So 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Codec: H264-MPEG-4 AVC(part 10)(avc1)
Resolution : 960x720
Frame Rate : 23.976023
Decoded format : Planer 4:2:0
Audio
MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)
Sample Rate : 48000 Hz
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.
All the Best DarMok
Screen grab of Premiere episode 85 Data's Day HD edit
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.
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.
In the holodeck scene I wanted to throw a surprise in for the choice of the music, so started with Scott Joplin's "Solace". But as Beverley begins to teach Data his first few tap steps, it tunes into Disco time with "The Hustle" by Van McCoy, in the J. J. Abrams 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As I've been putting these blogs, Facebook and Google+ sites together, I have notice how the episodes are viewed a little more. If you can imagine as I've produced this project each episode can only be put up in order of season release. And as each episode after the one before has been up longer, it is hard to judge just how popular that episode is. Looking now at the first episode uploaded 'Encounter at Farpoint', which has been on the channel for 1 year with 11,782 hits, you would think it would have a huge advantage over more recent uploads. And it has to a certain extent, but when 'Q Who' joined the list it soared pass it with now 51,913 hits.
Now isn't it a pity that we can't put them all up at the same time, just to see what would be the definitive most watched episode. Now there's a challenge, what would you say would be the winner and of course I haven't even mentioned 'The Best of Both Worlds' yet. What about 'The Inner Light' or 'Survivors' or 'Hide & Q' or 'The Offspring', way to many to mention and those are only the first 3 seasons. So what do you have to do.....Yes, let me know what you think would top the list and why. But for now.
Hello Interwebland.
If viewers are wondering why I haven't put up any new episodes for a while, I have been waiting for the forth season to be released on Blue ray, later this month.
It seems like a good idea to wait to edit what will be episode 85 Data's Day, which is one of my personal favorites and definitely a highlight of this season, from the better source. I did start to edit it from a DVD rip of it as a MPEG
Episode 85 Data's Day
file, but then thought better of it. So if I can get hold of the Blue ray versions we would have much better looking edits of the series.
So sorry if anyone is looking for the rest of the season episodes, but I think the better image quality is worth waiting for.
You would think that by now, all of these companies like Facebook, YouTube and even this which i think is part of Google mail and lets you blog. Would all be much easier to interact with each other but no, I have been trying you days to setup a Facebook page that wont tell everyone who i really am. Sounds like something that lots of people would want as lots of stuff on the net has copyright issues that you can't be sure of how you might stand legally. (This is my FB page)
Well I have produce a little YouTube Channel that I want to make more interactive and get some quick feedback from, so i can hopefully make it better for those who have been kind enough to like it. But every time I try to link my YT account to FB, it keeps asking me to log-in as Me not ST Moments the new FB page. I am at my proverbial whits end, so any ideas or walkthroughs would be greatly appropriated. And for those who may be reading this that haven't seen the channel it's here.
