Re-make of G5 commercial

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cubs23cubs23
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Hey, I messed around a bit with some G5 pics, and some audio. Check it out and tell me what you think. Big thanks to Murbot for hosting!



http://homepage.mac.com/murbot/.Movi...ercialbest.mp4

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  • Reply 1 of 20
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    ITS TEH KEWLEST KERMERSHELL EVA
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  • Reply 2 of 20
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    you did sync it with the music rather well at least.
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  • Reply 3 of 20
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    somebody should recut the G5 intro video and splice together all the "ass kicking" lines



    "edgy" voice-overs from WWDC demo folk. not quite the anti-goldblum.
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  • Reply 4 of 20
    crusadercrusader Posts: 1,129member
    I liked it except for the anti-climax. You get excited thinking "Oh God what's the computer going to do???" the Jeff's voice comes on. Boo. Overall very dark and dramatic. 2 big toes up.
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  • Reply 5 of 20
    cubs23cubs23 Posts: 324member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Crusader

    I liked it except for the anti-climax. You get excited thinking "Oh God what's the computer going to do???" the Jeff's voice comes on. Boo. Overall very dark and dramatic. 2 big toes up.



    Yea, wasn't sure what to do at the end, so I just threw jeff in. Also, that keynote idea is good. I might have to try it out.
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  • Reply 6 of 20
    macsrgood4umacsrgood4u Posts: 3,007member
    Scenario not unlikely: Ask a person on the street, "Did you see that commercial with the guys house being blown up by his computer?" He or she says, "Yes!". Ok, what brand of computer are they selling? Answer, "Ummm, Dell?" My, for what it's worth prediction is that regognition of the brand name of the computer will be very low. In the annals of commercials this has happened for years and years.
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  • Reply 7 of 20
    macgregormacgregor Posts: 1,434member
    Now that parody and the outright theft of idea cum-parody (BuyMusic.com) of Apple's switcher ads have come and gone, it is time to change the white background thing! It is still good as an ambience in the Apple stores, but it needs a change.



    More metal...



    cub23: I'd get really detailed views of the G5 internals with the blue highlights and do your Ken Burns Effects in a more up-close panning like flying over the NY skyline.
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  • Reply 8 of 20
    sopphodesopphode Posts: 135member
    You shouldn't show the entire machine - only zoomed in parts of it. Then people will go "wow - what is this!?" So cut out the three last pics - they're underwhelming
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  • Reply 9 of 20
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Crap...
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  • Reply 10 of 20
    macusersmacusers Posts: 840member
    If you are ever going to re-do this, try to add some clips from the G5 video, not the commercial, the video where paul s. and jon r. talk, they have some good clips there
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  • Reply 11 of 20
    cubs23cubs23 Posts: 324member
    I was thinking of adding video of it from that too, except I can't find a screen capture tool that doesn't have a watermark on it. Anyone know of any freebies?
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  • Reply 12 of 20
    wrong robotwrong robot Posts: 3,907member
    definitely gotta record a different voice, or apply filters to that goldblum clip to try and make it more powerful.
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  • Reply 13 of 20
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by cubs23

    I was thinking of adding video of it from that too, except I can't find a screen capture tool that doesn't have a watermark on it. Anyone know of any freebies?



    Why don't you just save the original video and copy parts from it directly?
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  • Reply 14 of 20
    cubs23cubs23 Posts: 324member
    I don't have quicktime pro, so I can't save it, Right?
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  • Reply 15 of 20
    macusersmacusers Posts: 840member
    Ya, you need Pro
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  • Reply 16 of 20
    mcqmcq Posts: 1,543member
    You can save it w/out having pro, but it takes a little legwork and poking around in the page source to get a URL that will allow you to save from a web browser.



    Brad, is it within the posting guidelines to post the URL? I don't want to post something that shouldn't be.
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  • Reply 17 of 20
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    It's public domain. Anyone else can read the source just as well as you can. Post away.
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  • Reply 18 of 20
    mcqmcq Posts: 1,543member
    Should work in Safari and other browsers for saving once it's completely downloaded (use file menu--> save or save as).



    Edit: Okay, so I can't seem to get the links to work properly, not sure if it's a VB issue with parsing the URL?



    Anyways, here's instructions of what I did:



    Go to the video page:

    http://www.apple.com/powermac/video/introvideo240.html

    (If you want the bigger versions, then use introvideo320.html or introvideo480.html)



    View source on the page.



    Search for ".mov" and copy the URL. Edit the end of the URL so it says g5_intro_m240.mov (or g5_intro_m320.mov or g5_intro_m480.mov depending on what size you want), then load that URL. Let it download all the way, then try file--> save as.
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  • Reply 19 of 20
    macusersmacusers Posts: 840member
    those dont work, i forgot you can also fins the video in your cache.
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  • Reply 20 of 20
    shankstashanksta Posts: 96member
    nice job.
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