My EVE

It's nice and all but why don't you go capture your own footage instead of reusing ccp's?

I refuse to watch a pastiche of CCP's trailers.

Only one player ever managed to do them justice in recent times, as it was exceptional composition [If I can find the link].

I would be extremely interested in watching something you Fraps'd and put together though...

You could drop onto the test server for a few hours and Fraps all manner of pew pew and beauty shots to your hearts content, edit the hell out of it and probably get something together of serious interest.

But not this...

Deepest apologies.

My Jura Impressa broke this morning and I think you were one of many that got the brunt of the rage lynchpin that ensued.

Not making excuses, but illustrating one of the two possible reasons I replied the way I did.

Secondly, I really feel perhaps a little too strongly about these mock-ups than I should and you are one of many people which have done these over time, and one of many I have subsequently harshly criticized.

You will find I am one of the biggest supporters of original content, and have spent countless hours aiding and assisting people (where possible) in their goal to achieve a specific vision. That help has been technical, artistic and simplistic encouragement.

I stress original content, however, as it is this which the forums need more than anything; and it is that which needs the most encouragement as I hope you would agree.

Your reasons for using CCP footage are your own, and not mine to question - but I strongly recommend you move out of the casual Vegas experimentation and delve into creating something from scratch - the satisfaction will be higher, and the respect will be also. The other responses here are indicative of that.

Perhaps if you explained why you put this together and made specific points as to what it is precisely you wished to have criticism on, the general response might have been different.

If it was to experiment with a pretense of future editing, I hope I have not discouraged you in any way.

Apologies again.

AK

Thank you for accepting my apology and, I am pleased it has not.

The advanced camera controls are fiddly, for sure, but I doubt I could offer any new information to what you already understand yourself.

I did a chunk of tutorials waaaay back in '08, and the original post/thread is here I did have a eve-o wiki, but it got removed, probably because of some harse criticisim I dealt someone once. What goes around comes around eh?

The way I think about it is that the parent and target are two points in 3D space with the camera position being the thing that you are moving.

Experimenting with the distance between the target position and the camera position is what gives you the smoothness.

The greater the distance between the camera position and the target position, relative to the transversal velocity of the parent and target, is the factor which determines the tracking speed of the camera.

If the camera position is between the parent and the target, you will get a wrap-around effect at the apex of the radius relative to the parent, causing the camera to 'snap' 160-180 degrees until the distances increase again. Typically this will happen if your parent is orbiting a target, once every 360 degree rotation.

AK

Thanks :D I don't disagree with anything you said there. I'd love to be able to make some REALLY nice text effects with Adobe AE, however it seems a little bit above my skill level, and it's one of those programs where you have to lock yourself in a bunker for 3 years to fully master it xD

If anyone has any easy to understand tutorials that teach AE from scratch, I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks
XCyph