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  • #10059

    Hi All,

    Our mega movie making blockbuster, Slave Auction, is finally done! I spent the last three days slaving over a hot Mac to turn the rough cut into a final polished film, and I’m really proud of the way it turned out! For years we’ve been lamenting the fact that we can never quite seem to make the girls look as gorgeous in our videos as they do in the stills (or in real life!) but this time I think we’ve really cracked it!

    The story revolves around three slavegirls at Honest Omar’s slave auction house.

    Katy is a bored aristocrat who has sold herself into sexual slavery for kicks.

    Janey is a rockstar wannbe whose YouTube music videos are full of sexy bondage and not much else- and Honest Omar certainly recognises a good prospective slavegirl when he sees one, so he and Mistress Kate go on the prowl to kidnap her, abduct her and train her for her new life as a sold slave.

    Finally we have House slavegirl Ariel, who isn’t paying nearly as much attention to doing her duties as she should be! Instead she keeps showing off how much more accomplished she is than the two new girls, rather than helping them with their training as she should be…

    This was a really challenging film to make (trying to make something that looks like an actual movie with a shooting schedule of a single day and a budget that wouldn’t pay the phone bill for even a cheap indie movie is tricky!) but I’m really proud of how well it has turned out!

    Many thanks to everyone who contributed ideas for the film- I hope you will recognise some of your shot ideas (and Lurker, some of your dialogue!) Enjoy!

    The film is now up on the Elegance Studio site and shopping cart, check out:
    http://www.elegancestudios.com/page8/page0/index.html

    for information, preview photos and trailer or go straight to
    http://estore.surfnetcorp.com/store/elegancestudios/products.cfm?fullid=E9346C34-033A-0DC6-720C1D2D93C7B594&id=127

    to purchase and download now!

    Cheers, Hywel.

    #16582

    aonurag
    Member

    I’ve got a couple of questions about the MP4 vs DVD:

    Why is the DVD file twice as large as the MP4, even though the DVD file is zipped?

    Is the DVD region-free?

    And a suggestion: Maybe put up a PAL DVD test file on the Elegance Studios site, so that people can test whether the PAL DVDs you offer will play on their particular systems.

    #16583

    A brilliant idea, thank you Lurker!

    D’Oh I really should have thought of that. FX: Hywel face-palms own head.

    Test DVD download containing the trailers for Acquiesce and Slave Auction now added to the Elegance Studios page on burning DVDs
    http://www.elegancestudios.com/page7/

    Or download the test DVD ZIP file directly at:
    http://www.elegancestudios.com/resources/Trailers/ESTestDVD.zip

    To answer your other questions, the DVDs are region free, so it is just a question of whether your DVD player and TV can play PAL format.

    The MP4 is about half the size of the DVD because MPEG4 uses a newer, more space efficient codec than the MPEG2 used in DVDs.

    The fact that it is in a ZIP file is nothing to do with saving space by the way- ZIP’ing an already heavily compressed file like an MPEG2 movie doesn’t save space. ZIP is just the most convenient way of allowing one to handle a single file which unpacks to the directory structure of files and folders required of the DVD format.

    Cheers, Hywel.

    #16584

    Surfnet declined both my Visa cards!

    #16585

    qkyeyrssi
    Member

    arghh – the domnload was interrupted by the connection – and now i am told i has made 3 downloads and cant get another try….
    But i am waiting for a support mail and i am sure i get it after all.

    Could i suggest – if possible – the download limit is 3 COMPLEATED downloads-

    Alex

    #16586

    HI,

    Just a quickie as I’m about to go away for a few days walking in the mountains. Hasler, if Support haven’t sorted you out with a download in a day or two please email me and I will set up a download via the RE members’ area for you instead.

    Bismarck, sorry that Surfnet have rejected your cards. I’ll chase that up with Support as well. If they haven’t given me a solution by the time I get back (which I suspect they won’t 🙁 ) please could you also drop me a line and we can sort out some way of getting you a copy as well?

    Apologies, would normally chase this up straight away but am heading off tomorrow morning and need to pack!

    Hywel.

    #16587

    Congratulations on finishing the video – and hope you had a great break in the mountains.

    Since joining RE, I’ve become quite interested in the technical aspects of the photography but I will still have to admit things like “bit rate” and “Codec” are beyond me. What I think I can follow is that those of us with limited monthly downloads from our ISPs have to watch file size and the DVD is darn big. In fact, isn’t it too big to get on a regular DVD disc at all? So I think I will join the MP4 majority. Or have I missed something?

    Anyway, apologies but I’ve been banned from downloading either version until later in the month when we know how much capacity we have left (possibly linked with how much wonderful stuff you put on the main site in the meantime) so plenty of time for any more explanation when you get back.

    Andrew

    #16588

    HI,

    A normal writeable DVD is 4.7 GB, which is enough for about an hour of footage at normal bit rates. (Hollywood movies come on double-layer DVDs which contain more like two hours of footage at normal bit rates, but most computer DVD burners can only write single layer DVD-R’s).

    The main reason for offering DVD downloads is so people can watch the films on TV instead of just on the computer- they do look more like a “real” movie watched that way. But actually an increasing number of devices let you play MP4’s direct on the TV anyway, so the DVD format is on its way out in the long term I reckon.

    If you have a limit on bandwidth per month, though, you should definitely go for the MP4 version!

    Cheers, Hywel.

    #16589

    Bismarck, if you still cannot get a card payment through, please email me. I’ve set up a download via the site members’ area for Hasler and can do the same for you if we can sort out a way to get payment to me.

    Cheers, Hywel.

    #16590

    Excellent film!

    #16591

    Now got the film and thought I should say how superb I think it is.
    The girls are beautiful – we knew that but it is worth repeating. The setting is stylish – even to the cook books in the kitchen. The editing is spot on – not a second that doesn’t add value.
    Above all, the whole thing is fun 😀
    Last word for anyone with a download limit – find something else you don’t need or, if your contract allows it, pay the extra to go a little over.

    #16592

    scotto2589
    Member

    Another option for those who are capped on their Internet connections (or just have slow ones) but who want to produce a playable DVD is to download the MPEG-4 version and then use a conversion program to produce MPEG-2. This will take a fair bit of computer time and the results will undoubtedly be a little worse than the actual MPEG-2 version, but that’s the price you pay to save bits.

    For those who don’t understand what codecs are, they’re just video compression algorithms. Uncompressed video takes a HUGE amount of bandwidth that even today is impractical to store and transmit, so it’s nearly always encoded first.

    Video codecs are “lossy”: the reconstructed image won’t match the uncompressed original, so some of the original data is irretrievably lost. But the codec is carefully designed to only throw away information that you won’t really notice, like fine detail in a rapidly changing image. Colors can also get away with less detail because we have fewer cones (color sensitive cells) in our retinas than rods (black-and-white sensitive cells).

    What’s amazing about video codecs is that they can throw out most of the data in the original and we won’t even notice. A lot of work has gone into them over the years, and as computing power gets better it becomes possible to provide good quality video at lower and lower bit rates. When the DVD came out, MPEG-2 was the only real choice. Since then MPEG-4 has appeared, and as Hywel said it achieves the same quality at roughly half the bit rate but at the cost of more processing — and incompatibility with DVDs, which only support MPEG-2.

    MPEG-4 has become the standard for HDTV, and it’s one of the required codecs for Blu-Ray players. It’s also the de-facto Internet video standard since it’s easy to install the necessary decoding software on a computer, or to put it in a special box like an Apple TV adapter. But it’s not in DVD players, and that creates the present problem.

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