Star Wars Vid: Heroes of the Empire

[beccatoria]

Who releases a vid in an obscure fandom at nearly midnight on Christmas Eve? ME, THAT'S WHO. Because it's burning a hole in my HD.

So, MERRY CHRISTMAS! Have a vid!

Title: Heroes of the Empire
Video: Star Wars: the Clone Wars (animated series)
Audio: Joey Starr Wars // DJ Zebra
Summary: Explosions, lightsabers, the Imperial March and French rap. It's fun being a hero of the Empire.
Editor's Notes: No knowledge of the show is really necessary for this; I cannot claim it has a plot. What it has is lightsabers, explosions, lightsabers and more explosions. ;) Many thanks to kiki_miserychic and chaila43 for the beta!

Direct download available here. RightClickSaveAs. 34 megs approx.

Password: vidses

Watch on Vimeo

Cross-posted to vidding.

Other vids available here.

Comments

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

I found this comment from Christmas day. Sorry it's late!

Wow! That was like a trailer for the Clone Wars! Very, very exciting especially since I don't know the fandom. I especially like the split screen wipe thing. One day I'll have to ask you more about that!

And what a riff on the Emperial March! Really cool twist on a fandom we know well but in a whole different genre.

Very exciting!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Late comments are the best kind! :D

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I did want to use it to showcase how pretty the show is, though I'm not sure I could, in good conscience, tell people it was a work of genius and quality in telvision programming. ;)

The split screen wipe thing was actually reasonably easy, actually, once I learned how to do masks in Cinelerra. A mask like...a shape you cut out of a video clip, so, you know, I cut around the laughing head, or I cut a horizontal slice. Then you can also get them to change shape and move. So the screen wipes are just four different tracks playing at once, but each one is "masked" so that only that slice shows? Um...that may not be too useful though since I don't know how to do it in Vegas. Discussions with chaila43 suggest that it might be called "cookie cutter"?

Also yeah, the song is really awesome - I can't claim credit for it though - kiki_miserychic pointed me towards it!

Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed it!

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Ooh, advice on effects!!!! *bookmarks* After festivid, I'll get back to my other vid. And I'll keep 'cookie cutter' in mind. :-)

Thanks!