Portal Done Pro

Other Source Games and Mods
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That was simply a quality test of the direct capture source footage. That will be the highest possible quality for the video. The audio isn’t compressed at all, so I should get back some of those megs from that at least. The compression of the video above will be used for the “insane” quality video. Other videos will be quite differently encoded, but I’ll figure out how to jump that hurtle when I get there.

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According to vlc, the xvid compressed video is damaged in some way. MPC for instance doesn’t play it correctly. Just a heads-up.

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I didn’t have an issue with MPC. It plays just fine. Are you sure you have the latest Xvid codec? I don’t know why it wouldn’t work in VLC either.

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Portal Done Pro - Quality Test 2 - Chamber 8 - Third Person

http://www.filefront.com/17193297/Portal-Done-Pro---Quality-Test-2---Chamber-8---Third-Person.avi/

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Check this out while it lasts… :smiley:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LPSI6SQZ

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Haha, love it. Maybe speed it up a bit though?

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Done and done. Now 4 seconds faster!

Portal Done Pro - Title - Mockup2: http://www.filefront.com/17536352/Portal-Done-Pro-Title-Mockup2.avi/

Edit: I am fixing the interlacing issues, hopefully. I’ll put up Mockup3 when that is fixed.

Portal Done Pro - Title - Mockup3: http://www.filefront.com/17536682/Portal-Done-Pro-Title-Mockup3.avi/

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Nice intro =)

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Haha, wow that’s really awesome.

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Maybe you could have the pro come in, but the R and the O fall off, so the portals look kind of like a back-up plan?

Sick animation skills.

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It wouldn’t take me much time to do that, but I kinda like how I have it going for right now. I’m actually in the process of building the final video, so I’ll just stick with what I got. Maybe next project? (A Portal 2 speedrun, which I’d have to think up a catchy name for).

ADDITIONALLY, I finally got my first tattoo today. It is on my left leg, just above my inside ankle. I hope everyone likes it:

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Words cannot describe how awesome that is.

And yeah, I was just throwing ideas at you in case you hadn’t made up your mind yet.

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I’d add some sort of a velocity gradient towards the end of the animations (except for the portals). The abrupt stop of the text looks just weird if you ask me. Also, I think the sound you hear when the portal is shot comes too early. It feels like the time between the shooting sound and the portal actually being visible in the video is too long. Just my two cents.

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  1. Im not exactly sure what a velocity gradient is.
  2. This was done on purpose. They are suppose to be shot from a far distance off screen.

Thanks for the suggestions, but Ive already encoded all the different quality versions of the video. Ill will be hopefully releasing them next weekend after I make a commentary video.

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Can’t wait !!! :o

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Sorry. Didn’t get time to work on it today. Hopefully, sometime this week.

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Commentary video recorded!!!
I need to encode it (which will take a while), and then I can upload Portal Done Pro to YouTube and the commentary to YouTube.

I will be making a torrent for the different quality versions of Portal Done Pro. I have 4 flavors:

Low Quality: 768x480, 60 fps, 750 kbps Xvid, 128 kbps MP3 = 96 MB
Medium Quality: 1280x800, 60 fps, 3000 kbps Xvid, 192 kbps MP3 = 363 MB
High Quality: 1440x900, 60 fps, 7250 kbps Xvid, 256 kbps MP3 = 835 MB
Insane Quality: 1920x1200, 60 fps, 32250 kbps Xvid, 320 kbps MP3 = 3606 MB

The commentary will only be available on my YouTube account.