Crimson Echoes DVD Project officially underway!

[GenesisOne]

Interviews, huh?

Who would you like to interview?  Obviously, the programmers, scenario makers, and writers.

Would you also include people with personal testimonials about how CE had an impact on them?

[Dapifer]

Nice idea! Maybe the Beta Testers?

I don't know... I would be very happy with just the videos at my grasp without having to wait Youtube loading times and 10 minute limits. Everything else is just gravy, IMHO, of course.

[Dunce]

I love this idea. CE: The Movie.

It'd be better than watching 10 min sections!

[GenesisOne]

Wait!  Better idea.

A CE documentary complete with narrative timeline and narrator. 

...or is that too ambitious?

[Ramsus]

Release the DVD first. That's what people really want. The rest can be part of a second release with all the extras.

That way the extras are really just fun extras, and not something that's holding up the very thing that people really want to see. Then you can take your time and have fun making the extra stuff without any outside pressure to bother you.

[Schala Zeal]

What will be the price on this?

[NickyT]

Price = Free! I'm just doing it for fun and want to give back to the Chrono Community.

I agree, Ramsus. I am going to release just the content first, then after a while will make a bonus disc with interviews of whoever wants to do that.

I am hoping to get some time coming up soon to work on the encoding and stuff some more, I am in the middle of my 7-day-stretch at work so hopefully I will be having 3 or so days to mess around with it after that.

[ZombieBucky]

so if its free, how will you be able to get it to the ends of the neterverse? will it just be an image youd burn to a dvd then play on your computer/dvd player?

[Dapifer]

Release the DVD first. That's what people really want. The rest can be part of a second release with all the extras.

That way the extras are really just fun extras, and not something that's holding up the very thing that people really want to see. Then you can take your time and have fun making the extra stuff without any outside pressure to bother you.

*thumbs up*

[NickyT]

so if its free, how will you be able to get it to the ends of the neterverse? will it just be an image youd burn to a dvd then play on your computer/dvd player?

Exactly. I plan on hosting the ISO's on my server as long as I can, without going over my limited bandwidth. I will probably start up a torrent so that if I reach my BW limit others can help out seeding.

[Ramsus]

Well, good luck. Thanks for your hard work too. I really hope to see this come into fruition.

[Dinos]

Been a month, how's the progress?? 

[NickyT]

Hey sorry for the lack of updates everyone. I have been really busy with work and stuff so I haven't gotten to work on the DVD's as long as I would like.

I authored, burned and watched the Disc 1 Test Disc that I made, and it turned out pretty good. I just wasn't quite happy with the way the video encoding turned out yet, so I am currently experimenting with ways to encode it to get the best quality and least amount of space comsumption at the same time.

Once that is done, I am going to reauthor the DVD again and release it. I think I am going to set up a BitTorrent tracker on my server anyways as another side-project I have, so once I have the first DVD completed I will for sure seed up a torrent of it.

I will post again soon with more updates!

[Ramsus]

Thanks for all the attention to detail. I'm sure this release will be amazing when it comes out.

Drinks on me if we happen to be in the same area at the time.

[NickyT]

Sounds great, Ramsus! Thanks for the generous comments.

As for an update, I have just acquired some DVD Authoring software (legally) that I expect will help greatly with the encoding/etc things. I have a 3-day weekend starting tomorrow, and hope to work in some progression on the first Disc during that time, and hopefully even complete it if I bust my ass.

I will post as soon as I have more updates.