Show us your Promo/Leader

[rhys 0]

Hi All,

I banged up a promo for my DZ, only have handicam footage for now but outside footage is coming this week..

Watch it here.

I am happy with it, will change however, and have been using it as a leader to all the dvd's.

I find it is a little long for leader but good for promo.

Before I simply reduce it in length as a leader, I wonder what good ideas you geeks out there have. or criticism. We will get some after effects stuff going on etc. but where are the ideas...

I bet there are some cool ones out there...


Giz a look?

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

[andreeb77 0]

Kia Ora,

I think it's a really cool trailer. Took a scenic flight over that area ten years ago (didn't have my license back then :-(

Just two things I would add: some "pro-skydiving" (freefly and/or belly) as a teaser for your students to actually start skydiving and of course a DZ staff haka ;-)

Keep up the good work and I'm looking forward to many boogies in NZ!

[PhreeZone 20]

We have a Leader and trailer on our DZ videos. Example is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkJwXSAzfSM ITs on the long side but it really shows off most aspects of skydiving and promotes more then just tandems or student jumps.

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[DSE 5]

Not a leader, but a trailer.
The online version is longer than the one we use for the DVDs.
http://vimeo.com/4991326

[rhys 0]

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Just two things I would add: some "pro-skydiving" (freefly and/or belly) as a teaser for your students to actually start skydiving and of course a DZ staff haka ;-)

I don't know about the staff haka, but the sport jumping is coming.

In case you didin't notice every jump has been with me and a customer that is it so far. we are only 6 weeks into it.

My wife gets here in a few days then we can have more than one person in the plane and when a fun jumper shows up we can jump with them, over here it is far too expensive to take the plane up for a fun jump with just my wife and myself but that is all about to change soon with a bigger plane and high altitude!!!

Not too many sport jumoer drifting around, yet.

It all takes time, video content I can work on but it is the tid bits I am interested in learning about here, little differences that make it great...

Thanks for the input

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

[rhys 0]

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ITs on the long side but it really shows off most aspects of skydiving and promotes more then just tandems or student jumps.

It shows off 4 way anyway? haha,

But that leader does look clean/very well made and not too long. so keeps it interesting. The tandem camera guy had focus issues though...

Thanks for sharing.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

[rhys 0]

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Not a leader, but a trailer.
The online version is longer than the one we use for the DVDs.
http://vimeo.com/4991326

I really like the concept of that promo, quite informative not dragging on too much and shows many discplines.

When we eventually get student training off the ground I will do something similar, thanks for sharing.

I'll have to get a bit fancier to get the blue screen thing happening though....

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

[DSE 5]

if you're shooting digital, bluescreen will never work. Green is for digital.

[rhys 0]

we'll fancy that, i always wondered why there was blue and green now.

So you did actually use a 'green screen' for that?

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

[DSE 5]

Yes, that was shot against a greenscreen. We have a 16 x 24 screen in our studio.

[goobersnuftda 0]

OK guys, I have something for you.

I’ve always loved the complete meshing together of skydiving and computer geek stuff. I love the web page stuff (keep is simple for your customers) and the video editing. Done many a year end video and got better at the effects as the years went by.

A while back I finally bit the bullet and dove into After Effects. In the land of Canada, winter is a great time to get some edu-ma-cation when there is no jumping.

There are 5 videos used as “teasers” for our web page (#4 is used for the leader at the start of our tandem videos). Start viewing the videos from #1. I got lucky on my first one because everything seemed to come together nicely. All video shot at our DZ.

By the time I did up the last one #5, whoa mama, things didn’t go to well. The templates I was using didn’t mesh with the videos, the fonts were all over the place and errors a plenty. That damn last video took 2.5 days to render (yes I said two point five days).

The clip is only 90 seconds long but on a quad core, 8 GB, Raid-0 (two Velociraptors 250 Gig each) system, I did the best I could for setting everything up and just had to let my little black box of joy go to work un interrupted. I wasn’t until it was done that I could view the 90 second video and pick out all the errors and start the rendering process over again. I hated it at times but lets get real here, I LOVED IT :)

To be honest, just as I was finishing up on video #5, Windoze 7 (64 bit) and CS5 (again, 64 bit After Effects) came into play and that lone allowed complete access to the full 8 Gig (instead of just 4) and that render time went from 2.5 days down to 14 hours.


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PS: Videos #1-#5 average 5-8 meg each. I have true HD 1920x1080 versions on another server of videos #4 and #5. If you have a true HD monitor, #5 is stunningly awesome. It is 126 Meg in size for that 90 seconds though.