So, during the editing process of Halo 3 Forge's 80th episode, I found a lot of stock footage from old episodes that was never used. Normally I delete this footage after I filter out the bloopers, but I had forgotten to do this in some 10 episodes early on.
So needless to say, I deleted all of those useless clips and freed nearly 50 gigabytes on my external hard-drive. With all of this space, I moved a large amount of video from my mac's hard-drive to the external to free some of the motherboard.
With all of this free space, I have recovered my once lost application "FXHome EffectsPro." A very expensive editing system used to make high quality effects such as explosions, laser beams, lightsabers, and the like. So you may (MAY) see some of these new effects come into play in future episodes.
Those of you who watched Halo 3 Forges from the beginning (back in 2007), may remember an episode where we blew up Atomic on the top of a tower. To make that happen, I used this same application.
In other news, I am traveling to college this week. It's a three day trip that we are expanding over 4 days, so after Monday night, I probably wont be on again until at LEAST Saturday night. During this trip I will be visiting Mackenzie however, so some may hear me online briefly if we can pull ourselves away from our Magic: The Gathering battles.
I have pre-ordered Halo: Reach, so it will be arriving at my dorm on the day of release. Yes, this means that I won't be able to join everyone in the fun at the midnight launch unfortunately. If it is late by even a day I will be royally pissed.
Finally we will be upgrading to a higher quality capture card. Soon I will be purchasing the BlackMagic Intensity (an HD capture card recommended by CMNeir). So we will now be filming in HD!!!
In recent months we changed our filming strategy to 2 times a week. When Reach comes out we will be continuing this new filming schedule, so episodes should be queued high enough for them to be released on a regular basis on youtube.
A lot is still going on in Game Over Studios, but this is the time to do it. See you all in REACH!
-Cameron
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Oh Good God it's Over!
8 total hours of editing time was spent on Halo 3 Forges (Ep. 80) "The Finale"
+ an overnight job of uploading the thing.
But I am quite satisfied with it. In it we'll be showing three maps that we wanted to get into the series, but couldn't due to various reasons.
After that, the episode will feature all the bloopers from Halo 3 Forges since we moved to Machinima.com, Which, as it turned out, was a lot.
And lastly we will be saying goodbye to Halo 3 with a short montage, and a little cliffhanger. Those of you who've watched us for a long time, may know what's coming next...
All I will say to those who haven't been around for so long, is that you can expect Halo Reach Forges to begin on, or very soon after the release date of Reach. We will most likely be filming on Day 1, or 2, or both. So episodes of Halo Reach Forges should reach the general youtube audience around the 22nd of September.
-Cameron
+ an overnight job of uploading the thing.
But I am quite satisfied with it. In it we'll be showing three maps that we wanted to get into the series, but couldn't due to various reasons.
After that, the episode will feature all the bloopers from Halo 3 Forges since we moved to Machinima.com, Which, as it turned out, was a lot.
And lastly we will be saying goodbye to Halo 3 with a short montage, and a little cliffhanger. Those of you who've watched us for a long time, may know what's coming next...
All I will say to those who haven't been around for so long, is that you can expect Halo Reach Forges to begin on, or very soon after the release date of Reach. We will most likely be filming on Day 1, or 2, or both. So episodes of Halo Reach Forges should reach the general youtube audience around the 22nd of September.
-Cameron
Monday, August 9, 2010
The end is simply another beginning
Game Over Studios' filming on Halo 3 has now officially ended.
Tonight we filmed our last episode of Halo 3 Forges, which is our last video that we will do on Halo 3 (To our knowledge).
It's been one hell of a ride, and I would like to thank all of those who have followed us from the time we were just a small studio releasing "Jackass' in Halo" videos. Over 100 episodes of our acclaimed show later, and we're still moving forward.
Halo: Reach is the future for us, and what a bright future it appears to be. Let's just hope Reach is all it's been said to be.
-Cameron
Tonight we filmed our last episode of Halo 3 Forges, which is our last video that we will do on Halo 3 (To our knowledge).
It's been one hell of a ride, and I would like to thank all of those who have followed us from the time we were just a small studio releasing "Jackass' in Halo" videos. Over 100 episodes of our acclaimed show later, and we're still moving forward.
Halo: Reach is the future for us, and what a bright future it appears to be. Let's just hope Reach is all it's been said to be.
-Cameron
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
And... CUT!
So a few nights ago we finished up our filming (map-wise) for Halo 3 Forges. We'll be having an extra episode saying our farewells to Halo 3 and Halo 3 Forges. Just as we did with our transition from Halo 2 to Halo 3, we'll be stepping into the teleporter to Reach.
This does mean that we are no longer looking for maps on Halo 3, so submitted maps will unfortunately be nulled. But to all those forgers out there, start preparing for Reach! We will need maps as soon as the game comes out!
We have enough episodes in que that should last us a good portion of the way to the release date of Reach, so not to worry, you'll be seeing plenty of us until then.
-Cameron
This does mean that we are no longer looking for maps on Halo 3, so submitted maps will unfortunately be nulled. But to all those forgers out there, start preparing for Reach! We will need maps as soon as the game comes out!
We have enough episodes in que that should last us a good portion of the way to the release date of Reach, so not to worry, you'll be seeing plenty of us until then.
-Cameron
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Wow... Already?
I was caught a little off guard recently by how soon Halo: Reach is coming out, thusly lowering our view count on our videos (at least that's what I hope, and that it's not the quality of the show).
Wolf and I recently looked over the maps we have left to film, and it was one of the few times I've ever heard Wolf say "We got nothing." Truly it seems that all of the big time forgers have decided to save their submissions for Reach. We actually have confirmations on this from several of the great forgers out there. It hit me then that I have to start planning for the end of Halo 3 Forges.
DO NOT PANIC. We are still continuing on with Halo: Reach Forges, and we will have several more episodes of Halo 3 Forges, in fact we are filming tonight with some of our last few maps.
I feel assured enough with our audience to announce that Halo 3 Forges will be ending at episode 80, which still has yet to be filmed. We will be filming episodes 78 and 79 tonight, and spending some more time focused on episode 80 before we release it. These episodes should all come out pretty timely with the release of Reach, so not to worry, H3F will still be releasing episodes almost to the release date of Reach.
We plan to have a "Farewell to Halo 3" episode from the GOS cast coming out as well. Along with a "Traveling to Reach" skit when the game is released.
"Halo Reach Forges" production will begin immediately upon the release of Halo: Reach. We know how fast the community will be working with the new Forge World, so we're gonna get our videos out as soon as possible, you can probably expect the first episode of "Halo Reach Forges" to be aired on youtube no later than 10 days from the release date of Halo Reach. Even our veteran forgers from within our own studio have plans for new maps that will hopefully be released on the show.
So that's the plan. We're gearin' up for Reach, and we hope you forgers out there are as well!
-Cameron
Wolf and I recently looked over the maps we have left to film, and it was one of the few times I've ever heard Wolf say "We got nothing." Truly it seems that all of the big time forgers have decided to save their submissions for Reach. We actually have confirmations on this from several of the great forgers out there. It hit me then that I have to start planning for the end of Halo 3 Forges.
DO NOT PANIC. We are still continuing on with Halo: Reach Forges, and we will have several more episodes of Halo 3 Forges, in fact we are filming tonight with some of our last few maps.
I feel assured enough with our audience to announce that Halo 3 Forges will be ending at episode 80, which still has yet to be filmed. We will be filming episodes 78 and 79 tonight, and spending some more time focused on episode 80 before we release it. These episodes should all come out pretty timely with the release of Reach, so not to worry, H3F will still be releasing episodes almost to the release date of Reach.
We plan to have a "Farewell to Halo 3" episode from the GOS cast coming out as well. Along with a "Traveling to Reach" skit when the game is released.
"Halo Reach Forges" production will begin immediately upon the release of Halo: Reach. We know how fast the community will be working with the new Forge World, so we're gonna get our videos out as soon as possible, you can probably expect the first episode of "Halo Reach Forges" to be aired on youtube no later than 10 days from the release date of Halo Reach. Even our veteran forgers from within our own studio have plans for new maps that will hopefully be released on the show.
So that's the plan. We're gearin' up for Reach, and we hope you forgers out there are as well!
-Cameron
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