February 1 to February 29, 2012: Monthly Challenge Ad Compiliation!

Re: February 1 to February 29, 2012: Monthly Challenge Ad Compiliation!

Ok I've done an edit of the ad that you can view here:

Let me know your thoughts. Is anything out of place or look odd?

UPDATE: I've deleted the first draft, I will add the final draft as a reply soon.....

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Looks fantastic all together like that!  I think they flow well.
With mine - I zoomed in a bit so it would cut with the zoom-in at the start of Matt Chappell's piece, but it looks like you chopped off the start of his so that was missing.  I actually overlapped a bit so it was good to cut off some of mine, but I'd like to see a few frames more of Matt's instead of so much static.
Also - it's so small in frame, I could upload a 4:3 version instead of letterboxing the 16:9.  I hadn't realised it would be on a 4:3 tv set.
How about zooming in on the TV a bit more so all of the segments come up a bit bigger? 
Only other thing is, when the voiceover says "the last Wednesday of every month" we see a calendar that says Thursday 29th...  It should be possible to patch that up in post to say Wednesday!  Or is it just me that's bothered?

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Looks great! However, i notice an error on my part. The fake calendar I made was reflecting the actual date that the last stream took place in, which was a Thursday, not a Wednesday. And right after the voiceover tells us that it's on the last Wednesday of every month. Whoops!

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All of what you said makes sense Nick. The issue with Matts piece can't be fixed as it is actually all there. What I did was lay the original audio track down and cancel out all the audio attached to all the files. Then I matched the audio of the clips with the main audio by lining up the wav forms. Then if there was a gap between clips I filled it with TV static. I think the problem stems from Deans break-down of the audio not being exactly perfect.

I did notice the "Thursday" written on the calendar, I could try to put "Wednesday", in a way it's kind of funny.

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Looks good! I like the calendar saying Thursday -- it's definitely funnier than Wednesday.

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Looks great, Marc! I thought you filled the gaps in really well, and it runs pretty much seamlessly. I did notice on my section, you can see the ninja jump out of the top of the tv screen. Is it necessary to zoom so far in, as you cropped out most of my set? If it has to be done, I don't mind, but just thought I'd ask.  cool

I also like the calendar saying Thursday. Afterall, for some of us, the show is on Thursday  tongue

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Ok I've re-cropped Nicks , Deans and a couple of other clips a little to make things look bigger in frame. Or in Deans case smaller so you don't see the bleeding at the top. I'm going to see if I can change the Thursday text next but it will be tough to match those camera moves. So if it looks cheezy I'll leave that the way it is.

Oh I forgot to add that I swapped the static after Nicks piece and moved it to the beginning so it flows better with Matts after his.

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Ok, I've made the changes. The only thing I couldn't do was to change Thursday to Wednesday on Nederers video. I made a graphical Wednesday to manipulate, but in Sony Vegas the graphic can only be made so small in the key frame box. The zoom is just too large. It's not a big deal though, I think it's kind of funny. I'm going to call this done unless anyone has any objections.  tongue

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Yeah, I like it, I think it's done too!

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Re: February 1 to February 29, 2012: Monthly Challenge Ad Compiliation!

Am I too late to try and push for a higher resolution on my clip?  It just looks a bit foggy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh-il9TmFzs

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