TF2: Meet the music video montage

Meet the Music Video Montage from Supa Comix on Vimeo.

beeing a machinima feind, i try to make movies in almost everything i play.
i have been playing this game called team fortress 2 for a long while now and after discovering the record function and how to make a playable movie without the consol, i thougth about how i could use this to make my own tf2 movie.
my first one was about the new pyro ulockables, which was more of a test about making films than anything. looking for more ideas to start a BIG project that i could use smoothing and stuff on, so i looked back on a genre that i rember enjoying last summer... the music video hell genre started by AMV hell. this genre had expanded into all kinds of games... even ruescape. so i was like... this is what i want to do.
as soon as i thoght about it, loads of ideas came to mind, some based on jokes in existing MV hell videos and other based on tf2 jokes. one was just random personal jokes to see if i could squeeze some classical music in there.

i started filming with a few of my clan members, st nicky (who i know in real life) and aa killer (who provides our servers and has become quite a good friend to me and nick)
later it expanded to me asking people to do stuff in game so i could get a whole games worth of actors.
however, i come on the next day after filming my entire set over a week and found that tf2 had updated leaving all my demo files usless. so after trying every consol command to get them to work again, it still didnt work... so i had to start again.
this time i had one extra full time actor to help me, fudge807, so things were a little easier and i had more ideas of what to do as well.
after a short while, the simple stuff was done. there were just a few ideas i thought were going to be immpossable to get... that was until i logged on to our clan server one day to find it full of community and clan members... (for the first time ever, they're usualy quite empty) who were having an all mele match. i joined in for a while then had a thought about one of the clips i needed so i typed into the message system
"can you guys help me out with a video i'm making? i just need you all to go heavy and start jumping around on the bridge"
all the time after that i thought no one was gonna go for it, until over voice chat i hear [LEGION] The General tell his clan members to go out and do it.
it was funny as hell to watch all these guys jump around on the bridge as heavys, it was a shame some of them were lagging out. i'm not sure who the guy was who jumped in the middle as a scout, but i think if i had re-filmed that... i woudl have got someone to go scout as well and stand in the middle just like that.

after i got all the recording done, it was time to turn those demos into movies. that was a long and tedious process especialy for the smoothing ones. The main problem though was the file size of the videos, by the end of it all, i had accumilated 120GB of video files and i only have a 160GB hard drive.

once the thing was finshed, i was happy with the results, i think what i did was good considering that it is my first time using smoothing. obviously if i had better resorces it woudl have turned out a lot better, but i did my best with what i had and missed a few nights sleep getting it fineshed and woundering if it was missing something.
as soon as it was up i was glad to see it got some good comments, it made the thing seem more worth while. the negitive comments annoyed me a little though (i mean who woudlnt get annoyed by negitive comments about their work) mostly because they were about the quality of the filming... but we dont all have super computers or the best resorces, so like i said i did my best with what i had.

anyway, if the youtube verson of this video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14NJoaEVXKo ) reaches 20k veiws by the end of this year i will consider making a second one next summer.
i didnt post the youtube one on here because the audio quality is rubbish.