andyTHPS's Projekt (2004 rerender)

In March of 2004, this video was one of the first of its kind. Most people didn't have a way to capture their gameplay at all, and the people who *did* would only put out combo videos with no editing. I had toyed with the idea of editing a video based on what a real skating video would look like, but I thought it would be a better idea to combine that with arcade THPS gameplay into one video, and try to capture the vibe of what it was like to play THPS4 online at the time (doubles, KOTH jukes, outtakes etc). I was originally experimenting with Gangstarr's Full Clip for the bg song, and had made a few iterations, but I eventually landed on Tool's Parbol and Parabola which I thought would lend itself well for a slow build at the beginning, and really slam in for the transition into Parabola. I was really into playing the song on drums at the time so it was fresh in my head. Right when the song kicks in, I knew I wanted to drop the start of a combo video, and I had already recorded the death or glory combo so I threw it in as a placeholder, but ended up keeping it. The bail on the LA wire where I shove my face into the QP lip was a bail I'd do by accident all the time in THPS3 days, and I captured it specifically for that transition in this video. The same could be said for most of the video. I only had a few things captured like the Manhattan NM and Death or Glory combo, but for most of the video, I was capturing footage that I thought would fit the music bit-by-bit starting from the beginning-to-end. The song served as a map. I put the 2 big combos where I wanted them to start in the song, and then worked around that. I would assemble brand new CAPs to do one trick just for one part, capture it, then move on to the next thing. Asked Draco and Gnarkill on separate occasions to try and do some doubles stuff, record, and find places for the cuts, then move on to the next parts. Looking back at this video is really wild. I used windows movie maker, and used way too many white flashes ("Fade-In from White"), and most of the content doesn't really hold up today at all. There's a lot of placeholder content that could have been way better. For the time, it was all very experimental just to see if I could make something work, and the quality suffered in the long-run, but I was still very proud of it. The reason I spelled it "projekt" was because the WMM file menu read "Save Project As..." and it was the first thing that came to mind and was different from "project." I just thought "'Project', but silly. So, 'Projekt.'" I don't think that aged well. I would love to make project 3, or remake project 1, but one of the main hooks for me is using well-known music to tie it all in, but DMCA makes it risky. I originally uploaded this somewhere on tXo and to my personal website, and later uploaded the same .wmv file to youtube, but a couple years later, YouTube randomly decided to mute it entirely which has never happened to me with any other video: https://youtu.be/5n82knP8jn4 I recently rerendered the original Shipyard Style Line video (https://youtu.be/3WU0Mwx5__k) and thought it'd be a good idea to give the same treatment to this video. 0:00 Intro slow bits 1:36 Doubles 3:03 Death or Glory combo 4:01 Filler 7:08 Manhattan NM line 8:28 Credits My Socials: https://andyTHPS.com https://twitch.tv/andyTHPS https://discord.gg/Na6EpUz https://twitter.com/andyTHPS https://facebook.com/andythps https://instagram.com/andyTHPS https://www.tiktok.com/@andythps Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/andythps Tips: https://streamlabs.com/andythps/tip Epic Games Creator Code: ANDYTHPS