FEATURE: NO GREATER LOVE - Official Thread - Feature Film

Excellent trailer. The web encoding is excellent. I always marvel at how anybody gets this much resolution on Youtube! I'd love to know the encoding recipe.

I wish you huge success as I'm happy to see people making meaningful movies rather than mere exploitation. I don't like horror films and I'm tired even of action films, although I'll probably end up making some more war movies in the future. I just don't like B-movie action and horror movies when they're straight exploitation movies.

But I also understand that there will be people who love horror and exploitation movies. I try to respect all tastes.

Good luck with NO GREATER LOVE.
 
wow... thanks thanks thanks!

And filmman, I just uploaded the 480p version of the trailer to youtube for that compression... so just download that file and that should give you the specs.
 
Good trailer, interesting story!
Sound seemed not that great, could be the compression, very minor thing.

I definitevly want to watch it! :)
Also I am really curious how you weaved in the real christian stuff in the story, I guess this was the trickiest part...

And dude, the photo gallery is freakin nuts!
 
I don't know how to do that. How do I find what the encode settings were by downloading the trailer?

BTW, what the link on Youtube. I couldn't find it by searching. Thanks.
 
MaxZenk said:
Good trailer, interesting story!
Sound seemed not that great, could be the compression, very minor thing.

I definitevly want to watch it! :)
Also I am really curious how you weaved in the real christian stuff in the story, I guess this was the trickiest part...

And dude, the photo gallery is freakin nuts!
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Hm. haven't heard that the sound was an issue...

Any specifics, or just overall quality (which could very well be the compression)

Thanks for checking it out,and regarding weaving the Christian elements in, it was really pretty easy since it's really just a normal guy who's life intersects with Christian's lives.. which happens all the time in life...

Thanks again for the comments!

filmman said:
I don't know how to do that. How do I find what the encode settings were by downloading the trailer?

BTW, what the link on Youtube. I couldn't find it by searching. Thanks.
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The Youtube link is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh5Rroge5C0

Again, I prefer the HD quicktime files, but it's pretty good for Youtube.
 
yeah, the trailer on Youtube is really good quality. My Youtube submissions have never reached this level.

I wish I understood what you mean by 480p. Do you convert the HDV to 480 progressive and then submit? What format do you submit in, 480p h.264, 480p MPEG-4? Or what? Thanks for posting the link.

I like the trailer, even though I have no clue what the story is about. Is the guy a Christian? Was Heather not a Christian?
 
filmman said:
yeah, the trailer on Youtube is really good quality. My Youtube submissions have never reached this level.

I wish I understood what you mean by 480p. Do you convert the HDV to 480 progressive and then submit? What format do you submit in, 480p h.264, 480p MPEG-4? Or what? Thanks for posting the link.

I like the trailer, even though I have no clue what the story is about. Is the guy a Christian? Was Heather not a Christian?
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If you download the 480p version from here

http://www.nogreaterlovethemovie.com/hi-def.html

It will give you the specs when you view the quicktime and select "view properties"

Also, regarding the story, the guy is not a believer, Heather left him many years ago, his life intersects with her's again at a kids program at a church, she is changed now, a Christian, while he is not... I won't say anymore than that :)
 
That's a great premise. I like it. Would it be poor trailer making if you let the audience know that he's not a Christian? We get the idea from the opening montage sequence that she wasn't much of a Christian, but we don't know if he is or not. But we suspect that he isn't when he says, "because she's a Christian!" So either he's of another faith or he's an atheist, but there's a big difference there. If he's Jewish then the audience needs to know, because then it's another story altogether. Frankly that wouldn't be a bad premise. But my question is: would it be better to let the audience know that he's not a Christian? I don't know, really. I was a bit torn about it. It's something I'm sensitive too, but I don't know about the general audience, whether they would be or not.

About the encoding, it's okay, I know encoding for the web is a lucrative business and few people share their secrets, on the web especially.

I don't mind telling you that I've recently been advised about doing the exports for the web with mpeg streamclip (a free software). And if this doesn't work to my satisfaction, then I'll have to bite the bullet and buy Sorenson Squeeze.

Thanks again for your comments.
 
filmman said:
That's a great premise. I like it. Would it be poor trailer making if you let the audience know that he's not a Christian? We get the idea from the opening montage sequence that she wasn't much of a Christian, but we don't know if he is or not. But we suspect that he isn't when he says, "because she's a Christian!" So either he's of another faith or he's an atheist, but there's a big difference there. If he's Jewish then the audience needs to know, because then it's another story altogether. Frankly that wouldn't be a bad premise. But my question is: would it be better to let the audience know that he's not a Christian? I don't know, really. I was a bit torn about it. It's something I'm sensitive too, but I don't know about the general audience, whether they would be or not.

About the encoding, it's okay, I know encoding for the web is a lucrative business and few people share their secrets, on the web especially.

I don't mind telling you that I've recently been advised about doing the exports for the web with mpeg streamclip (a free software). And if this doesn't work to my satisfaction, then I'll have to bite the bullet and buy Sorenson Squeeze.

Thanks again for your comments.
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Regarding the story elements of the trailer, we did try to make it clear he was not a Christian, but that she now was. I think what he is isn't as important as just the very fact that he isn't...

Regarding the web encoding, for the flash movie on the website I believe we used Sorenson for that. I did the quicktime files and someone else handled the Flash export.

Thanks for the dialog!
 
The whole christian / religious theme of the film is not for me, but I will say your trailer is well done and the actors look rather comfortable in their parts.

Production wise from what I have seen of this film, looks like it will be a good film.

peas.
 
UPDATE: We're making a trip down to a post house today to meet with the owner... talking about possibly doing the sound mix, and color grading/correction.
 
I'm curious, Brandon. You said you cut the movie on AVID. I've heard that AVID gives you the option to go to a more expensive suite and do color correcting and mixing. Is this a weakness of AVID?

FCP people seem to do all their color correcting on FCP. Can you comment on this aspect? Are you getting a better product working with AVID? Is it more expensive to do Post on AVID?
 
Sure you can do your own CC on your NLE if you want, but if you take it a post house, they have proper monitors, and most if it is done on a tape based machine like a Da Vinci. Just way more options - that's how pros do it.
 
Aha. Thanks. So that's it. I didn't know that. So actually it doesn't matter if the edit was done on FCP or AVID, it would still be an added advantage to take the final edit to a post house and have the movie re-mixed.
 
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