Gyrene Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 I've recently found some old combat footage that shows 3 M8 HMC's & what looks like a Sherman 76 shooting it out with unspecified foes. The quality is little grainy and the film has some damage, but the action shots are pretty good. You can get the QuickTime clip here (2.7MB) Gyrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMplayer Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 Great stuff! I hope you *ahem* find lots more footage like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pvt. Ryan Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 That camera man sure had some cajones to stand in the line of fire like that. We can only hope that someday CM will look as realistic as this actual combat footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMplayer Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 By the way, I'm really impressed by the daring positioning of the cameraman. Unusual to say the least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted November 2, 2001 Author Share Posted November 2, 2001 Hehehe, those combat cameramen were some ballsy fellows, I tell ya. Gyrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMplayer Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 By the way, this ought to be proof that using cheap M8 Howies for scouting is historical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted November 2, 2001 Author Share Posted November 2, 2001 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr> By the way, this ought to be proof that using cheap M8 Howies for scouting is historical. <hr></blockquote> Hmmm....You got something going there...If I could "find" the right films I could prove all kinds of gamey, er I mean historical theories of mine... Gyrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argie Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 IIRC, M8 were supposed to be the support weapons on cavalry formations. And cavalry did scouting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offtaskagain Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 How did you make this clip? A friend and I were thinking about trying to do the same for our film class. We've tried hooking his PC up to a VCR and recording but it only does black and white with no sound. That actually looked kind of cool because it looks historical, but I want to know how you got the jumpy frames and grainy faded look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conscript Bagger Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 so I guess M8's have their gas tanks in front, unlike a Pinto... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameroon Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by panzerwerfer42: How did you make this clip? A friend and I were thinking about trying to do the same for our film class. We've tried hooking his PC up to a VCR and recording but it only does black and white with no sound. That actually looked kind of cool because it looks historical, but I want to know how you got the jumpy frames and grainy faded look.<hr></blockquote> Well I don't know about the effects (though various Adobe products probably factored in), but the actual recording was probably done with Snapz Pro (for those Mac users out there, Ambrosia SW). It's the only Mac product I know of that could record the gameplay like that. Of course, I could be wildly wrong on what was used, but I feel pretty confident Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted November 3, 2001 Author Share Posted November 3, 2001 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>How did you make this clip? A friend and I were thinking about trying to do the same for our film class. We've tried hooking his PC up to a VCR and recording but it only does black and white with no sound. That actually looked kind of cool because it looks historical, but I want to know how you got the jumpy frames and grainy faded look. <hr></blockquote> Cameroon is right, after a lot of trial and error I found the right settings to capture video with SnapzPro2, the source footage is of much higher quality than this small web clip and I'm able to capture fairly large battles at 20 fps. The clips were spliced in Premiere and the tint , hit flashes & camera bob/focus were done in After Effects with native filters; the film grain/skip was done in AE with the Digieffects Film Damage filter. I did all this on my Dual Processor G4-533 with 768Mb of RAM, with 600Mb allocated to After Effects & Premiere (VM on, one app at a time) The final clip weighed in at over 120MB with the high settings I used in AE, so I put the clip through MediaCleaner and got it down to 2.7MB for the web. I guess I'll give a try at putting a soundtrack in, I'll use iMovie2 just to try it out. I was thinking of making a "Greatest Hits" CM video, so If anyone has any weird/cool CM movies send them over and I'll add them, maybe even make a new intro movie Mod. It's about the only Mod left. I guess I should finish my train track mod first, though... Gyrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Gyrene: I was thinking of making a "Greatest Hits" CM video, so If anyone has any weird/cool CM movies send them over and I'll add them, maybe even make a new intro movie Mod. It's about the only Mod left. Gyrene<hr></blockquote> LOL! Can't wait to see it! Time for CMBB already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodman Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 hey Gyrene well done. Looks like that camera man sure was a very brave man. Bodman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogface21 Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 I had to DL Quicktime to see it, but it was well worth it! Are you going to do the entire movie? A shot by shot recreation would be awsome, especially with the newer mods and graphics, I like the effects you added,er, found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted November 3, 2001 Author Share Posted November 3, 2001 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr> I had to DL Quicktime to see it, but it was well worth it! <hr></blockquote> As an added bonus you can now see CM's intro movie. I'm thinking of making an entire mini movie, but the only problem is to keep it small enough to be able to host is and share it, 1000.mov, CM's intro movie, is almost 45MB. I'll have to keep it much smaller than that. I need to find some suitable music also, I think "Surfing Bird" is right out. The theme from Band of Brothers would be nice. To those combat cameramen the right angle was worth more than their lives. Gyrene [ 11-03-2001: Message edited by: Gyrene ]</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argie Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 Gyrene, I did a few tries with Snapz Pro long time ago in my G4/400 320mb RAM, and didn't come close to what you get... What settings have you used? Have you tried in a Mac less capable, more like mine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogface21 Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 I think some bad early 90's speed metal would go well with the artillery barrage scenes, or just the theme to Hogans Heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 Gyrene, as for sound track music, some of the bits of the old Victory at Sea tv show sound track would make for a thrilling background. You might also look into the symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich, especially Symphony No. 5. After we get into CMBB, Symphony No. 7 would be an appropriate selection. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted November 3, 2001 Author Share Posted November 3, 2001 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr> Gyrene, I did a few tries with Snapz Pro long time ago in my G4/400 320mb RAM, and didn't come close to what you get... What settings have you used? Have you tried in a Mac less capable, more like mine?<hr></blockquote> Argie, your 400mhz G4 should have been plenty, as I've had some success capturing video with my 333mhz iMac also. The settings and some other tweaks are key, I'll post a quick tutorial soon. I've uploaded an improved version of the film btw, the image is sharper and the scene the the first M8 getting hit was improved as it was bugging me. Michael, thanks for the hints on the music, I guess I could go through some of those songs in the Military Music mp3 site and try to find something also. Gyrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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