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Yoshi348: 2007-11-21 01:25:26 am
zoid recently knocked down the hard any % record (among several others) in metroid prime.

he selected this run to be made into a video. now, i warned him that being in graduate school with papers to grade and research to do and what have you, i really don't have the time anymore to be making these insanely awesome videos like i used to back in the day.

but, lucky for him and for all of you, i had an idea: i wondered whether i could write something in python that would plug into avisynth and cut out 95% of the labor involved in making such a video ...

to make a long story short, i could, and i did.

the extremely quick-and-dirty script from a non-programmer picked out 833 clips from zoid's run, which i then imported into imovie and sorted through, deleting just under half of them.

by sheer coincidence, the length of the remaining clips almost exactly matched the length of the song zoid had requested the video be built around. now the only thing left was to add text overlays and make some minor adjustments to the clip order and bam, a brand new, full-length m2k2sda promo video made in an afternoon.

i've treated the video with all of my present-day encoding knowledge (if you can play full resolution, full framerate video, then the high quality is highly recommended!!), and i couldn't be more pleased to present the new video in the six qualities below (and be sure to spread around the google video/youtube links!):

H.264  MPEG-4: Medium Quality
H.264  MPEG-4: High Quality
H.264  MPEG-4: Insane Quality
H.264  MPEG-4: Low Quality

DivX AVI: Medium Quality
DivX AVI: Low Quality

Google Video
YouTube

viel spa�!
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THAT WAS AWESOME!  And I'll definitely have to watch it again when I don't have a 101.8 fever.  I so cannot wait to see the run.
more automation !

great job.
Very nice. 8-) Makes me want to make another stab at Prime pretty soon, even though I just played it within the last few weeks.
I'm currently playing through Prime (again…), so this was very fun to watch.
Strategy Guide Writer
Nice video! :D

Is that the Ferry Corsten or DJ Tiesti remix of Adagio for Strings you used?
check the end of the video. ;P
Strategy Guide Writer
Quote from nate:
check the end of the video. ;P

>_> <_<

*runz*
wow, great job nate.
that music video is very cool done :D
thanks
Bananas GOOD, Kremlings BAD
Overall a nice video.  The individual segment lengths seem a little too short for me.  As soon as my eyes adjust to one segment, the next one comes up.  Also, maybe it could also have some fade-in transitions put into it.
thanks zoid. and yeah tjp, i guess it's good i didn't use the half bar clip length like i was thinking about. ;P
my umbrella goes directly to Bankai
hmm what a coincidence. just yesterday i was thinking about how much could be shaved off the hard any% run and i was expecting exactly 1:15 as the final time :p
everybody knows it's true
Mind if this becomes a Gamespot user video, will all credit given?
I love it. great job.
keks
Quote from Mr. Aran:
Mind if this becomes a Gamespot user video, will all credit given?

of course not. spread the word!
everybody knows it's true
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