GALLIC MOVIE FOOTAGE THREAD

[Dieter Schprokets]

Yo

I intend to make a movie in honour of the new mod.

I will need help with footage, firstly, since since I am no longer an Admin, I cannot simply will any ship I want into existence. Secondly, my good videocard died some time ago, and while I can make some footage, I cannot produce the quality I used to.

WHAT I NEED FROM YOU, PLEASE

Post in this thread with links to footage (on Filefront, for instance) which you capture in game. Keep in mind the following:

-Give me SHORT, HIGH QUALITY footage, ie with Freelancer Detail settings maxed out or at least pretty high. I need 30 second clips of "awesome" footage, not half an hour of raw stuff. Give me your best, I won't have time to filter through a bunch of mediocre stuff. (And it takes forever to download) Keep in mind I am making a movie of about 5 minutes duration. I'm willing to go through about 20 minutes of total footage to make it, but not hours of it.

-If your videocard cannot capture at least 25 FPS on HIGH detail, please don't bother.

-Use FRAPS, or any other screen capturing software.


WHAT KIND OF FOOTAGE IS NEEDED

-From official factions, footage of your members flying in formation, like you are rallying to prepare for an invasion, or to meet an invading force. (Use Mouse Flight view, in a VERY pretty system.) Not so good in rocky/cloudy systems.

-Footage of heavy Gallic Capital ships, just generally flying and being awesome, in Mouse View, in a pretty system.

-Footage of battles between Gallic Official Factions and/or Indys versus other Official Factions and/or Indys. Mixed Fleets are best. Caps, fighters, GB's, bombers.

-Specifically, footage of a big Gallic capital ship beating the tar out of an opposing capital ship. This is where a camera ship or another third party filming is best. Capture the impact of heavy weapons, mortars etc. That's the good stuff.

-I cannot emphasise this enough: EXPLOSIONS. Whether NPC's or Players, capture the bigga badda boom when the Gallic ship blows up his opponent. (Sometimes the non-Gallian can win, but this mod is kinda about Napolean redux, when Francophones kick some tail and take names..)


WHAT ELSE IS NEEDED

-The Symbols of the Official Gallic faction, high quality picture files, JPG's. I can just get them off the factions status page, but I'd rather the official Gallic factions tell me what symbols they want me to use. The Fleur De Lis is veddy nice.


FEEL FREE TO POST IDEAS AS WELL

-For instance, if you think "The GRN should engage Faction X in the Y System near base Z", then say so. Maybe it will get done and turn out as awesome as you think it will.

-If you think the movie should start out with certain types of scenes and end with others, let me know what you think.

-But this thread is mostly about footage. No footage, no movie.

Oh, and hi again, y'all.

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[Exile]

First of all, it's Gallic. Not Gallian. Please fix that before you give me and my faction eye cancer.
Secondly, I'll see what I can do.
Thirdly, logo.

http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/images/5/5f/...ogoNew.png

Easy thing to make it transparent : Magic selection on the black, delete button. Done.

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[Dieter Schprokets]

Gallic it is.

Footage, please.

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[Not Espi]

what resolution will you be using?

[Dieter Schprokets]

I film in 1024 X 768, 32 colours.

But I can make use of footage at a bit lower resolution.

The point is to maintain 25 or greater FPS.

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[Dieter Schprokets]

I can take footage at 25 FPS, and will attempt to do a bit on my own.

I miss my old videocard...

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[Not Espi]

ill record something for you when we are in gallia, np.