The story of a skill-video that never got truly finished – by In7-Dimitryy

Dimitryy

Member
Three and a half year ago, in the good old InstantAction times, where we had flowers on the grass maps, before the huge summerupdate, that nearly killed the community, came, when eldermimmmi and Nvidia were in Team-In7, and the community was growing, Nvidia and elder got the idea of a skillmovie, featuring every member of Team In7. A skillmovie that would top or atleast reach the level of “phanakapan snipes”,my favorite legions movie:

Nvidia started to ask the In7 members to fraps some footage and send it to him. Unfortunately he and eldermimmmi left Team In7olerance some weeks later to start a new team together. Xzanth, a new In7-member from England said he could go on with the video and asked Nvidia for the footage-downloadlinks. Nvidia said that he dosnt want to give him the links and xzanth started to collect new footage or asked us to upload the clips we frapsed again (because nobody of us saved the downloadlink). Some months and hard hours of frapsing, cutting zipping and uploading later he presented us his first skillvideo preview called: “IMPROVISO” or in7 skillvid v01

(it’s a way laggy in the beginning because of rendering errors. Also, the movie isn’t finished in the end. It was just a preview for us)
Xzanth did a very good job on the video (imo) and we all liked it. But we had some tips to make it a way better and xzanth got more and more clips and then the big summerupdate came and he wanted to put all the new content, like the new sniper,the skins and helmets, the maps and more flagpasses (because the flagpassbug was fixed) into the movie. He started to dislike the music that he used in the first video and made a completely new movie with new music, new clips and asked us if we would like it and what he could do better: “in7 skillvid v02”, the official name was still IMPROVISO:

(because xzanth had to render it with only 4GB RAM, and because he had to upload it with a very slow connection he took a very low quality to it us. The music is very cool and I can watch it without sound problems on my pc. I don’t know why youtube got this really bad soundquality. I will ask xzanth to upload a HD version of the movie soon. And because it’s only a preview too, there is no intro and no credits) (I asked him for better version but he only got this one so I will upload it to mediafire if someone wants to watch it with “normal” sound. Link coming soon J)
Xzanth editing skills got better with every new movie he presented us J
We had some ideas what he could cut out, like the part were Tomstoiler and Jossiqua are sniping and shooting Nvidia and Tom falls down into the cute of the Nivosus base or the clip in the end (where the credits should be on a later version of the movie) where someone get a cool MidAir but a sec too late that the enemy returned the flag.
And again, xzanth started to dislike the music; he said ULTRAnumb from Blue Stahli is too “overused” and that we would make a new movie with other music … I was very disappointed because I really loved the video and wanted to keep the music.
A long time later, after we discussed on our clanforum about the best music, he gave me a download link of a new movie (without intro and credits again): “Skill Vid v03”: IMPROVISO


I really like the way how he fixed the thing from the movie before where Tom felt into the cute, but I firstly disliked all those “happy-rainbow-colors” and the song “Fireflys” from Breaking Benjamin, who made the Halo 2 songs, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8yhkgdJ-pk&feature=related
And we tried to find better music again and still have like 30 links and ratings for each song on the clanforum.(we made our own ranking added the point to find the most liked songs :D). xzanth took the songs with the best ratings and created the soundtrack for the whole movie with intro and credits, its 10.40 min long. Then, before he could finish the movie, IA shut down and legions came back after 9,5 months of long long waiting and a lot of “soons”. But sadly without spectator mode that he needed to finish the video. Also THE_TROOPER made a very cool legions movie (already before IA went down) called: “OMEN”

One of the top 5 legions movies in my opinion. When xzanth saw it he said: “we need more effects”, so he started to change everything again … :p
Here is the In7-Skillvideo Soundtrack for the final version (but I am sure xzanth would change it if he would go on with the movie :p):
http://www.mediafire.com/?w6djk0gt9364t2i

In the 9 months without legions xzanth and me made some little individual short clips, featuring every player who uploaded enough cool footage for a 1 minute clip:
(both of my clips are my first tries with a videoprogramm and they aren’t that great, xzanth’s are so much better) and here they are:
FROZEN: pullute (by xzanth): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBLpgzSRsPE
ALONE: Tomstoiler (by xzanth): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr_SycYlM4
THOUGH THE GATES: Dimitryy (by xzanth): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKLejVBQ-gc
Frozen pullute (by Dimitryy): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMeGXncOPo
Dimitryy (by Dimitryy): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKdD7BDd8j0

Xzanth also made a teaser for the final version of the clanvideo that is already on youtube for a while:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwUbkCR5y4I
(If someone can’t watch a video becasue ist blocked by yoututbe (only for germans …), paste the link here: http://www.unblockyoutube.us/ to watch it)

This is the story of a skillvideo that never got finished L. I really hope xzanth can pick his work up again and finish the final version of the movie.
I would like to thank especial xzanth and the In7 members for rendering, working on and frapsing the footage and all the time they put into it.

Those In7-members are or were:
Xzanth, Jossiqua, Teamneuch, dixhill, eldermimmmi, pullute, Tomstoiler, SSentinel, Icesolid, Battelstar, Xecuteur, Kat999, Annihilate, Riptack, Nvidia, Elite_III, Dobson777, PlanetsCollide, Dimitryy

We had a very good time together and a lot of fun J
And we miss you Jossiqua and Xecueur

Long life legions !

Btw. Xzanth started to create a new video 4 weeks ago with completely new music (I knew it !) and will finish it very soon. (hopefully)

sorry for my language but if you are clever enough you get what i wanted to express :p
 

Dimitryy

Member
ahhhh, i miss the good old times when i was young and everything was easy and better .... :( IA open Beta, galcon, rocketball 150 ppl online at the same time, full rooms and great games.
i saw that warsaw may come on steam (you can vote for it on the steamwebsite) and i hope the finished legions 1.4 will go the same way.
 

Pure

Member
Never really found out, but why DIDN'T many people come back from ia to this? And nice videos.
They did come back, most of IA players know about Legions: Overdrive but between TA, new CoD, BF and a *chocolate cookies* tone of new games and irl stuff most people simply don't give a rat's ass about legions.
 

BugsPray

Legions Developer
The other problem was that the IA website was shutdown before we had a chance to announce and we couldn't add a link or anything. We updated the GG page though.
 

Dimitryy

Member
in fact, alot of IA players still do not know about L:O, since it was released about 9 months after IA was shut down. and yes, other popular games steal our community members !
 

Jello

Contributor
Such great videos, are those retail still around? If so can you give me link please other than that those are some awesome videos I like song in first one :D
 

Poponfu

Lead Developer
I still have a soft spot for zhou's OD Niv videos , they really got me into the game trying to learn how to move/learn OD off those.

 

Levi

Member
To tell the truth, ever since I saw this video my only main goal in legions was to master the chute cap. I have yet to do it!
 

Jello

Contributor
I want that grenade reticle he had with raider / sentinel anyone got link for it or know if it's still around?
 
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