startup video HoloButton Startup 1.1.0

Looks terrific, great work.

On 4/22/2017 at 0:02 AM, KLoNe said:

Looks terrific, great work.

Thank you :-)

OMG Love It!

I like the idea but is too short

Awesome work. Was this from scratch?

I'm left curious what it would look like without the hand though.

40 minutes ago, dilladog said:

Awesome work. Was this from scratch?

Thank you. Not 100% from scratch, I started with a template from AfterFX to render the actual video bit. Then I used a video editor to edit the output. I did all of the soundfx myself, using a recording of radio tuning, a piano, and then I took one of the startup sounds from BigBox "Initializing BigBox". I had to speed up and slow down different parts of the output render from AfterFX, and added some filters to parts to make some of the neon light stuff "pop" a little more. And I added a bit of a blurred out effect to the logo towards the end, to make it feel a little bit more like it was fading into the the BigBox theme (fade to black didn't look right). Oh, I guess I also had to edit the AfterFX template too, had to make some modifications to the way it rendered the logo, which was a bit lame because it takes a long time to render and I ended up having to do it 3 times, but I think it was worth it in the end.

The hand was part of the initial template, and I no longer have AfterFX (used a trial), so can't really comment on how it might look without the hand unfortunatley.

8 minutes ago, Pyrometheous said:

I no longer have AfterFX

Do you still have the original files and willing to share?

41 minutes ago, dilladog said:

Do you still have the original files and willing to share?

It may not be organized the best, but this is where I put all of the assets. Some concepts and ditched ideas are in there too. https://www.freesound.org/ is typically where I go for sound FX, and a lot of the time I'll get royalty free music from YouTube's creator studio. I also tend to use Blender 3D for most of my video asset renders, and I use Vegas for video editing (although, I think I used Corel for the BigBox stuff). I use Audacity for audio edits, and GIMP for image edits.

My idea was to make an intro that would be short and used as a startup animation, something that would make an HTPC feel more like a game console when you turn on your PC. I went through a few different ideas and finally settled on this one, because I thought it looked cool. Anyway here are all of my intro video assets, feel free to mess around with them and let me know what you come up with :-)

@Juicebag85 I think I fixed it, download the new one and let me know what you think.

 

 

Edited January 29, 2018 by Pyrometheous

48 minutes ago, Pyrometheous said:

@Juicebag85 I think I fixed it, download the new one and let me know what you think.

Perfect! Just how I imagined.

I like the look of this one quite a bit, but you need to up your bitrate - you've got a ton of compression artifacts going on here that really mar an otherwise great video.

On 10/6/2017 at 11:07 AM, Zombeaver said:

I like the look of this one quite a bit, but you need to up your bitrate - you've got a ton of compression artifacts going on here that really mar an otherwise great video.

Unfortunately I no longer have Adobe AfterFX, so I can't re-render it. The ending on version 2 was an edit I did by taking a screenshot of the "cleanest" looking part of the video, and having it sit as a final frame instead of having the zoom out effect where it went kinda pixelated at the end.

This has become my new startup video. It is so cool! Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

The YouTube video is showing as private now.