I didn't think I'd ever get it to download on the connection I have for the weekend, but wow, it worked!
Well now, what was sobering. I'm kinda speechless now. Gotta say though, that is very much what I figured it'd be like for me at the end, so it sort of felt like I was seeing my own future. Unless the Rikti are attacking AP33 at that time. Interesting thing about us MMO gamers. The rest of the world has only pondered over what they would do if they knew the world was ending (even Y2K really didn't have that much fear to it by the time Dec 31st came). We're actually going to live through it.
Are you just typing the full address of your vid into a search engine in order to find these 'other' forums? YT seems largely useless for showing where a video has been linked.
And... heh. You just made me shudder at the kind of flak I'm going to get on my next vid (which sadly I had hoped to get out this weekend, but alas, Premiere wasn't "in the mood" for cooperating). I'm someone who has only done comedic voices in the past, and now I'm trying an emotionally serious role for the first time, with no clue if I'm any good at it (and I hate the sound of my voice). As for Youtube though, you sure nobody tried to rip it apart? When the Unity Rally vid hit the news sites, I was certain my YT channel was going to turn into a warzone, but the community did a great job policing it. Any attempt to start a flame war was voted out of sight within hours. That said, pleeeeeease let us "police" the forums that are starting in on this video. 
How long did it take you to get all the shots for that collage from the Atlas statue? And ugh, now I'm going to have to really sift through it. Did you use anything from when you were taking clips of us at the cape party under the statue a couple weeks ago? I vaguely remember you pulling out the camera and saying you were working on this.
YT's Statistics feature lets me see (somewhat) where my traffic is coming from - both the "Playback Location" and "Traffic Sources" are good starts. By now, if I see a site like MMORPG.NET or whatnot, it's usually on their forums, and I just go to the COH section.
As far as the comments on the actual vid on YT, what you see there is what I've gotten. Comments are set for approval first because a while back, some moron was spamming all my comment sections with obscenity, hate mail, etc (and yes, it was directed at ME, not just some random drive-by flaming). But if someone comes on and says, "I didn't like it", I approve it (several of my videos have lengthy negative opinions). On the YT vid itself, nothing but positive so far.
The flybys under Atlas were from the day where I ran around to as many servers as I could (including a couple folks who went to their own servers to get footage for me), told everyone:
"Okay, stand under Atlas. I'm gonna count down from five... when I say GO, fly/run/teleport/superspeed/superjump/hoverboard/whatever in a random direction and don't stop til you hit a War Wall."
I'd count down, say GO, and off they went.
Step 1: Demoedit Jo saluting in each of them, and set all of them to the same in-game time (5pm)
Step 2: Use Zloth's Demo Editing app to enforce the camera circling motion on each.
Step 3: Render each demofile as JPGs, then recompile them in VirtualDub as AVIs.
Step 4: Add all the AVI files to one project in Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 and set them all to 50% transparency so I could see everyone flying off at the same time.
Step 5: Re-arrange and trim the footage so that as the camera panned around, heroes were visible in each shot, and each server got used.
Step 6: Turn off the transparency, fade one segment into the next, and render. Voila.
As for using the footage I shot at the Unity Rally, yes and no - thanks to me demoediting all 33 of the Atlas Parks (thanks again, Hit Streak!), and using Leandro's character extraction programs, I now have a HUGE repository of characters... but the end shot I wanted to use was swapped instead for the AP flybys.
The original endshot - 8080 unique heroes, villains, rogues, and vigilantes forming the City of Heroes skyline and the COH logo beneath it. Yes, you read that right - EIGHT THOUSAND different characters. Unlike Leandro's computer, mine could handle it.
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