[Genma Saotome]

This video is what convinced me that an unappreciated aspect of our hobby is the making of videos. It doesn't show you all that much of the route, doesn't tell you why the route is special, or that you should get it -- nothing in fact that one usually finds in a simulator video. Instead, IMO, it demonstrates the craft in making a video, one that happens to be of a simulator route. It left me wishing for more -- other routes -- in the same style.

[thegrindre]

I will agree about the composition of this vid unfortunately, it jumps around far far too much for my eyes to follow and gives me a headache to watch it. No screen is left in view long enough to focus on to absorb what it is trying to portray.
In other words, if this vid held 100 screen shots, it should have been reduced to about 50, IMHO.

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[longiron]

Got to remember what the point of the video was ... to demonstrate the new 3D visual features of v360. Those included better 2D cabview, headlights, fixing dynamic track gaps, adding overhead wires, addition of dynamic shadows, and physics improvements.

Whether you like the artistic style or not, I thought it did a pretty good job of covering the important visual improvements in the release.

[thegrindre]

Those were the main issues but I couldn't see them. It was far far too jumpy to be able to focus on anything.

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[Genma Saotome]

thegrindre, on 18 November 2011 - 01:10 PM, said:

Those were the main issues but I couldn't see them. It was far far too jumpy to be able to focus on anything.

:oldstry:

Rick, short takes / lots of cuts, is pretty much the norm these days and given this video had no dialog and nothing that I could call any obvious plot, the guy who did it created something that was, IMO, a good fit for anything that goes fast -- cars, aircraft, trains, heck, I think he could have done track & field, ice hockey, a lot of different things. So while you object to the technique, I thought it was spectacular.

Different strokes for different folks makes the world go round, right buddy?

[thegrindre]

Right, buddy. :good:
Unfortunately, any ad of this kind is quickly turned off by me and my family. We actually discussed it many years ago when it first started becoming, 'The Norm'. They won't get our attention to look at or buy anything they have to offer, I'm afraid.
I haven't even watched this vid all the way through, BTW. About a 1/4 to 1/3 is all I could take and I forced myself to do that because of the content.

:oldstry:

[Noisemaker]

For a young buck like me, I dig the video - very MTV and cool sounding Love Enya's voice second to My Bloody Valentines Belinda Butcher - and Rick just went 'whaaaaat???' :oldstry: The vid's as well done as any Suzuki or Audi car ad on TV these days. Certainly appreciate the direction and editing (Nick O. - was that you?) Slick, hip, and cool I say!

And not to plug my stuff - but if anyone from OR Googles/Bings 'Metalurge' - may I suggest 'Swank On Wheels' for possible background music. (Though it might make Rick beat me with his cane if you do. :good:) I'm not sure if I ripped off The Chemical Brothers, or they ripped me off? I think we were both around the same time with our 'train things'. Still say they have the best video - watch how the signals and scenery is timed to the music....



Poor Rick probably feels nauseous by now. :oldstry:

[thegrindre]

No comment... :good:

:oldstry:

[spud]

Rick,
just so you will not feel quite so lonely. As the younger crowd is so fond of saying .....


That SUKS!

reminds me of somebody with a disability.
And yes I know I'm not politically correct! So sue me!


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