Bizzley wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 7:13 pm
PeteProdge wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:43 pm
I'm filming the final bits for this Out Run video this weekend, then it's all a case of editing it.
It didn't take this long to put Gone With The Wind together!
It takes that long to watch it!
Bizzley wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 7:13 pmAny sign of the video heading this way or has it crashed and burned on the side of the road?
I did write on Twitter that I'd have it out before Brexit happened. That was a little tongue-in-cheek, but yeah, I think that's the goal now.
Seriously though, I've ended up with a lot of my spare time being sapped away because I did four months of training to do a marathon for charity.
Which I completed the other week.
The two things left to do for this video are...
- Record the links in front of a green screen
- Create/animate the titles and captions
Now, as I try to make things look as good as possible (I've spent over £3,000 on the camera/lights/sound equipment, another £1,000 on a PC and hard drive for editing), I'm not happy with the green screen results from Adobe Premiere or After Effects. It's on the right side of acceptable for a YouTube video, just a little fuzzy, but I aspire for TV quality where possible. And so the final piece of the jigsaw is to get a MacBook Pro to deliver a decent transparency. Thankfully I just got the money to do that this morning from a freelance job, so that'll be winging its way to me.
I realise I sound like I'm one of the people working on the delivery of the Spectrum Next. I don't want to big this up too much, but I find it important that I hit the ground running, rather than coming up with something that look liked it was filmed on a potato. I've done too much stuff in the past using domestic camcorders and a 'this'll do' attitude to recording takes.
The overall idea of Reheated Pixels is that it's low budget anyway, with the occasional gag thrown in. Kind of like Baddiel And Skinner's Fantasy Football League, but for old computer games. I don't want to emulate the look-and-feel of anything else from any other retrogaming YouTubers, but I've certainly been inspired by quite a few of the British ones. If I can get the silliness of
Octavius Kitten, throw in the sardonic review style of
ChinnyVision and then just pepper in a few factual revelations a la
Larry Bundy Jr, then I'm happy.
*breathes in air through teeth*
Right, there's a bank holiday weekend coming up, then quite a few spare evenings to work on the titles/captions. I
think I can get the first video out in early June, and then aim for a schedule where I put out two videos a month.
Oh, the filming at Bury's Arcade Club of the Out Run cabinet went okay. I was crap at playing it, but I'm pleased I have original footage of a hydraulic Out Run arcade game.
One of my friends filmed the trip for his own YouTube channel here, so you can see me and him playing on old games.