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Since there’s been quite a few of these threads morf and I thought there might be interest in a version for moviemaking. I always get people messaging me on IRC or Steam wanting help with moviemaking, so hopefully this will be helpful to some people. You can ask us anything from the basics to more technical things like 3D, but make sure you check out the tutorials on pldx first!

I mainly use Sony Vegas and a little After Effects for text animations etc, and Morf uses After Effects for the majority of his movies.

morf’s are better

Like for example in your movies/ subtitle’s movies as well you can’t really find that much sync, just few places or even there aren’t anything. Why is everyone liking your/ subtitle’s movies and for example not others who did the same basically, like decent music, frags and was a nice movie overall. Like maybe the kills aren’t that great or the smooths/ thirdperson views which makes the movie better and nicer to watch or smth.

In short: How to make a nice movie without any really sync but really nice to watch?

Quoted from huhystah

Like for example in your movies/ subtitle’s movies as well you can’t really find that much sync, just few places or even there aren’t anything. Why is everyone liking your/ subtitle’s movies and for example not others who did the same basically, like decent music, frags and was a nice movie overall. Like maybe the kills aren’t that great or the smooths/ thirdperson views which makes the movie better and nicer to watch or smth.

In short: How to make a nice movie without any really sync but really nice to watch?

Loads of sync in the MmM movie by subtitled

I fail at using the pldx tool and virtual dub, do you do mentoring? :D

What is your favourite frag movie of all time?

edit: Your favourite TF2 frag vid and then you’r favourite outside of TF2.

Can you post your rendering settings in Sony Vegas?

Quoted from tesco

also, i know, morf is experimenting with a cod4 movie – at least, he told me that a few weeks ago – how’s it going?

I recorded a few clips but I got my hands on another project so I didn’t really put my mind to it.

Quoted from toogyboogy

I fail at using the pldx tool and virtual dub, do you do mentoring? :D

What is it you’re having trouble with?

Quoted from LikeThis

oh this is awesome!

Is there any third party plugins/effects that you couldn’t edit without?

What’s the secret to awesome transitions?

What’s the biggest mistake people make when using colour corrections?

Do you use any sort of filing system for the demos people send you? Care to share some tips about that? :)

Probably not, you can achieve close to the same result with default effects in After Effects as you can in Magic Bullet Looks, although I prefer using Looks as it offers a better interface and a wider variety.

Not really sure, a smooth is a pretty much a solid transition as long as it is in context with the present footage.

Alter the colours too much, the default colours in TF2 are really crisp when adding a simple and cool colour grading. I always try to make the beautiful colours pop and that’s about it.

Not really, the only “sorting” I use is the way I entitle the demofiles; map_playername_area_action_tick (although I prefer saving all the ticks in a separate .txt for some reason).

Quoted from M24_

What is your favourite frag movie of all time?

edit: Your favourite TF2 frag vid and then you’r favourite outside of TF2.

– Yoyotech for TF2-movie. Definately The Contenders 2 for outsider, hands down.