Serious Youtube Channel

HughHugh CameramanSan Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
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<div class="IPBDescription">How can I help?</div>Hi everyone, I've started up an NS2 youtube channel devoted to spreading the word about this game. If you have any ideas about how I can help promote, let me know in this thread, by forum PM, or by youtube PM and I will try to include it in the channel. For example, if you have a great gameplay video or a website/blog you'd like promoted.

Check out the channel, link in sig.
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  • peregrinusperegrinus Join Date: 2010-07-16 Member: 72445Members
    Nice channel.

    Your game runs so smoothly!
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  • PrefixPrefix Éirinn go Brách Join Date: 2006-12-31 Member: 59353Members, Constellation
    What hardware you running on?
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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    Thanks Peregrinus,

    Prefix one of the PCs is an AMD 1090T with an ATI 5870 and the other is an Intel E8400 with SLI GTX 260s. Saved forever to build the hex-core, luckily timed it just right for NS2! The nVidia box is my bro's.
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Ya almost made me do another Joker comic, Seriously!


    Might wannah put some more emphasis on the fact it is still alpha, some of those might make people go... "wtf is whit laggy crap"

    Other then that, good show sir!
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  • SewlekSewlek The programmer previously known as Schimmel Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16247Members, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, Subnautica Developer
    good channel
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  • peregrinusperegrinus Join Date: 2010-07-16 Member: 72445Members
    The devs made a post about your channel on the ns2 twitter - congrats!
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  • salorsalor Join Date: 2004-02-21 Member: 26771Members
    yeah, grats on the plug from the devs!
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  • PsiWarpPsiWarp Gifted Gorge Richmond, B.C., Canada Join Date: 2010-08-28 Member: 73810Members
    Love your channel, keep up the good work!
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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    Wow, thankyou to the Dev team for the tweet! I don't think I deserved it but I'll sure try to live up to it now.

    If anyone has an idea for a video they'd like to see, jump over and spam my channel comments and I'll put it up! Oh and of course if I've got any information wrong, spam me for that too!
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  • MotherGooseMotherGoose Join Date: 2002-03-12 Member: 308Members, Constellation
    well done NS2HD :D

    hope your happy with the background image, it was my pleasure.

    I'd be more than happy to do some more work for you upon request.
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  • GISPGISP Battle Gorge Denmark Join Date: 2004-03-20 Member: 27460Members, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, Squad Five Gold, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Gold, Subnautica Playtester, Forum staff
    keep em coming :)
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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    edited September 2010
    Thanks again for the graphic Mothergoose, it looks much better than the old one.

    Will do GISP, I'm working on doing one every two days on weekdays and three on weekends. Although if there isn't a new patch soon I might [not] be able to crank out new ones for much longer.... If anyone has any ideas for what they want to see, be sure to let me know!

    EDIT: Expression ([])
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  • GISPGISP Battle Gorge Denmark Join Date: 2004-03-20 Member: 27460Members, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, Squad Five Gold, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Gold, Subnautica Playtester, Forum staff
    Dont make videos just to make videos, make em interesting.. gotta "catch the players". Just make a new video every so offen telling whats new in patch.xxx.
    I dunno if you plan on doing commentary like HDStarCraft or Husky, but that would be the natural <i>(selection)</i> way to go when we are getting closer to beta and actual games are being played.
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited September 2010
    What kind of compression are you using there when uploading these 1080p video's? I think YouTube is doing some very weird things to your 1080p video's, which also degrade the 720p vids...

    For 720p I always use a VBR of 9-12Mb/s @ 30fps (with stereo ACC audio) and these vids come out cristal clear. But when I view the YouTube generated 720p vids on NS2HD, they look like they have a very high compression. I think ya might want to up the quality or something on the 1080p vids to also help YouTube give better results for their 720p version.


    Hell I don't feel like downloading one of mah vids (dad's sport site) to see what YouTube actually does to the 720p stream vid they create. But I heard the bitrate goes down to about 2-4Mb/s? Which is obviously nowhere near what 720p should be of course. But compressing down from your 1080p vids and resizing them, this is where the quality loss might occur. This is all a headsup, but then again...

    Here we go again (rant mode continues)

    In the future YouTube might up their birate I guess... Which might make this compression problem go away...
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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    Kouji San I was thinking the very same thing... I am using 10mb/s WMV and was considering switching to 10mb/s H.264 to try and improve the 1080p quality. Youtube does in fact use huge compression, 2mb/s 720p and 4mb/s 1080p... So I am not sure upping the WMV bitrate, or switching to H.264 will achieve much. Personally I am only seeing bad compression artifacts in contiguous colour spaces (i.e. the shadows that are common in NS2 maps).

    Further input from anyone on this would be much appreciated, as I would jump on any chance to improve the 'HD' in NS2HD!

    (I am in fact considering doing a 4k release just for kicks!)
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited September 2010
    Well H.264 usually looks much more crisp then wmv compression. Since you are using a similar bitrate as me but instead on 1080p, this might be the cause why the compression on the 720p is of such a blocky quality.

    I think going up to 15Mb/s or maybe even 25-30Mb/s (which is the normal 1080i minimum I believe, TrueHD 1080p is much higher still) could do the trick. It will probably help compressing down to their fake 720p with more available data per frame. Since 1080p is higher then 720p, using a similar (to lowend) bitrate (10Mb/s) is probably hurting your individual frames


    Not sure how big the files will get though <img src="http://members.home.nl/m.borgman/ns-forum/smileys/wink.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <!--sizeo:1--><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><i><new smiley</i><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->
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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    I might give it a go, but going 11mb/s over their bit rate in the same format shouldn't make any difference. Whether I upload in H.264/VC-1 10mb/s or 15mb/s, YoutTube still converts it to 4mb/s H.264.

    Ahh the joys of technology. I suppose it is an excuse to burn up all six cores for a few hours!
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    <!--quoteo(post=1798843:date=Sep 17 2010, 01:25 AM:name=NS2HD)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NS2HD @ Sep 17 2010, 01:25 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1798843"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I suppose it is an excuse to burn up all six cores for a few hours!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Burn em good ya hear!
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  • myangwangmyangwang Join Date: 2010-09-17 Member: 74064Members
    Maybe to those Social Networking Sites.
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  • JediYoshiJediYoshi The Cupcake Boss Join Date: 2002-05-27 Member: 674Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1798783:date=Sep 16 2010, 08:38 AM:name=NS2HD)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NS2HD @ Sep 16 2010, 08:38 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1798783"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->(I am in fact considering doing a 4k release just for kicks!)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I was planning on doing a couple seconds of 4k video with the cinematic editor. It rendered about 2 seconds of footage at the default fps before trying to kill itself xD
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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    Yes, the cinematic editor seems to choke on producing larger files. Anyway, I'm going to put NS2HD on hold until build 152. I feel I've exhausted reporting on build 151.
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  • Yak9UTYak9UT Join Date: 2010-06-18 Member: 72086Members
    Subscribed to your Youtube page. Good to see other Aussies who have also preordered Natural Selection 2. Keep up the good work.
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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    Thanks Yak9UT. Hopefully build 152 will come soon and I can make your subscription worthwhile :)
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  • SentrySteveSentrySteve .txt Join Date: 2002-03-09 Member: 290Members, Constellation
    It's cool how you've been able to create meaningful content, at a somewhat constant rate, based off so little information and updates.
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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    edited October 2010
    Whoah whoah whoah, very exciting... I'd heard it was impossible to render 4k (that's <b>4096 x 3072</b>) resolution in Spark in the cinematic editor. But I just successfully rendered 120 frames in 4k.

    I'm going to try to put together a 4k video to showcase Spark in the most amazing quality possible. Let's hope I can successfully encode it. It's 2 GIGAbytes per second!
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  • SgtBarlowSgtBarlow Level Designer Join Date: 2003-11-13 Member: 22749Members, NS2 Developer
    Thats great if you can work with that res, gives you loads of room to creat camera shakes, screen pans, fake zoom on stuff if you scale the captures by half and them scale back upto 1:1 and so on all rollable into 1080 for uTube. :D
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Just out of curiosity here, What are your specs anyways. Seems you have some kind of plutonium powered rig or something <img src="http://members.home.nl/m.borgman/ns-forum/smileys/biggrin.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
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  • SN.WolfSN.Wolf Join Date: 2010-03-29 Member: 71115Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1802484:date=Oct 23 2010, 11:56 AM:name=Kouji_San)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kouji_San @ Oct 23 2010, 11:56 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1802484"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Just out of curiosity here, What are your specs anyways. Seems you have some kind of plutonium powered rig or something <img src="http://members.home.nl/m.borgman/ns-forum/smileys/biggrin.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    lol, i was thinking the same. I believe he posted the specs on his you-tube page but i picture a heat signature visible from the moon.
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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    Haha it's actually quite cool running... an AMD 1090T / AMD 5870 / 8Gb ram / several hard drives for editing (No raid though) is the one I use mostly.

    Unfortunately I ran into a big snag with 4k: I use Adobe Premiere CS4 to edit, and it can't handle 4096 x 3072 resolution. You can get REDcode plugins but I can't convert into RED.

    Oh well... Going to try to save up for the education edition of CS5 (who could possibly afford the non-edu edition... Bloody hell!), because apparently it can handle more types of 4k.
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  • SN.WolfSN.Wolf Join Date: 2010-03-29 Member: 71115Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1802523:date=Oct 23 2010, 07:20 PM:name=NS2HD)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NS2HD @ Oct 23 2010, 07:20 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1802523"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Haha it's actually quite cool running... an AMD 1090T / AMD 5870 / 8Gb ram / several hard drives for editing (No raid though) is the one I use mostly.

    Unfortunately I ran into a big snag with 4k: I use Adobe Premiere CS4 to edit, and it can't handle 4096 x 3072 resolution. You can get REDcode plugins but I can't convert into RED.

    Oh well... Going to try to save up for the education edition of CS5 (who could possibly afford the non-edu edition... Bloody hell!), because apparently it can handle more types of 4k.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's only $900 us if you upgrade...lol
    how about Aura,Lumina or Deep Paint. they work with red and i think even raw?
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