(PlowBoy) wrote:

> Your vid reminds me of some vids I have archived from the days when
> GPL was populating the binaries

Yes, it was the early GPL movies which originally inspired me to make some flight
sim movies. There was some real talent at work back then. These days it's a little
easier to put a movie together (faster hardware to drive Fraps etc, and more
powerful, affordable editors) so it can be a lot harder to find the decent movies
among the rest on YouTube etc.

> I have ADD I think , I have tried to do some stuff like that
> with Windows movie maker, I lose interest after the 1st few
> clips and stuff...

The editing is the easy part (if very time-consuming) because "all" you're doing is
assembling the ingredients you've already brought to your virtual kitchen. The
inspiration for me usually comes from finding a piece of music which suggests an
idea and shape for a movie, then being motivated to sit down inside a sim and try
to get some really great clips recorded.

If I have any talent though it is for being anal retentive enough to
re-re-re-re-record scenes until I get a version I like. :-) What I lack, so far, is
the ability to go the extra mile (actually it's more like five!) and record
duplicates of *every* scene with the camera positioned for optimal sound recording.

Weird zooms and angles suffer from poor or inaccurate sound quality, and there are
only so many superficial cover-ups you can get away with. I try my best though. :->

Andrew McP