Second Life Tours - Hanging out with Machinimator Aren Mandela (Michael Verdi)
Teleport Now to Aren’s Machinima Studio! - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Slackstreet/63/146/602/
I invited Aren Mandela (Michael Verdi) to meet me over at Ryce Broderick’s place to check out the Mefeedia Video Kiosk.
Today’s movie comes to us fresh from Mandela’s Lab after I had teleported (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Slackstreet/63/146/602/) there. At first, I couldn’t see a screen, but was instead in a perfectly white room. Then I heard a robot saying:
“Besides, I’m a freakin robot videoblogging from Second Life, and I’m hosting the video to Blip TV and posting on a Word Press Blog with an RSS feed and everything. I’m firing on all cylinders baby! It doesn’t get any more Web 2.0 than that.”
Hanging out at Ryce Broderick’s Place with Aren Mandala
Aren (Michael) using very sophisticated methods for his machinima, which like the more “traditional” Machinima you may have come across.
I will be covering these tools gradually, over the coming weeks and months, but I wanted to provide you with the necessary links now, just in case you felt like getting rolling on it yourself.
Here’s how he does it:
- Capture with iShowU (Mac only) using the photoJPEG codec on a Mac.
- Edit in Final Cut Pro with my sequence set to use the jpeg codec.
- Export still frames where someone is talking and use a program called Crazy Talk (PC only) to morph the mouths to follow the voice.
- Import the avi files from Crazy talk into Final Cut Pro, and keyframe the moving mouths over top of my moving video. (This part is very labor intensive.)
- Do the sound work - music, foley sound effects etc.
- Export to the various sizes you need for the web.
Remember to tag those Second Life Videos accordingly when you upload them to your favorite hosting site. Then make sure to Add the Feed to our Directory.See more in:second life, second life tours, secondlife, videobloggingweek2007
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