I originally had much bigger ambitions for the narrative involving source film maker scenes, voice acting, etc., but that all fell short since I couldn't commit enough time to the editing (it took nearly 4 months just for this). Hopefully someday when I have more free time something much more cinematic can be made.

Some of you may have seen my new movie played on the Tip of the Hats stream last night. Today is the official release of the movie which can be found here on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_K_62k2iHo&feature=youtu.be

Download links aren't up yet as I've been having some trouble with the uploads, but they should be up shortly.

The plan was to release it tonight after the premiere but when it streamed I noticed a few mistakes/typos which I'd like to fix... so it will be on my channel tomorrow night. Thanks for the positive responses on it.

I would love to use Premiere/After Effects together over Sony Vegas but sadly my computer (graphics card/ram in particular) don't support all the newer features and as a result the workflow in Sony Vegas is much more bearable. I have to ram preview everything either way but it's faster in Vegas.

30 technically has a cleaner look on any website which does not support 60 fps (which includes youtube) but the difference is so small I'm not sure why anyone would've ever made a deal out of it.

Threw together a quick trailer for my upcoming jump movie, it doesn't really have much content since I didn't want to ruin any of the movie.

http://youtu.be/x7eQyAAwJ-0

I don't play tf2 anymore so no, if you post on the tf2jump forums though you might get some cool jump-frags.

Others will say all the obvious improvements so I'm going to try and pick out smaller details which can be improved.

I wouldn't use a hard transition between maps such as process and snakewater since the general colours of the two are so different. Either add a feather to the linear slide transition to soften it or just pick something else such as a fade. The smooth on process second could've been implemented better. I personally find empty smooths really boring and always think it's best to use ticks where there is action going on. In the case of this smooth you could've had that blue scout running along towards the point during the smooth. Not only is it more interesting it provides some build up towards the actual frag(s). The thirdperson on granary was fine, I think if you experiment with the camera commands some more you can find a more interesting angle.

Overall the clip was fine, a clean edit but no different than the hundreds of other clips found in the frag clip threads. If you want it to stand out as a great clip (editing-wise) it's usually the smaller details that need to be worked on or changed.

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Yes it does.

The flow throughout the video was actually really good. Some of the clips with tons of fast forwarding/slowmotion felt a bit forced but for the most part the sync was solid. A few more third person views or smooths would be nice and as others have said some of the effects were terrible.

These are really fun to watch, I have so much more respect for the runners who do it all completely manually as opposed to the scripted runs though.

To add on to this, most of the players who "appear out of nowhere" actually just practice a shit ton over a short period of time. To people who don't regularly play/keep track of their practice, it appears that these players get really good suddenly without any effort. I think Yz50 is a good example of this, obviously a very skilled player and has some natural talent (hence why he can play while sleeping at lan) but in the 3-4 months that he went from open to invite level he played DM/MGE almost non-stop.

You really couldn't make this more misleading... MIKE played a lot of surf (at least 3-4 hours/day) for about 8 months straight to reach top 25, and it's not like it took everyone else there 8 years to get to that level. More like it took them anywhere from 1-4 years and then they began to hit a plateau, since the top surfers tend to level out at around the same level. As far as jumping, it was certainly longer than 2-3 months and looking at someone who comes into a scene as it's finally "developed" isn't really a fair comparison to other jumpers. It took the early jumpers like Nightin, Muffin, etc., a couple years to reach the level that a player can reach in a few months now.. simply because there is so much more knowledge and experience to pass around than there was in the early stages of tf2.

This isn't meant to bash MIKE... he's a really good player and no doubt has naturaly talent towards the game, but you make it sound as if he became a top player with no effort when he was actually on TF2/CS:S dedicating way more practice/time than most players would even consider.

Sorry I meant to say skip in my post, just a typo on my part. To set up a teleport just type "getpos" in console when you're beside the wall, and the console will produce a line of positional values. Copy this line and bind it to a key with the command "bind key setpos xxxx.xxx.xxx" then just hit the bind whenever you want to return to that spot. As far as ammo there is a rocket clip script on tf2jump.com/ which gives you about 250 rockets in a clip so you can practice without reloading.