tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44377879652552516742024-03-08T19:19:12.242+00:00DarMok's ST MomentsSo what is this Blog for, well the idea is to give people a chance to comment, advise, ask for, suggest, critic or even just say they liked an episode. We all love the series, so here is a place to say just how much and what was our favorite episodes and why. Ask questions get involved tell me and others what you think and if you have any advice on how I can improve the Channel. All the Best DarMok.DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-13263950977471917952021-09-06T21:15:00.000+01:002021-09-06T21:15:04.246+01:00<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #e69138;"> I've been getting the new edit (InTheory) ready and then released it on Patreon, early for those who might want to sign up for it. But today put it up on YouTube for everybody to see, also did a little tidying up on the channel, of old episode creating new and deleting old links on the pages. It's always lots of work for me and very tiring. But it has to be done if I want people to get interested in the channel again.<br />So here is the new edit, hope you like it and also here are the links you may be interested in helping me on.<br />Join Me On PATREON<br />https://www.patreon.com/TheDarMokChannel<br />Or Buy me a Coffee on PayPal. Please.<br />https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=GMLK4T4LBAKFS</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #e69138;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="469" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZF9lT9i9r7c" width="637" youtube-src-id="ZF9lT9i9r7c"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-80784534474063428102021-09-01T15:23:00.002+01:002021-09-01T15:23:46.430+01:00Released on YouTube - STMoments - TNG - Episode 98. The Mind's Eye.<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> So it's been on Patreon for a while and now its time for everybody else to see the edit I made for this episode. Very much enjoyed creating the edit, good solid story from the series on this one, I hope people like my efforts to tell this abridged version of it.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">All the Best.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;">DarMok</span>.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cf9332;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="433" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ghJ0FuVTVW4" width="666" youtube-src-id="ghJ0FuVTVW4"></iframe></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /> <br /><p></p>DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-29590920115604612242021-08-24T14:18:00.001+01:002021-08-24T14:21:38.433+01:00<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">The Host is now up on YouTube , I hope people like it, lots of hard work went into creating the edit and then the info frames in Adobe After Effects before it can be uploaded. I have left the link here you anyone who might see it and want to take the time to view it. Thank You.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">All the Best.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">DarMok.</span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/TheDarMokChannel"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">https://www.patreon.com/TheDarMokChannel</span></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/..."><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">https://www.paypal.com/donate/...</span></span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="445" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OrFrDesWfIY" width="535" youtube-src-id="OrFrDesWfIY"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-13536178663754510282021-08-20T19:38:00.000+01:002021-08-20T19:38:00.276+01:00<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-5cde7165-7fff-6796-8c9a-6096e850b421" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BQfH1P8qx7A/YR_0jmcWEpI/AAAAAAAADsA/LWdYfPDukmk7_kLg4Z2ltRzzOozraHSQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/Art-Work%2B-%2B%2BSTNG%2B-%2BEpisode%2B97%2B-%2BThe%2BHost.%2BV1-%2BDONE..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="288" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BQfH1P8qx7A/YR_0jmcWEpI/AAAAAAAADsA/LWdYfPDukmk7_kLg4Z2ltRzzOozraHSQwCLcBGAsYHQ/w490-h288/Art-Work%2B-%2B%2BSTNG%2B-%2BEpisode%2B97%2B-%2BThe%2BHost.%2BV1-%2BDONE..jpg" width="490" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I’m about to release the next episode of TNG, which is complete and up on Patreon at this minute, but no one seems interested enough to help me out with the channel, very frustrating. It is the first of five edits I have been working on, this episode The Host is the first to have the Adobe After Effects treatment. With the framework and video combined and all the information, I could squeeze into the spaces.</span></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thou it is still a good episode it is not one of my particular favourites, but it does have its 'Moments'. I am sure that there are many out there that see this as one of their most favourite episode, which is why we love the show so much, opinions. Please let me know what you think, did I choose the scene you would have, or not. Please let me know by becoming a Patreon.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the Best.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">DarMok.</span></span><br /></span></p>DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-10109564578510571612020-09-15T17:55:00.002+01:002020-09-15T17:56:18.123+01:00Star Trek Moments TNG - Episode - 96 - Half a LifeYou can see much more if you Join me on Patreon!
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that is the stage that I am at, starting from scratch having to find and install all of the programs I had before which made me able to produce the ST Moments episodes. The next episode is Clues which may be hard to edit anyway due to its complicated storyline. The plug-in effects that appear on my series banner have to be installed into Adobe After Effects and others in Adobe Premiere. Not to mention all of the normal everyday programs that you don't usually think about, I cant ever get the sound playing properly on my system speakers at the moment, so please be patient with me. And take the time to look back at what other episodes have been done within ST Moments and I promise I will be back soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the Best. DarMok.</span>DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-15214716081684547962014-10-08T14:35:00.000+01:002014-10-15T17:40:53.493+01:00Devils Due Payed<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Hello Inter-web-land.</u></b></span></span><br />
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I have finally managed too complete, Devil's Due in a much more constricted form it's actually been cut to the bone down to just under 13 minutes. I hope you like it, I spent many hours trying to get it ready, thou I'm a little bit worried this final upload has had problems with some colorizing issues. The editing process of getting this episode down to the 13 minutes, has really shown the impact of the pace of this episode, it jumps along from one scene to the next quite well I think. I've also included a little visual effect that some of you who know this episode will I hope find enjoyable. Please let me know what you think and don't forget to join ST Moments blog and the new Community. I will be re-watching the episode Clues today and start the planning for producing that edit. Bye for now.<br />
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Ive been working hard on my latest edit of episode 87 Devils Due ST Moment STNG Edition and thought some people might what to see it. But fair warning that this is a offline edit and because I was trying to tell the whole story of the episode, it is 24mins long, much to long for a YT edition.<br />
So I will be cutting the titled version down to the bone, focusing on the dialog to tell the main story and I will try to get it down to under 10mins.<br />
This is a great episode thou, it will be one of those ones were everybody will have an opinion over what should have stayed in and which scenes are best. The last courtroom scene with Ardra and Picard has to be in there and the Scrooge scene I'm afraid will have to go, its just to long. I will try to concentrate on Picard and Ardra and the interplay between them, but bedroom scene maybe that's another one for the bin.<br />
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I have been working on my latest edit of ST Moments episode 87 Devil's Due one of the stand out episodes of the Fourth Season, this project seems to be taking longer and longer to get a handle on. This could be due to my physical problems with my disability or the fact that I'm putting so much more into them. There was a big gap between the release of ST Moments episodes 85 and 86 due to, my not being able to sit for long periods at my computer desk and just not having the energy to do it. So sorry for that gap inbetween but I'm feeling a little more able to cope now so here we go, back to Devils Due. </div>
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Yes well I did some work last week and this week on the episode, I've always like this one Ardra is a great character and the actress Marta DuBois, did a wonderful job especially in the interaction with her and Picard. The putdown in the first meeting is classic in fact the setup on most of the scenes are good and here lies the problem with all of these episodes, what to leave in and want to take out. Where Ardra first appears, has to be in, thou i have brought the dialogue closer together and cut out things like the hostage sub-story. </div>
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It was the crews motivation to prove that she is a con artist and not the devil that I thought was more important. So at the moment I'm up to the scene on the bridge when she is in the captains chair, that I'm about to work on. Which doesn't seem to work for me as well as the other Ardra scenes, in comparison to the arrival and departure of our protagonist. If you have any ideas on how i should proceed with the following scenes please let me know otherwise i will continue with my ideas which you may or may not like, I have included a offline blog exclusive preview of the episode, showing where I'm up to, so join in and advise me on how you would proceed. </div>
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I new that we where getting near to it, but it's finally happened, we have just passed the one million hits mark on YouTube. Unfortunately there where no bell or whistles, no secret levels to open up or even a message from YT itself to tell me. So to mark the occasion myself, I though it would be a good time to remind ST Moments members how the channel was designed to be played in the first place.<br />
Each episode was to follow the other as a continuous reminder of the best moments in Star Trek The Next Generation. The original concept was to have had short single moments but as time has gone on and viewers have asked for longer edits and they have become more like mini episodes. So here's the reminder to please if you have time, watch the playlists on YouTube's DarMok Channel and remember all the moments we all grew to love about the NextGen.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtYWAv5TfZdpIWrMLbTvJOw" target="_blank">The Channel</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">These are the latest edits that I have been working on, a animation for some cover-art on Google+ and the new edit for the DarMok Channel on YouTube.</span></div>
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I finally managed to get the animation I had been working on, as my G+
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The U.S.S. Enterprise receives an emergency transmission from a science station on the planet Ventax II. The Ventaxians are in a panic, convinced a mythic figure called Ardra has returned to fulfill a thousand-year-old contract. According to legend, she promised the citizens of the once war-torn planet a thousand years of peace and prosperity in exchange for their enslavement at the end of that time. When Picard takes Worf, Data and Troi to the planet to help Jared, the Ventaxian leader, Ardra suddenly appears before them.</div>
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I'm in the early stages of the edit of this episode and I think it is going well, I do love this story and think the final edit will till the story in a more pacey way.</div>
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I have been feeling well enough to site at the computer for short periods and over the last week I have managed to create a few edits of this episode.<br />
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This is probably one of my leased favorite episodes of the series and I found it very difficult to make the edit and try and keep the duration down to a reasonable size. The first attempt was 29 minuets long as there is so much in the episode. It is a very wordy story not to much action as it is more about O'Brien's struggle to put aside his old prepuces against the Cardassians and to help his old captain to do the same. I hated the ending to this episode on first viewing and it has only slightly grown upon me over the years, (It's that Song, oh dear). I have tried to put over the main story as best as I can, but as I've have already said the episode has so many long conversational pieces to it that they are hard to cut down without losing the meaning that's there.<br />
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So anyway it's done and up on YouTube here at the DarMok Channel, just see for yourselves and please let me know what you think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmbAfqwjvskDarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-56682144866385728962013-08-21T17:38:00.000+01:002014-09-27T10:33:09.788+01:00Where this post has never gone before.<span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>Hello Inter-web-land.</u></b></span><br />
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I have been updating the links on STMoments for the last few days, telling viewers of the extra's that they can see on this blog. So thought I'd better link in some more of the offline edits that were created before the blog was started. The way I work while creating the edits for STMoments is to make a edit of the episode with all of the relevant moments of that edition that I want it to contain. And then cut them down to a size that I imagine most viewers would want to see or stay with the whole way through the edit. So here are some of the previous off-line's with a little explanation as to why the finished edits ended up shorter.<br />
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One of my particular favourites, this edit show a little more of Lore's arrival and his interaction with Data.<br />
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I have include this episode in the blog because it was the first and its always worth a watch again as it is a longer two-parter.</div>
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<u>Part 1 </u> Presented in it's longer form, I tried to put in all of the storyline as concisely as possible and still have all of the main scenes that people would want.</div>
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<u>Part 2</u> This concluding part of the story<br />
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This was the one i wanted to make, to bring both<br />
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There are also a few little bits of video compositing going on in this edit but no one has found them yet, see if you can.</div>
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I love this edit for some reason, mainly because of the way the two episodes are combined. I used the whole of the music score from episode one <br />
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DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-86137420293933905732013-08-12T14:18:00.000+01:002014-09-27T10:33:26.509+01:00Upload problems in HDHello Inter-Web-Land.<br />
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Feeling very frustrated this morning after trying to encode the most suitable format for YouTube and hitting a brick wall every-time. The final edit for episode 85 Data's Day was completed yesterday (Sunday), and because I want these new edits to be HD or as near as dam it. I have fixed the info banner and re-sized it, incorporated it into the latest edit and rendered the lot. Then tried to upload the render to YouTube and the upload time was going crazy, it started off at 6 hours then ended up at 8, so I canceled it and looked at the info help pages.</div>
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So I did this and uploaded the episode and the quality to me looks poor, also the text on the banner which looked OK when I re-encoded it, now look choppy and pixelated once uploaded.<br />
So for now this is it, but I will be working on a better way of converting the originals for editing and finding the best way to upload 4x3 aspect ratio HD files to YouTube.<br />
If anyone knows how I might do this, any ideas please let me know.<br />
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DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-71360538372741699062013-08-11T11:20:00.000+01:002013-08-11T11:20:07.854+01:00Data's Day Re-edit The Wedding Story Blog ExclusiveHello Inter-Web Land.<br />
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So I have completed this 18min version which is just the wedding storyline, cut out the Romulans completely. I have made a 12min final version for broadcast on YouTube but I have to recreate the series banner in HD otherwise the higher detailed larger screen will make it look silly.<br />
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Hope you like this exclusive look at the decisions that have to be made in the editing process, I think it's interesting I hope you do too.<br />
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<br />DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-56439418608539194342013-08-09T22:42:00.002+01:002013-08-09T23:18:24.518+01:00Exclusive look for my blog readers of episode 85. before the final edits public upload.Hello Inter-Web-Land <br />
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This is my first offline edit of Data's Day but it is much to long and I will have to cut it down to a more reasonable size. The Romulan storyline will just have to go I think if we are to keep all of the other good stuff. Anyway if you have the time see what you think and any constructive comments would be welcome.<br />
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Not sure if YouTube has finished processing it yet but it's up if you want to take a look.<br />
<span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Cx8kqsEbx9o" target="_blank">ST Moments 85. Data's Day Offline Edit</a></span><br />
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All the Best. DarMok.DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-83546870105129517522013-08-08T21:39:00.004+01:002013-08-08T21:41:24.689+01:00Data's Day Edit StartedHello Inter-Web-Land.<br />
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Well I have finally started the Data's Day edit, the evidence is below, I'm up to the scene where O'Brien asks Data to speak to Keiko<b> </b> again and try to convince her that the wedding should go ahead. I have decided to create an edit based around Data's narration of the episode, which will also touch upon the secondary storyline of the Vulcan Ambassador. As usual the hardest part of creating these edits is what to cut out while keeping the essence of the storyline. What I find it easier to do is to create the edit trying not to think to much about who long it will be and then when it's finished, treat it like an offline edit, which can be reduced as needed.<br />
But it's that process which can be very difficult when there are so many scenes that fans remember as their own personal favorites. I don't know whether to eventually cut the secondary storyline out completely and just have the wedding and the dancing scene which will be quite long when I get to it. Decisions, decisions, this is why I started this blog to try and get some input of the other fans of the series to help me make these ST Moments (NextGen Edition) as good as possible, which is what I am trying to do. I am also having a few problems with my choice of codex for the HD edits, I am trying to keep the quality good but the file size down, currently using, any suggestions would be welcome.<br />
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I will keep at it and see if I can get it right, people seem to like the longer edits anyway so we could end up with a 10-15 min version.<br />
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<br />DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-24651976583328811122013-08-07T22:49:00.000+01:002013-08-07T23:20:23.274+01:00Data's Dancing DayHello Inter-Web-Land.<br />
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This sequence has been created as a experiment to see what would be the best format to upload HD to YouTube. I needed something to try out as a HD version of a ST Moments edit and to be honest I got a little distracted with the process of creating this edit.<br />
As happens a lot with the compositing I create in Adobe After Effects, because there are so many possibilities of what can be created. I started with a simple idea when watching the Sick Bay scene between Data & Beverley Crusher. An extra walks passed them and hears a little of what they are talking about, Data's wish to learn how to dance. I created a double take of the extra at what he had heard and then thought this needs some music and it continued from there.<br />
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In the holodeck scene I wanted to throw a surprise in for the choice of the music, so started with Scott Joplin's "<i>Solace</i>". But as Beverley begins to teach Data his first few tap steps, it tunes into Disco time with <span class="st">"The <i>Hustle</i>" by Van McCoy, </span> in the <span class="st"> J. J. Abrams</span> tradition, the lights come on and its time to get down. The idea just stroke me as funny, that this would be on the show, Data's Disco Dancing Day.</div>
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This process has helped me in a round about way to work out what format I will be using from now on for producing the series of ST Moments. Now all I need is to reproduce a banner in the new HD size and my mean worry that I have hardly any room left on my hard drives for these large files. But by Huck or by Crock, I will find a way to get them done, so for now all the best and I hope you all enjoy this bit of fun I have created, when I should be hard at work continuing the series, soon very soon.</div>
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DarMok.DarMokChannelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14024852082908546820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437787965255251674.post-23718919550581779852013-07-31T23:02:00.000+01:002013-07-31T23:09:24.651+01:00ST Moment News & New Video.Hello Inter-Web-Land<br />
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Sorry I haven't been blogging to let everyone know what I've been up too, but just had to much on, for a little time there, family stuff and the likes.<br />
So you will be glad to hear that I have season four of TNG on blue-ray, which means I can start back on Star Trek Moments very soon. To pass the time on the odd occasion I had some spare time to do stuff. I have been working on getting a little better at using Adobe After Effects and some of its plug-in's, one fairly new plug-in in particular.<br />
This below is my first serious attempt at using Adobe After Effects Elements, a plug-in made by Video Co-Pilot. Great, Brilliant Superb, so much that can be done with it, the possibilities seem endless, so expect more compositing projects in the future.<br />
I also want to try out Video Co-pilot's Metropolis plug-in, which can create a virtual cityscape, which in turn can be used to create backgrounds for whatever I may need to put in them, so Cool.<br />
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Be don't panic, Star Trek Moments will be back on the road soon, but now in the much better quality of 720p format. Here's what I have made with Video Co-Pilot's Elements, hope you like it.<br />
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