New Video -Comments please?

Jim H wrote on 1/31/2006, 3:21 PM

EDIT: UPDATED LINK WITH FINAL VERSION:

http://www.wakelydam.com/Video/ethics06.wmv

Submitted video today... no more fiddling.
Added some sound effects and a little "quake" action.
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Here's a link to a near final draft of my latest Ethics video. This is for an amature ethics film festival for the company I work for. I got some help on this forum fixing a masking problem so I thought you folks would like to see the where I'm at.

The music track was done with ACID and of course video was done on Vegas. I like any comments you may have, especially on levels as they seem to vary from monitor to monitor. I was going for a high contrast look but don't want black on gray to become black on black.

I think I caught all the spelling errors and tiny black blips. There a couple of things I still want to change...see if any of you think of them... Thanks for sharing your expertise.

http://www.wakelydam.com/Video/ethics06.wmv

Some of my other videos can be seen here:

http://www.wakelydam.com/Video/

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evm wrote on 2/11/2006, 11:56 AM

This may sound stupid but I do not do this for a living. When you talk about ethics, what do you mean? Ethics for what? Thanks for the explanation.

dibbkd wrote on 2/11/2006, 4:30 PM

Not to speak for the OP, but from watching the video, looks like it's about business ethics. Maybe Eron should have watched this a few years ago?

:)

Jim H wrote on 2/11/2006, 7:13 PM

Dibbkd got it right. Most large corporations have ethics departments devoted to keeping the ethics in business theme at the forefront of everyday operations and to evaluate "situations" that are reported by whistle blowers. They work closely with the legal folks to keep the business out of trouble. By sponsoring film festivals like this they drumb up awareness. It's been very very good to me.

Tattoo wrote on 2/12/2006, 12:58 PM

Jim,

Awesome video! I'm living with just a hair better than dial-up speed for internet and the whole 93MB download was worth it. Very cool.

Other than the software you already mentioned (Vegas, Acid, Photopaint), did you use any other plugins or anything other than the "vanilla" Vegas (i.e. Pixelan Spices, Wax, Ultimate S, Excaliber, etc.)? I'm assuming the "quake" you added was some type of script or something. Seems like I saw one around here about a year ago.

Again, sweet creativity, humor, tasteful use of effects, etc.

Brian

Jim H wrote on 2/12/2006, 6:54 PM

Thanks Brian,

Quake is VAAST script/plugin that is available to download at their wonderful site:

http://vasst.com/search.aspx?text=quake

Other than that, I don't think I used any other external tools... unless you count my dog who was treated to a few stale bread crusts. Just Can't remember, what's the "E" in PETA stand for?

dibbkd wrote on 2/12/2006, 7:36 PM

Jim H, I forgot to mention - yeah, I loved the video too.

Can I copy it and show it at the corporation I work at? just kidding, (copyright joke there...)

Anyway, I am assuming it's OK to "steal" some of the video editing ideas, like the salt words were cool, and the dog un-eating the words were cool too.. and you pulled the whole B&W thing off very well.

The whole thing was cool.

Jim H wrote on 2/20/2006, 8:59 PM

For anyone that's interested, I posted some stills and photos of some of the techniques I used in this film. I turned in the final last week and shared the link to a few friends. Lots of questions so I thought I'd share:
http://www.wakelydam.com/Video/rnw.htm

The videos:
http://www.wakelydam.com/Video/index.htm

Thanks to all for the nice comments.