Comments on: Home, sweet home… reloaded

By: Raul Crimson

Raul Crimson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:39:33 +0000

Thankies for the advices, Codie.
Still learning, but i love to learn, so my compromise is to make a better machinima soon.

By: CodeBastardRedgrave.Com » MachinimaCam Showcase: Home, sweet home

CodeBastardRedgrave.Com » MachinimaCam Showcase: Home, sweet home — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:04:28 +0000

[...] dear Raul Crimson made this little machinima movie, about his lovely home. He made it using the MachinimaCam he won at the last SL Blogger party [...]

By: CodeBastard Redgrave

CodeBastard Redgrave — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:11:05 +0000

yay Raul! this is going to the MachinimaCam showcase right now!

Now i just want to give you a few tips. You mentioned it’s laggy because you shot at high res. Well this is the trick; it is totally useless to do so. The average resolution for any movie is around 640×480, a little more for NTSC. So i found quickly it was totally almost useless to shoot in higher resolution. All my videos were shot in 800×600 and the cut/editing software I use resize it to 640×480 or NTSC. If you start shooting higher than that, especially with Windlight (I affectionately call it Windlag), well, you will get tremendous framelag. For shooting any machinima animation within SL, your client famerate should be at least over 12FPS. Over 15 even better.

You can use the Set Window Size in SL Viewer’s “File” menu. This is what I use all the time. This menu has been place there especially for shooting machinima movies. I really suggest you go no higher than 800×600. Because finally the cut/editing program you use will resample each frame and you wont really get a better resolution if you shoot in high resolution anyways. That’s unless you have one BEEFY machine that can do over 15FPS in full resolution, but such rig is bound to be bleeding edge.

In short, don’t bother with high image quality, you will see that the final 640×480 result will be surprisingly crisp anyways, and you will have no framelag or very little.

Hope this helps! Congrats on the gorgeous job despite the lagging problem, it’s awesome Raul! *muah!*

Codie

By: Raul Crimson

Raul Crimson — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:14:03 +0000

Thanks, friends. Of course you are invited when you want (well, Wolf knows the place, but is always invited anyway ).
About your description, Wolf, special thanks, my friend. I really feel this place as part of me.

By: octoberhush

octoberhush — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:24:09 +0000

Looks gorgeous, hon! =)

(of course, I would expect no less from you)

By: Wolf Hartnell

Wolf Hartnell — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:46:07 +0000

You have captured the place far better with this than you ever could with still photos. I have never seen a home that better suits its owner either. It is an incredibly warm, welcoming and sensual place my friend and I love it.

By: Phoenix Ellsberg

Phoenix Ellsberg — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:39:46 +0000

Raul, your last home was gorgeous but this one is beyond words! Your sense of colour and placement is excellent, everything works so well together. I know I am gushing again, but I really do love what you have done with your home