9th CMV - The Transition

Yeah after so, so long, my latest video is finally up on the Net. Temporarily it’s on YSI (yousendit) for a week before it expires (yea i’m using the free account type, so only 7 days/100downloads not 14days/500downloads). Hopefully it’ll be up on permanent hosts soon (have to make sure the owners download it off YSI before it expires).

Before i go on to comment about the video itself, I’ll just put up some random images of the video contents.

I definitely spent a lot of time and effort on this one, using a different capturing technique (thanks to Posix) to record my combos onto .avi format before proceeding with editing. This is also part of the meaning behind “The Transition” as I’ve switched from supposedly-30fps recording to a true 60fps video =)

It is also the first time that I’ve asked people to appear in my video, which meant more time spent to contact people and effort to organise all the stuff that they have sent in ^_^. Now I kinda understand how other editors out there feel when they’re trying to do a “Guest” section in their videos. It isn’t as easy as you think =D

The other meaning to “The Transition” is the Player2’s priority at the corner when Player1 is facing the corner. It allows Player 2 to jump INTO the corner, and is only exclusive to Player 2 (the same cannot be achieved using the reverse scenario.) I know I’m bad at explaining with words, so do check out the video and be on a look out to see when Player 2 can actually go into the corner when Player 1 is already there. For those who have watched some/all of the videos that I’ve shared here, you should know what I mean by now =D

Actually, there could have been a 3rd meaning to “The Transition”, which was the use of x264 encoding. However, I’ve given up on it as I can’t seem to get the settings right (good quality without blowing the filesize too huge). I also had a problem with the .avi files after encoding. They had weird “scanlines” throughout the whole video. Gotta ask around to gain enlightment.

The version that the Net will see is a 171mb .wmv file with a duration of 15m11s. It seems big because firstly, it’s a 60fps video (compared to most videos which are only 30fps), and encoded with a bitrate of 1.5mbps (it’s quite high quality already IMO, though the one I’m keeping is even higher.). I intend to get it up on YouTube as well, but apparently they have a 10min limit. Will seek help from the YouTube experts and ask them to upload on a later date (after being released on permanent webhosts.).

For any questions related to the video, be it in-game help, or technical help, feel free to drop me an email, or msg me on MSN…

Now, for the links. I’ve passed the links to a few of my good buddies and friends from the various forums. I trust that they wont sabotage me and make the links invalid. Come on, 100 downloads is definitely wayyy more than enough for those guys, and even for people who actually bother to download after reading this entry (like how few?). I had to split the file into 2 for YSI as the free account type I own only allows a maximum of 100mb/file. More links will be added as they are uploaded to various servers. I will add in notes to future entries whenever there’s an update of links for downloads ^_^

So here it is:    Akumacombos server (Link 1)