Archive for juni, 2009

Current project: Libitínas Lost Love

mandag, juni 22nd, 2009

Greetings young traveller!

I am currently working on a storybased intro. Now when I say intro the original thought was to make a pvp video but I don’t know if I want to do this.

Libitínas Lost Love is a story about a human female, citizen of Stratholme,  who look back on the Plague of Undeath and how she became infected. Uncured she rise as an undead breaks free from the Scourge and joins the Forsaken. Her human name is forgotten and her undead name Libitína have become a synomyous for death.

I’ve already captured most of the footage to be used in this movie and a test of it have already been made. I’m still not quite satisfied with the transitions yet and I still need to describe more through figurative language plus some subtitles. This project will be edited in After Effects instead of Premiere but will still use the H.264 codec.

How to: Render

fredag, juni 19th, 2009

Hi you!

In this blog I’ll show you how I render my videos. I personally find Fraps the best tool to capture the raw unrendered video. I shoot at 30fps and in fullscreen. Most times I have sound captured aswell because you never know when something awesome will blast out. I use 4 gb pr 2:16min with these settings.

Now for the actual rendering part. I use Adobe Premiere CS4 for this and I’m using the H.264 format. The composition is set to be 1280×720. I’ll just skip the storytelling and list the hard facts:

Video:

Codec: MainConcept H.264 video

TV Standard: NTSC

Frame Width: 1280

Frame Height: 720

Frame Rate: 30

Field Order: None (Progressive)

Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels

Audio:

Codec: AAC

Output Channels: Stereo

Frequency: 48 kHz

Audio Quality: High

Bitrate: 192

I personally prefer to have to use VBR, 2 Pass, Target 6,00 Max 10,00 Mbps.

Now I even took a screendump so you can see it

There you have it. Now go out and have some fun :)

Assembly of Iron heroic hardmode

onsdag, juni 17th, 2009

Furious Few killed Assembly of Iron heroic hardmode 15th of June 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWSyElaEWaw

Since this is hardmode you’ll need to know a bit about the fight.

Steelbreaker, an Iron Giant, is a very hard hitter, and has a raid-wide AoE. His tank and the healers assigned to the tank will need to watch for Fusion Punches, which might kill the tank in seconds. Molgeim will also cast Runes of Power, which look like big blue circles on the ground, underneath Steelbreaker – they increase his damage, therefore the tank must move him out of them, and allow the DPS to enter (similarly to Malygos’ sparks). After the first Supercharge (1 boss down), Steelbreaker will gain an AoE that increases Nature damage taken, so all raid members will need to watch for it. The second Supercharge (2 bosses down, Steelbreaker is the last one alive), Steelbreaker will debuff his tank with a debuff that causes the tank to die after 30 seconds, so the raid will need to have other tanks ready.

Fusion Punch – Inflicts 18,850 to 21,150 (Heroic: 35,000) Nature damage to his target, and deals additional 15,000 (Heroic: 20,000) Nature damage every 1 second, for 4 seconds.

2nd Supercharge – Meltdown – Causes the target to die, dealing 29,250 to 30,750 Nature damage to friendly units within 15 yards.

Knowing this, you’ll see in the video that I’m trying to save Power word: Shield and Prayer of Mending on Hierty for when the Fusion Punch is about to hit. We have a designated dispeller Murlóck on this fight (that’s why you don’t see me dispelling it). I mostly try to penance Hierty just as the Fusion Punch hit since it’s channeled so all the ticks comes to use. You’ll see I spam flash heals a lot – the main reason is to keep Hierty topped but also trying to apply inspiration and grace. As disc I find flash heal the best “filler” when penance is on cooldown because of the mana cost and cast time. You’ll see me casting shields on myself, this aint only for the absorb but since I’m 4 piece of my set my Power word: Shield will grant me 250 spell power for 5 sec and naturally for rapture. Normally I’ll use my Power Infusion on a dps, but on this fight I’m using it myself mostly because of the 20% less mana cost.

In phase3 (where we ball up) you’ll see the Meltdown effect. Hierty goes down and we swap to Non. This is where our cooldown rotation comes to use to survive the Fusion Punches. Whenever a Fusion Punch were about to hit either Non, Såvy, Imani, Tails or me would pop that paladin survival spell which I’ve forgotten the name of, Guardian Spirit or Pain Suppression on the current tank. For this tactic to work we had to eiter Soulstone or Combat Ressurrect Hierty. You can see this in the video if you look closely.

    Who am I?

    onsdag, juni 17th, 2009

    Hello there!

    Firstly I’d like to thank you for visiting my blog.

    I am Niklas Nohrs. You might know me from World of Warcraft as the priest Libitína. In this blog I’ll introduce myself just so you can get the feeling that you know me.

    In my early gaming years I mostly spent time playing old dos games such as Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and all the other classic games. The first competetive games I played were Fifa and Tekken which I played a few tournaments in local malls. At the age of 13 I won a contest winning 2nd price: an original watch from a James Bond movie which name I have forgotten to be quite honest. I sold the watch and bought my first computer. This started the era of lots and lots of playing Age of Empires 2 and ofcourse Counter-Strike.

    Counter-Strike hooked me and I joined the clan EbVuM (en bedre verden uden macintosh) because I provided a switch for a LAN. You might reconize some of the names: Liq, Blackserg, Cobe, Jude and I(Tco). We played together for a few years and suddenly at a LAN they had all switched to WoW which made it incredibly hard for me to fit in at the LAN because I had sworn never to play such a shitty game. Eventually they convinced me to play (hello jägermeister) and I rolled a Troll Mage because none of us had a mage. Oh well, months passed and I finally dinged 60. After some more months of playing pvp with Jude I rerolled my priest. After I dinged 60 I joined Oprah Windfury in greens and blues. We cleared Molten Core and Black Wing Lair. I even wore a + 24 spirit tunic on our first Nefarian kill. Even at this time I played discipline and spirit was the bomb for priests who knew how to downrank proberly.

    Lets skip to now. I’m playing in Furious Few with discipline as my main spec. My intentions with this blog is to post videos and commenting on them. Maybe you’ll learn something ;)