[Equilibrium vid] Words of the Dead

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Words of the Dead | .avi (720x480, 29.9mb)
_{Source: Equilibrium
Song: "The Chemicals Between Us", by Bush
Summary: Preston's dead haunts him still (always).}

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Thanks: Much love to morgandawn, lierdumoa, and laurashapiro, for betas and audiencing and encouragement.


Chemicals Between Us by Bush

I want you to remember
A love so full
it could send us all ways

I want you to surrender
All my feelings rose today

And I want you to remain
The power of children can amaze
I'll try not to complain

I know that's a pisser baby

The chemicals between us
The walls that lie between us
Lying in this bed

The chemicals displaced
There is no lonelier state
Than lying in this bed

I want you to remember
Everything you said
Every driven word

Like a hammer
Held to my head

The chemicals between us
The walls that lie between us
Lying in this bed

The chemicals displaced
There is no lonelier face
Than lying in this bed

The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
Lying in this bed

We're of the hollow men
We are the naked ones
We never meant you harm
Never meant you wrong

And I'd like to thank
All of my
lovers
lovers
lovers
lovers
lovers
lovers

The chemicals between us
The army of achievers
Lying in this bed

The chemicals displaced
There is no lonelier state
Than lying in this bed

The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
Chemicals

The chemicals between us


Notes: This vid took both forever and 2 months. Or rather, 2 months stretched over the course of a year. I...gah, I give up. This really should've been done in Adobe After Effects, but I was crazy and stubborn and in the end too lazy to redo my work elsewhere.

My computer had it's revenge tho, in massive export problems. Fun times.

One of the most interesting problems was attempting to make the lyrics more audible with certain cuts. Dunno if the solutions succeeded, but it was an entertaining experiment in any case. Other interesting problems include trying to include massive amounts of relationships in only 4 min., the solution as near as I could make it is to basically have an intro section the length of an entire verse and chorus (PLUS the intro). Usually I'd only story intro during the song's intro, but the world I was trying to include was too big.

I...really really don't want to imagine attempting to remaster this sucker. ::facepalm:: Or at least, not before the next evolution of whatever programs' gonna replace After Effects. Because honestly: way. too. tedious.

I think...this is actually the first vid I posted this year. Wow, I'm lagging. ::wryyyyy::

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Comments

[mranderson71.livejournal.com]

*cut n pasted from my reply in Vidding*

That was a truly refreshing take on Equilibrium - I thorughly enjoyed watching that!

The ghosting effect was inspired & served your story telling aspect of the vid extremely well. Quality for the file size is impressive too...I see in the properties its Xvid but I didn't think it was possible to get a 3.50 song @ 720x480 in at 30 meg with that quality.

You could have probably shaved a meg or 2 by cropping the black & the top & bottom too, but still...Im in awe of the quality of this vid.

Nice job!

[permetaform]

=) thank you for the heads up about the image! unfortunately, I got home from the convention too late to cuttag the image and the post was deleted. I'll try to repost it again.

I'm glad that you thought it was a refreshing take! The problem with movie vids versus tv vids is that there's only about 2 hrs of source versus however many hours in a season, so the footage can get really old really fast if you're watching a lot of vids. I tried to compensate for that fact in this vid and am glad that it seemed to have worked!

Heh, I tried a version without the ghosting effect on my betas and they were confused by the story and the POV. It was a combination of self-preservation and insanity. ::wry grin::

The process that I used to encode my vid is that suggested by this tutorial. Xvid is actually based off of the Divx codec, so it should play on the DVD players that plays .avi's. Unfortunatly, the resolution of the movie is a wierd variant of widescreen (::rolls eyes:: can't they just make it consistent?), and so to prevent distortion I sized the vid's width up to 720 and added black bars to make it 480 vertically; which is the resolution of the basic TV monitor.

Thank you for your feedback, I've seen your name around and I think I saw one of your vids that morgandawn showed me.