figuring out the schedule.

- Jen

AMV_4000 · Post by **AMV_4000** » Sun May 20, 2007 5:00 pm

i'll have to do my beta tonight and send ya the link, but i did get a little bit captured last night