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**D|major** · April 04, 2009, 06:00 AM

Für Elise

Please comment, rate and watch in HD!

http://www.dailymotion.com/user/D-ne...len_videogames

Pics of the video, soon!

**Aldgarkalaughskel** · April 04, 2009, 06:24 AM

Wow. All I can say is: Thank You, DNeed. Almost brought tears to my eyes. A perfect movie with great scenes, perfect cuts, an awesome retro effect and the perfect music. +rep

**D|major** · April 04, 2009, 06:33 AM

Thank you very much, mate! Compliments like that keep me making those videos!

Here are some pics of the video:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**Giovi** · April 04, 2009, 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by D|need

Für Elise

Please comment, rate and watch in HD!

http://www.dailymotion.com/user/D-ne...len_videogames

Pics of the video, soon!

the best video of empire i have ever seen maybe it is your best it is a masterpiece really awsome +rep i really have no words.

ps also the pics are great

**Aldgarkalaughskel** · April 04, 2009, 12:34 PM

D-Need, can you make a tutorial on how to create these videos for Empire, please? Share a bit of your knowledge and pro tips with us? I would really like to do something like that you just posted.

**D|major** · April 04, 2009, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by PowerWizard

D-Need, can you make a tutorial on how to create these videos for Empire, please? Share a bit of your knowledge and pro tips with us? I would really like to do something like that you just posted.

Well, it's pretty simple, actually. Change the camera to debug mode, start Fraps or use the Xfire video capturing tool (that's what I did here), record loads of footage to have many scenes to choose from (I recorded one hour of footage for these three minutes video). Take all kinds of shots, 'Ins' for first-person view, 'Del' if you want to anchor the camera to a unit, and simple still camera shots. Use After Effects for color correction and for screening the footage with this old film look or use Premiere for simple and limited post processing. Then put all the video material into Premiere, cut it the way you want and put some music on it (in my case I chose the music at first and cut it afterwards, according to the music).

That's it!

**D|major** · May 04, 2009, 04:44 PM

Some new pic:

**drazeN** · May 04, 2009, 05:12 PM

Amazing videos, screenshots... Everything! +rep

**D|major** · May 05, 2009, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by drazeN

Amazing videos, screenshots... Everything! +rep

thanks mate

**Baron Vlad Felix** · May 07, 2009, 12:17 PM

Bravo and very nice !

**D|major** · July 25, 2009, 09:15 AM

This is my latest video: Water lily.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX6cu...d=1&feature=hd

I made this video in may and june but couldn't render and upload it until now. I hope you enjoy it, don't forget to watch in HD. For more infos read the video description

And I've finally updated the first post of this thread. It's up-to-date now with all my screenshots and video

Please take a look at it

**Giovi** · July 26, 2009, 04:48 AM

it is not perfect but it is awesome...1 question Why no close view?
And the worst thing is that there is not a clear a plot line...
Anyway the style used is gorgeous i love it

+rep

**D|major** · July 26, 2009, 06:48 AM

Thanks Giovi!

Regarding your questions: I havn't included close views and zooms because that's not easy to do. I zoomed out just a little at 1:21 minute and it was a goddamn work to make every frame match with the previous during the zoom. Especially because of my low-res camcorder (I didn't have good anchor points in the footage). That little zoom probably took me the longest of the whole video (apart from the ships, maybe, because there were no anchor points at all in that water). But if you'd really like to see some nice zoom-in's - I think that it's a good idea, too - I can try to do some closer zoom in a next video, maybe with a faster zoom where I have less frames to manually work on.
Ok, this was a bit of a technical answer. The next one regaring the plot wont be, I promise:

I just had no idea what story I could do with a garden pond like that lol. For my first video like this I thought it would be ok even without a plot

D|need

**Nole4694** · July 30, 2009, 06:27 PM

D|need, im getting some pictures for the M2TW mod on GSTK, and Im too lazy to make my own, and so can I use some of your great pictures for the loading screens?