Movie: Elma - External Ways is out, enjoy

Kestas · Post by **Kestas** » 28 Jul 2005, 07:31

Featuring:
CMc - Kestas - Markm0 - Zelter

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Elma - External Ways

screenshots available in here

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189 MB
640 x 480
16:30 mins
WMV 9 Codec

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » 28 Jul 2005, 07:55

Can't download. When I press Download Now, I get back to the same page as before

dz · Post by dz » 28 Jul 2005, 08:05

I can download so I don't know where the problem is. I'm using Firefox. Though the download servers are rather slow. 19% finished.

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 28 Jul 2005, 09:09

From the screenshots I see one of my levels being played!

Downloading now..takes one hour.

Wezz · Post by **Wezz** » 28 Jul 2005, 09:22

Hey Kestas! Good 2 seeya at teh lauta finally..!

OMG 187 MB, no way 4 meh, who onlay hav 1000 mb transfer per month

dz · Post by dz » 28 Jul 2005, 09:46

Very cool movie. I especially liked the few slowdowns of really cool moves, I wish there were more slowdowns overally. Technically it was really enjoyable and soundtrack was also neat.

I really wish there would be a video like this where the very best players and very best tricks there are, some insane moves and such.

Ramzi · Post by **Ramzi** » 28 Jul 2005, 09:58

187 MB wow.i have to watch this movie soon.29%

Post by **Abula** » 28 Jul 2005, 10:28

To bad Elma is not smooth in videos, it would need so high frame rate.

I like simple zooms and slow downs for most. Using your video editing program's all effects isn't that much needed. Actually most of the special effects just annoyed me.

CMc seems to like pipes :].

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 28 Jul 2005, 11:03

Well I really enjoyed watching this. The special effects were cool, a nice blend with the music was made several times there. Ofcourse I found it nice to see one of my levels

, and one thing I have to give credit for is the piece where you scroll back in the level, and the bike is a white flashy light. That was truly amazing shot to see.

Way to go, a very good elma replays movie.

Wezz · Post by **Wezz** » 28 Jul 2005, 11:26

Ha, 1 of ma levs were in tat too

Thankz 2 CMc 4 piping that

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 28 Jul 2005, 15:40

Coo-ool.

None of my levs in there though.

insane guy · Post by **insane guy** » 28 Jul 2005, 16:05

eeeeek, some old insane.lev that was used for some contest, cool...
my time for kestas3: 48.67

8-ball · Post by **8-ball** » 28 Jul 2005, 17:27

still downloading o_O
fasterst server ever.

Kestas · Post by **Kestas** » 28 Jul 2005, 19:37

tisjoris: what's that level of yours, SCup06?

abula: some effects might look bit annoying but without them a movie for a game like elma would be just boring to watch since it's not a 3D game and there arent that much of colours and ingame effects. in fact it's very hard to make a good movie from a simple game like this and not to make it monotomic.
and yeah, CMc is a one big Pipe Animal

wezz: heh, CMc foofed Wezz28 & Wezz59 like unbeatable i would say ! u have to watch the movie lol

insane guy: sorry im not really familiar with some of the levels, but what's the the name of that insane level that has been used in the contest?
and wow, how did you ripped a whole +3 secs from CMc on Kestas03 ? man, he did it nonstop and i thught that time kicked ass

can i see the replay please?

and thx everybody for a nice feedback

it took me a month to do it and lots of sweat... gah, i even had to bye and extra 500 RAM to add to my 128 in order to compile the whole project to a movie

Wezz · Post by **Wezz** » 28 Jul 2005, 21:16

Kestas wrote: wezz: heh, CMc foofed Wezz28 & Wezz59 like unbeatable i would say ! u have to watch the movie lol

As i said; i dont have that much transfer

Anyway, everyone liekz it, must be real najz

OMG 3 levs of mine is played...

insane guy · Post by **insane guy** » 28 Jul 2005, 22:32

Kestas:
I`m at work right now, don`t remember the name of my lev, but it`s one ofmy old insane.levs which can be found at http://relaxed.at/insaneshit
IÂ´m gonna send you my rec when IÂ´m at home...

Ramzi · Post by **Ramzi** » 28 Jul 2005, 23:11

Great movie !! When 2nd part of this?

CMc · Post by **CMc** » 29 Jul 2005, 00:25

Well done on the video Kestas. Very cool graphics too. And yes I really like pipes...those are pretty much the only levels I play at the moment. I'm not quit up to axxu or BoneLESS standards, but hopefully will be some day.

ead · Post by **ead** » 29 Jul 2005, 00:49

really cool video

the music matched the video effects nicely.. good job

btw, cool recs as well

Riven · Post by **Riven** » 29 Jul 2005, 01:39

Strong 9/10. Lots of nice video effects experiments (except hackneyed Matrix part

). Sometimes I had feelings, that I watching demoscene production. In few moments, animation is finely harmonize with sound. Only lack some kind of humorous element, which occur for example in BarTek or MUe movies, but maybe it wasn't director aim.

John · Post by **John** » 29 Jul 2005, 04:33

+ for
...it's a freakin elmavideo! =P
...nice effects, some were very nice, the glowing flower caught my eye, and also the kinda earthquake thingie at 47 and 54 sec, and slowmotion-parts too.
...very nice idea with merged recs in the video
...good length, it wasn't over before it had even started and it wasn't too long either
...coal music

- for
...the effects, (both + and - as u see) in my opinion maby too many different/too often
...there was gamesound at a few places at same time as there was music,

Overall: 8.5/10 =)

I was thinking about this moviemaking, it would be really nice if a program was created which can save every frame in a replay as a single bmp/jpg file, then it's possible to create elmavideos just like CS videos. For that you need only one program apart from Half Life and CS itself and that is Videomach which puts all the pictures together into a movie. The program is very easy to use and has few effects which you can apply to your movie. Of course there's also a possibility to add music there. Synchronize the video with the music isn't possible though as far as I know. But for those who think Videomach-effects aren't enough there is other programs such as Sony Vegas (I think it was called).
Could be really nice if people put effort and made more of these videos.

Btw is this maybe my longest post ever? =D

CMc · Post by **CMc** » 29 Jul 2005, 05:43

I totally agree John. It would be cool if Moposite started some kind of video contest that players and...better yet...maybe different teams put together some bad ass replays and made an Elma video. Then players could rate them and vote on the best ones.

Juble · Post by **Juble** » 29 Jul 2005, 07:09

it was a good movie...but after 4 joints it was Brilliant

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 29 Jul 2005, 10:01

CMc wrote:I totally agree John. It would be cool if Moposite started some kind of video contest that players and...better yet...maybe different teams put together some bad ass replays and made an Elma video. Then players could rate them and vote on the best ones.

but you have to drive those used recs yourself

Kestas · Post by **Kestas** » 29 Jul 2005, 11:44

Riven wrote:Strong 9/10. Lots of nice video effects experiments (except hackneyed Matrix part ). Sometimes I had feelings, that I watching demoscene production. In few moments, animation is finely harmonize with sound. Only lack some kind of humorous element, which occur for example in BarTek or MUe movies, but maybe it wasn't director aim.

was Matrix idea really that bad? :X
and i think humorous elements in a serious movie like this would just make it all worse...
btw, is there a chance Abula would place a link to this video on Media section at moposite.com ?

p.s. that ingame sound was made in purpose to highlight the Camera Recorder effect.

The_BoneLESS · Post by **The_BoneLESS** » 29 Jul 2005, 16:28

Damn, this video is awesome...

Cmc is a much more better pipe driver than i thought

Liked the effects; especially the zoom in at one point

Gratz for the video makers

Juski · Post by **Juski** » 29 Jul 2005, 17:44

started downloading like 4 hours ago, still 3 hours to go, so not that slow server, could be worse :X

The_BoneLESS · Post by **The_BoneLESS** » 30 Jul 2005, 00:26

Juski wrote:started downloading like 4 hours ago, still 3 hours to go, so not that slow server, could be worse :X

took me like 35 minutes...

CMc · Post by **CMc** » 30 Jul 2005, 02:20

The_BoneLESS wrote:Damn, this video is awesome...

Cmc is a much more better pipe driver than i thought

Liked the effects; especially the zoom in at one point

Gratz for the video makers

Thanks BoneLESS, now maybe some guys will send in some recs for the pipe levels.

ciph · Post by **ciph** » 31 Jul 2005, 01:57

Juble wrote:it was a good movie...but after 4 joints it was Brilliant

havent watched yet, but ill take your advice

Antti · Post by **Antti** » 31 Jul 2005, 02:13

damn, i cant connect...

j0k · Post by **j0k** » 31 Jul 2005, 04:04

an hour an 15 minutes ago.

anyways... the screenshots looks very nice.

Antti · Post by **Antti** » 31 Jul 2005, 12:28

i didn't like the effects.

Spotcheck · Post by **Spotcheck** » 1 Aug 2005, 02:37

urgh why does Filefront go at 60Kb/sec Â¬_Â¬ dammit I want to use whole 2 Mbit/sec lol...screenshots look good tho.

ciph · Post by **ciph** » 1 Aug 2005, 05:12

its funny how everyone is so impatient, replying to the topic before they have finished downloading saying omg so slow....

pretty nice movie....

some of the effects were quite nice:
-bike glowing and blurring effects
-matrix was a cool idea but unfortunately hurt eyes
-flower glowing
-some of the slow motion

bad effects:
-omg stop the wave effect.....it distorts the level too badly, and hurts the eyes. The only real disapointment with the video.

woulda been a nice idea to collect a few more exceptional replays. but i understand this is the first video and you wanted to show your times on those contest levels.

some sick internal recs and wcap or other cup winning or sick style recs using those effects would be a really cool video.

dz · Post by dz » 1 Aug 2005, 06:03

World Cup 5 video, oh shit that would kick ass!

SpeaK · Post by **SpeaK** » 1 Aug 2005, 09:49

Wwwaayyyy too many effects. Effects are best when used on the most amazing places. Now it's good to see 5secs of the film uneffected! It was even hard to see any nice tricks since the effects distorted everything and the effects caught your attention.
And even if you do use effects, don't twist the knobs to teh max so the effects dominate the picture.

Otherwise, good job.

Jazka · Post by **Jazka** » 1 Aug 2005, 13:02

CMc wrote: It would be cool if Moposite started some kind of video contest that players and...better yet...maybe different teams put together some bad ass replays and made an Elma video. Then players could rate them and vote on the best ones.

Yeah, maybe abula or px would make a video of wr replays...

Post by **SveinR** » 1 Aug 2005, 18:09

dz wrote:World Cup 5 video, oh shit that would kick ass!

OMFG

Amazing Idea!

Very nice video i think, and I'll agree with ciph, i thought most effects were brill except the wave part. Especially when the effects were in sync with the video.

CMc · Post by **CMc** » 1 Aug 2005, 21:09

Yeah, maybe abula or px would make a video of wr replays...

Yeah, thats an even better idea

...but highly unlikely

CMc · Post by **CMc** » 1 Aug 2005, 21:11

Jazka wrote:
CMc wrote: It would be cool if Moposite started some kind of video contest that players and...better yet...maybe different teams put together some bad ass replays and made an Elma video. Then players could rate them and vote on the best ones.
Yeah, maybe abula or px would make a video of wr replays...

Yeah, thats an even better idea

... but highly unlikely

ps. oops, sorry for the double post.

dunedan · Post by **dunedan** » 1 Aug 2005, 21:13

Yes, If anyone have the energy to do a video with mopo and/or wc replays, he would be _the_ best!

Lasall · Post by **Lasall** » 1 Aug 2005, 21:17

CMc wrote:
Jazka wrote:
CMc wrote: It would be cool if Moposite started some kind of video contest that players and...better yet...maybe different teams put together some bad ass replays and made an Elma video. Then players could rate them and vote on the best ones.
Yeah, maybe abula or px would make a video of wr replays...
Yeah, thats an even better idea ... but highly unlikely

ps. oops, sorry for the double post.

hmm a video that shows the funniest ways to die?

CptBinho · Post by **CptBinho** » 1 Aug 2005, 22:15

very nice movie, but you gotta admit that it's got too many special effects.
i enjoyed watching the movie, but by the middle of it tears came to my eyes... because the image just doesn't stop!

anyways, nice movie. i recommend watching it.

Lasall · Post by **Lasall** » 1 Aug 2005, 22:37

I like the part where the level is shown backwards before the bike starts - looks like NFS Underground 2 movie.

Chizh · Post by **Chizh** » 2 Aug 2005, 00:15

187Mb... very big file for me..
do you can lower file size using lower quality?

Kestas · Post by **Kestas** » 2 Aug 2005, 07:48

sorry but it's quallity already is not the best..

and lol i gess i really overdosed a little with these records :] but all i was doing is synchronizing video with the music being afraid to make it monotonous, couse w/o effects it would be just plain boring....

Yes, If anyone have the energy to do a video with mopo and/or wc replays, he would be _the_ best!

yeah... like simple mortal can access those replays

Post by **SveinR** » 2 Aug 2005, 13:12

Kestas wrote:yeah... like simple mortal can access those replays

Well, the winner replay from each event of world cup would be clÃ¤z

CMc · Post by **CMc** » 2 Aug 2005, 17:45

SveinR wrote:
Kestas wrote:yeah... like simple mortal can access those replays
Well, the winner replay from each event of world cup would be clÃ¤z

There you Kestas...your next objective. To make a WC5 video of all the best replays.

M3rtzan · Post by **M3rtzan** » 2 Aug 2005, 18:04

So this movies is great ?? i ask because i download but it`s 6%

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