Re: Duel on the Delaware
 

As always, this event was run very well. Thank you to 316 and 365.

I want to congratulate Bob Foell on the Master Volunteer Award.

I always want to thank the members of my team that submitted and entry for me for the Master Volunteer Award. I was really touched by what they put in the entry.

Duel Master Volunteer Nominations
 

Per George's comments, we will be posting all six of the Duel Master Volunteer Award nominations on our website (hopefully by the end of this week), along with other awards and Personal Recognition recipients. I will announce with a note on CD when they are up.

Congratulations to all nominees!

Re: Duel on the Delaware
 

Hey John,

If that video gets put up on the website, could you let us know, too? I'd love to get my hands on that. I'm trying to build a collection of great videos to show parents and prospective teams. :)

If you can't get it on the website, I'd love to get a copy on a CD or DVD. I can send you blanks if needed.

The Duel Closing Video
 

I compressed the video down to 4MB and sent it to the web people... so it shouldn't be too long before it is up on the duel website. The quality isn't great, so if you are doing something where you need a better quality version, let me know and I'll see what I can do to get something out to you.

~Jake

Re: Duel on the Delaware
 

Congrats to 1721, 222, and 75 for your win at the Duel. You were an awesome alliance!

Thanks to 341 and 816 for inviting us to join your alliance. We had a great run until we met up with that bunch of 'losers', the #8 alliance! They just rolled through everybody!

Thanks, also, to John and your entire crew for the great time we all had, in spite of the weather. Can't wait for next year. (I'm collecting books already!)

Re: Duel on the Delaware
 

Chuck 84 ranks up there as one of our favorite competition partners of all time. Finalists at PARC 2002, Champions at Summer Frenzy, DoD Finalists and probably a few other partnerships that I am not remembering.
You guys are skilled, easy to work with, and fun. Whenever we hook up in the playoffs, we always seem to do well together.
It was another great run!!

Thanks again to you and to Team 816.

Re: Duel on the Delaware
 

The closing video is now available on the Duel website...

http://www.moe365.org/duel2005/duelhome.php

Re: Duel on the Delaware
 

Great video, but the audio quality seems low. (And yet the text is perfect, ahh the perils of using iMovie.)

Re: Duel on the Delaware
 

Thanks again for the video! I might be contacting you for a higher res version later, but I'd LOVE to know what song you used for the first part.

The second part sounds like something off my world of warcraft soundtrack, but I honestly didn't want to spend the effort verifying it.

Re: Duel on the Delaware
 

Attached is the List of Music I pulled together for the Duel... although I did not play all of the songs on there at the event.

Re: Duel on the Delaware
 

I posted some pics taken at the Duel in the Picture Gallery. These are low-res versions; if anyone would like a higher res version feel free to contact me. :D

Re: Duel on the Delaware
 

I actually used Adobe Premier Pro... the problem with the audio was my fault. The input levels of the two songs are really different, so I increased the volume of the 2nd song to make them sound about even, but I didn't check the levels. So according to Adobe, the 2nd song gets so loud the PCM uncompressed audio can't register it, so it cracks a couple of times. I could have fixed it if I paid closer attention to the audio levels, but meh.. such are the trials and tribulations of doing a video in such a short time period. Also, I compressed the audio using a really low quality mp3 codec 'cause the MOE web guys are really jumpy whenever I ask for video space.

The songs are (in order):
1) Rods and Cones by The Blue Man Group
2) Molossus by James Newton Howard (Batman Begins Soundtrack)

As for the text, I ran the output from Premier Pro through a couple of filters to deinterlace the raw DV footage off the camera I was using and shrink it down while preserving the image quality. The deinterlacing proceedure fixes those horizontal distortion bars you see sometimes during a high-motion clip.. the filter I used just blurs a few frames together to get rid of those lines. Since the text was created digitally, it wasn't interlaced, so the raw version of the text actually looks worse than the compressed, deinterlaced version. Another effect of me not paying enough attention to the video before rendering it.