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Behind the scene of… PEB Teaser Trailer
Apr 21st
Last week I was tasked to come out with a teaser trailer for upcoming event of PEB Club. Initially, I was a bit reluctant to volunteer, but somehow that day, gatal sangat mulut neh I suggested something and started drawing the storyline on the whiteboard. Hahaha! And guess what, everyone seemed to like the idea. Adehhh! Honestly, I was expecting feedback to further improvise, but since nobody added anything, I just took the discussion offline with the rest of the promotion team.. And eventually, simply proceed with the working out the trailer that night.. And ladies and gentleman, this is the result!
Theme and colour: I purposely picked up Black and White as the theme colour to make it simple and less ‘busy’. And, since it is a teaser clip, I added some ‘mysterious’ element by having special sound effect (my favourite, typical lightning sound).
Song: If you could hear it carefully, it is part of latest Transformer’s soundtrack (Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen). The title? NEST, by Steve Jablonsky. For those who went to watch it last year, the song was played in the early part of the movie. When I first listened to it, I immediately fall in love with this song as the rhythm is nice, same goes to the music arrangements. Double thumbs up!! However, since it is 2-minutes long, I did some sound editing (i.e. clipping and overlapping) to make it shorter, but yet full with impact and full with mystery (hahahaha, sound like poyo plak).
Softwares: My favourite video editor, as always, Sony Vegas! 
Highly recommended to others, be it beginner or intermediate level. You can browse through youtube for useful tutorials. I have used this particular software (coupled with Adobe After Effects) to come out with officiating montage of PE Forum. Excellent combo!
Style: My main idea was to reveal the wording, letter by letter in the first part of the trailer. Later, the wordings were scrambled so that people will rajin enough to calculate be able to know how many words are contained in the montage.
Feedbacks? Hahaha, this is quite tricky. Some likes it very much! And for some, they kinda hate it as it is rather confusing. Well, I can’t please everybody, but in my honest opinion, as long as majority of them are OK, then I am happy enough. Plus, it was a one-night-quality of work! >.<
Again, feel free to add your comment! And, teaser trailer #2 is coming out soon too! Stay tuned!
YES! Finally…
Apr 12th
… STEAM gave 15% off on Modern Warfare 2!
This is the moment that I have been waiting for. And I am very excited when such offer came out last weekend..
HAHAHA! Thanks Steam!
And the next thing I know, I am downloading it from them.. =)
Will update you with the review if time permits! Hehehe.
My take on… DLNext
Apr 11th
Pheww!! It has been months since I posted something here.. Obviously, nothing interesting has really happened, hence the hiatus (pretty lame reason, huh?)
Anyway, in few post backs, I shared my personal experience with Torrent, and the alternative to get around its weaknesses. Here, I am planning to share on something that I just recently signed up. But before that, let me share on the incidents that led me to this. Who knows, you might be having similar scenario as we speak. 
It all started when I was desperate, looking for this particular file from the internet. Thanks to Pakcik Google, I managed to get a working link, but I was turned off when I discovered the file was hosted by HOTFILE. What makes things become even worse; there was no other mirror link and I don’t have the premium account for Hotfile >.< One knows that it is VERY expensive to maintain several premium account at one go. Just thought of sharing with you the fee for one month;
Rapidshare – €6.99 – RM 30
Megaupload – USD10 – RM 33
Hotfile – USD 9 – RM 30
Netload – €8 – RM35
Storage.to – €7.99 – RM35
To simplify thing, you will need to pay roughly about RM 130 per month to maintain the premium accesses to all the filehosting site. That is madness! There is no way that I am going to set aside that amount of cash monthly! Absurd!
My frustration led me to Service Noticeboard @ Lowyat. And this is where I got my solution to this problem; DLNext service.
DLNext service started several months back and I knew it since I was selected to become the beta testers. I found the speed was very stable and lightning fast. However, since I did not have any pressing reasons to get one, I just simply quit after the trial expired. Looking at current scenario, where the uploaders have started to upload somewhere else, there is a need for me to find alternatives to this.
Taken from DLNext page:
DLNext is a transfer/storage script for use on various popular download sites
Supported: Rapidshare/Megaupload/Depositfiles/Hotfile/Netload/FileFactory/Megashares/Storage.to/Uploading.com/Easy-share at the moment.DLNext transfers files from Rapidshare/Megaupload/Depositfiles/Hotfile/Netload/FileFactory/Megashares/Storage.to/Uploading.com/Easy-share to our servers and dumps the file on our server.
Premium users may then download these files from our server anytime later.
They got some pretty good server too..
Server Specification (SV1 & SV2)
# Processor – Phenom II X4 810 (4 x 2,6 Ghz)
# Memory – 8 GByte DDR2 800
# Hard Disk – 2 x 1 TByte SATA II (RAID0)
# OS – Linux Debian 5.0 (codenamed Lenny)
# Webserver – Lighttpd
# Network – 1 GBit onboard
# Traffic – 100 Mbit unmetered
# Server Location – Europe.
And the T&C ( I suggest you to read all of this, before signing up)
Guarantee below : -
# Can download any things, 100% privacy
# No storage days limitation, keep as long your account still active
# Support Forum
# Either HTTP or FTP Download.
# Server is open for public and everyone can join
# Chinese characters are supported
# Pass protection Megaupload can be downloaded.Supported Filehosting : -
# Rapidshare, Megaupload, Netload, Hotfile, Depositfiles, Filefactory, Storage.to, Megashares, Uploading.com, Easy-Share, MediaFire.Traffic Limit : -
# Rapidshare 7GB/Daily Individual
# Filefacotry & DepositFiles (12GB/Daily Shared among all user)
# Megaupload, Netload, Hotfile, Storage.to, Megashares, Uploading.com, Easy-Share, MediaFire (UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD)Range of speed (FILEHOSTING to SERVER) : -
# We cannot guarantee it’ll be HighSpeed.
# Range 300KB/s – 7MB/sRange of speed (SERVER to PC) : -
# Max speed.
# Max concurrent connection: 24 including surfing DLNext & Downloading to PC.Terms and Conditions: -
# No refunds.
# Shared account is allowed. (Not more than 2 user including urself)
# No remote-upload (Permanent BAN)
# No sharing links to non-subscriber (Permanent BAN)
And finally, the package:
DLNext Premium Service PACKAGE
Inclusive: 20GB Storage , Unlimited download to PC , 24 Max Concurrent.
7 days premium account – RM10
1 month premium account – RM30
3 months premium account – RM80
6 months premium account – RM150Additional storage 10GB = RM10/month (At least 10GB)
Why I chose them?
1. He is a reliable service provider; the thread has already reached 142 pages loonoooog…
2. Based on the comments from the users, he has been providing very fast service!
3. There are lots of positive feedback on the server uptime and reliability.
4. For a start, 20GB storage is HUGE!
5. You gained premium access to SEVEN file hosting under one account; that is RM100 cheaper (and will be way cheaper if we talk about monthts of subcription)
6. Fast transfer speed from Server to PC, i.e. I maxed out my access speed to 1.5 Mbps
7. My good experience during the beta test
8. It uses the famous rapidleech script, which I have been using for quite some time already on my shared server. So, there is almost no learning curve for me
He took about 5 minutes (from the moment I made my payment) to configure my account. Was it fast? ABSOLUTE YES! He then gave me the login server details along with my login details. Without hesitance, I logged into the server:
The login page looks very simple and neat, so you could expect the loading page to be extremely fast.
Above, is the main page of DLNext. Simple, yet informative. And, you doesn’t need to be a TechG33K to get around the interface, as it is very user-friendly and pretty straightforward. Just head to AutoDownload section to dump your links for downloading purpose.
I decided to give try, i.e. downloaded several files from HotFile server. It turned out to be really good; downloading at 6.5 Mbps speed. Very impressive!
And finally, the ultimate test, download speed from the DLNext server to the PC. Let`s see whether it lives up to expectation..
NICE! It almost maxed out my access speed (1.5Mbps).
The Conclusion: The only drawback of this service is you could download one file at a time from RS/MU/HF to the server, but this setback is counter-balanced with lightning downloading speed. So, I have no issue on that. Overall, I am very satisfied with the service. I believe I may terminate my RS premium account later and add 10GB to DLNext storage space to provide some breathing room (buffer). With this sort of speed, coupled with responsive and excellent customer support (did I tell you, he added me into his YM so that I can just ask him question straight away), I believe DLNext is here to stay. I hereby recommend to those who are looking forward to subscribe to any of the filehosting server, to stop and look at what DLNext has to offer. I bet you it is really worth it!
p/s: Oh crap, my 1.5 TB of harddisk is almost full…
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