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    This is the true story about Raymond Baxter and 602 Squadron's involvement in Operation Big Ben - the anti V2 campaign.

    It is based on the squadron diary as published in the book 'Operation Big Ben' by Craig Cabell and Graham A Thomas. I have put in a lot of effort to ensure this as historically accurate as possible, within the limitations of the game and file sizes.

    Hope you enjoy it, and PLEASE let me know what you think.

    Now hosted at Netwings:
    Netwings Host

    Thanks also to VR_Thrustmaster for hosting:
    http://www.other-world.co.uk/Vulture...tionbigben.zip

    (you will need the divx codec from www.divx.com)

    *EDIT updated host
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    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>I have put in a lot of effort to ensure this as historically accurate as possible, within the limitations of the game and file sizes. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

    what exactly were the limitations that you had making it? map? planes?

    all in all a great movie i really enjoyed watching it. great music too. good work.
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    wow.
    An epic feel.
    Super form flying and would make a great recruitment video for ur squad.
    Nice touches,escpecially the pilot pick up.
    Music fab,being a celt,how cud i not like it.
    About the start,I especially liked the photo shots of the pilots giving that personal feel.
    Not much need for words as the picture told the story.
    Historically enlightening.
    Thx
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    S! Joe

    I'm a big fan of Historical WWII War Stories.

    Nice choice of music scores, excellent film editing i.e. (camera shakes), great skins, and a good story.
    Would have be nice with more aerial action...but late in Feb 1945 there wouldn't be much opposition from the Luftwaffe.

    Excellent real footage of the V-2 rocket scene.

    Nice touch using time lapse thing as the downed pilot was waiting for the PBN Nomad to rescue him...great job!

    Love the camera shakes...the last filmaker to use that technique was ScragBat's two films "retribution", and "sacrifice".
    Did you use Adobe "After Effects" or an video editor like Vegas 5 to get that effect?

    Nice clouds and water...great job.

    Nice smooth film with little or no lag.

    Salute to you Joe and the other six squadron pilots that help in this film. Great Teamwork!


    Best Regards
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    Hi guys,

    I am the host of the download and I am afraid I have had to kill the link as I have nearly reached my 5GB daily limit!!

    Apologies for any inconvenience, anyone who wants to volunteer for a mirror put your hands up
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    Rats, would like to see your movie Joe-90. I'd offer to host it for a bit but I'm already at over 600GB for the month.

    310th Falcon, are you sure there hasn't been any camera shake in movies since Scragbat's (the perfecter of the effect)? Alot of movies have had motion sketching added that I can think of, including my own. Almost every shot was run through AfterEffects first and a motion sketch applied .
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    Thanks for the comments, I am glad it is going down so well.

    MrVH, I would value your opinion on it, so I'll pm you a private link that you can use after midnight UK time.

    If anybody can suggest a host and/or would like to check the movie's suitability, pm me and I'll send you the private link.

    Falcon, I learned most techniques from VWC, Ubi MM Forum, some hints from Monty-Dan, and other Internet resources. But you are right - one of my inspirations was scragbat and that's where I realised about saturation camera shake, but I did the easy method of AE as MrVH says using a great tutorial on AE from www.hollowlife.net

    Buster, 602 did use Spit IX's but they weren't as good for dive bombing. That was the role of the Spit XVI (not available in game). Also, there are no maps of the Haague or Coltishall airfield. And, there were a lot more planes involved but to include them all would kill my PC Oh, and there are no V2 models in the game - guess what I used
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    S! MrVH

    You are right. It was late at night and I wasn't thinking clearly...yes indeed you did and have use motion sketching in your movies. My sincere apology.


    Joe-I see you did your homework on the man who made the tutorial for highly realistic camera shake technique is done, as first introduced to us by Scragbat.

    Again Great job


    Best Regards
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    Joe-90,

    Is it possible for you to send the movie using:

    www.yousendit.com

    or

    www.dropload.com ?


    If so, wish for you to send me a copy.

    Regards,

    NTesla
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    Joe m8


    I am not sure if the bandwidth is measured day to day on UK time or US time, remember my hosts are in the US!

    Can you not download it until mid day tomorrow at least?
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