Videographer for Dark Mod

[Crowind]

Hello DarkMod community!

 

I'm looking to make more Dark Mod videos and I'm offering my skills to the community.

I'm a film graduate with a minor in photography and currently work as an after-school teacher for both mediums. I have many different tools in my arsenal, and I want to expand my abilities by creating videos for various projects. I've always been a big fan of the series, and always wanted to do more in the style of the older games. (I'm also open to new ideas.)

 

I made the video with Goldwell for the map "The Accountant", and have been wanting to do more like it. I'm currently in pre-production for a new video with him, but I will also put out there that I do have time this winter to do more. I've also come up with a really good workflow to make these videos into ROQ, if you so desire. (and of decent quality.)

 

Here's the video:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJS9Qm1i6jM

 

 

 

If you're interested, please send me a message, and we'll see what we can come up with.

See you guys around!

 

-Crowind

 

Update: I made a topic on how I got my videos to be higher quality in ROQ here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/16759-higher-quality-roq-compression/

Edited December 7, 2014 by Crowind

[jaxa]

Is that your voice? It's good.

[Crowind]

Nah, that's Goldwell's voice in all it's buttery goodness.

[Bikerdude]

Hey Crowind

 

GW has been telling me you have managed to make high resolution .ROQ videos to work in The Darkmod

 

very good work btw, the video has a superb classic thief vibe to it.

[Cambridge Spy]

Hang on... Why isn't this video seen in-game? Or will it be implemented in future versions?

[Crowind]

@Bikerdude

Thanks man! Yeah getting higher quality ROQs was a a fun research project haha

 

@Cambridge Spy

It wasn't put in the mission because at the time I was told that it wouldn't work right. I've since been able to figure it out and eventually when Goldwell has the time, he'll put it in the map along with other misc. fixes.

[Bikerdude]

@Bikerdude, Thanks man! Yeah getting higher quality ROQs was a a fun research project

The TDM team would be very interested in this as this is a holy grale of sorts.

Edited November 13, 2014 by Bikerdude

[Springheel]

The TDM would be very interested in this as this is a holy grale of sorts.

 

Yes, absolutely!

[SteveL]

That video is superb! Nice work.

[nbohr1more]

Hmm, I wonder if he tricked the player by changing the encoding attributes so it "thinks" its a smaller resolution... ?

[Springheel]

Yeah getting higher quality ROQs was a a fun research project haha

 

Can you share how you did this? I would love to see video briefings like the above become more common in TDM missions, but ROQ files tend to be of such poor quality that they're not satisfying to work with.

[Goldwell]

Can you share how you did this? I would love to see video briefings like the above become more common in TDM missions, but ROQ files tend to be of such poor quality that they're not satisfying to work with.

 

Just to clarify what Crowind means by the quality I added the ROQ to a mission and took the following screenshot of the video playing in game. Here's what it looks like when Dark Mod is set to 1080p

 

I mean the quality isn't going to be 4K or anything but its a lot better than what i've seen from other ROQ's

 

 

 

 

 

[Crowind]

Since there is some interest in this, I will post a guide and workflow on how I made it.

 

Also, if anyone still needs some intro cinematics made, I'd love to help!

Just message me with the details and we can figure out where to go from there.

[Springheel]

I'd be interested, but won't be ready for a few months yet...will you still be around?

[New Horizon]

Since there is some interest in this, I will post a guide and workflow on how I made it.

 

Also, if anyone still needs some intro cinematics made, I'd love to help!

Just message me with the details and we can figure out where to go from there.

 

Was it a work around of some sort or changes to the format itself somehow?

[Crowind]

@Springheel

Yeah definitely. I'm going to spending most of the winter working on older projects, and playing through a list of FMs that I was recommended, so I'll be around.

 

@New Horizon

It was kind of a work around. Not an intense process or anything, but a generally overlooked one I'd say. I'll elaborate more in my workflow post.

Also, I have been thinking of messing around with the codec itself, just to see what I can do. No promises on anything great, but it'll be something fun I can do.

[nbohr1more]

Bump ?

[Crowind]

Just a quick update:

I made a topic about my workflow for a higher quality ROQ here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/16759-higher-quality-roq-compression/