Promo Video

Well, I completed the promo video yesterday. Really pleased with it.

(More techie stuff follows...)

As it turned out, FFmpeg does not paste together .mov files. Therefore, to create the movie, I decided to export clips to sequences of .png frames. I then coded some quick software to order these properly and insert some basic information stills.

The music is the Surrounded! theme, played from Surrounded! but with a different MIDI instrument. That's using one of the secret codes I have put in place... I played it through my PC and recorded it via Audacity.

How did I do the video effects at the beginning without movie-clip software? Well, I already have paint software (I'm still using the now-archaic Corel PhotoPaint 8), so I took the still and applied different percentages of filters (Gaussian blur and "Impressionist") a frame at a time. It really didn't take that long at all (faster than it would have taken me to script it).

To piece it back together, I used FFmpeg again, using the regenerated, resized, reordered PNGs plus the .wav recording of the midi playback.