SDC Community - Preview Video - Parts 1 & 2
At times these videos can take a while to start. If that's the case you can visit my Youtube page direct here.
Here is the first official release of our "SDC members - DVD Project". Edited and mostly animated by myself. Music arranged, composed, and played by SDC member Brellis.
Download Options
The Youtube versions of this film are purely a way to preview the video here. I have made 2 further options available to download.
They is a "VCD MPEG file". Also a "DVD MPEG file". You can download and enjoy these on your PC's media player. Or if you have a CD or DVD burner you'll be able to easily produce a disc to watch on your TV/DVD player.
Download Here
VCD File Download Here ( Medium Res 72MB )
DVD File Download Here ( High Res 432MB )
These files are zipped up with "Win Rar" to reduce their size. Win Rar is available free Here. You will need it to unzip the video.
Please check your DVD player can play VCD's if you choose that file.
If you have any questions regarding the production of video discs, i would be happy to help. Just click on a link and post a question in one of the message boards mentioned and linked below.
About The Film
This is a Preview video which takes in many, but not all aspects of the project. The project is open to all, to do whatever feature they like ( space related of course ).
It is impossible to show everything we could expect on a final disc in a video at this early stage. However it does cover many on going space missions, Mars Express, MRO, MER, Cassini, New Horizons, Hubble, amateur astro photography, some of my own 3d computer generated views, and some experiments i did with 2d animations (new Horizons scenes).
99% of what you see is animated. There are infact 34 separate animated sequences! Which adds another dimension, even to still images.
Myself and Brellis have decided the best way to approach this whole thing is to have a web page where video is added. Then, annually we will take the best, most interesting etc video features and place them on a DVD video disc for release. This is better we feel than saying we have begun this project, then nobody seeing anything for months, or not being able to see they can contribute or maybe be inspired to join in in some way.
All features will, or should be made in full DVD resolution. So the transfer to disc will be easy when it becomes time to take site content and produce the disc. With my video i will be making it available as a "Google Video" or "Youtube" movie so anybody can check out the film instantly.
Then i will also be making higher res versions available. For the Preview video i have the windows you'll see here, a Video CD option, and a full resolution DVD MPEG file available to download.
The latter two options can be easily made into discs for home viewing on a TV, via a DVD player of course ( remember to check if your DVD player can play VCD's before going down that route.). In todays world there are other options of course, such as XBox media center, etc. If you have never burned a DVD or VCD before, please feel free to ask away here for help. By posting at the message boards on this site, or over at "this topic" at the Space.Com message boards.
A Big Thank You!
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who helped make this preview happen. From the hugely talented and generous Astro Photographers from Astronomy.Com ( look out for their fantasic, and stunning work on the preview, and their credits at movies end. ) To Brellis for his wonderful music score. Also thank you to the other musicians who have come forward and contributed, and who's work will feature here in future films.
Without them, this would be a quiet, and dull project.
It is also inspiring to see just how well, and how far, and in how much detail we can see into space from our own back yards. Which is why i was so glad to see contributions from Astro Photographers. It gives all of us, who may just not make it into space, hope. That we can explore, and see the cosmos with our own eyes.
