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IcyMidnight
Boot
Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 66 Location: San Francisco, CA
DrBunker wrote:
Unfortunately I have no experience deconstructing videos. Any suggestions or should I just wait for someone else to do it?
I just looked for the obvious "flash" between cuts and figured there was a frame hidden there.
I used the super advanced technique of tapping the spacebar rapidly twice (quick play, pause) to advance approximately frame by frame.
You could Google up ways to get at the flv from YouTube and look at the video in a some nice video player that has frame by frame advance.
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:26 pm
DrBunker
Decorated
Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 233 Location: Southern UK
I downloaded the video and used FLV viewer but all I saw were "help" twice b/c it wasn't moving between frames one at a time.
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:15 pm
paperbound
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Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 135 Location: Texas
All I've been able to see in the frames is "I need help" split up, the word "help" repeated a few more times along with one frame that appears to say "help me please" in the top corner.
For what it's worth I used this site:
http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/
It breaks it down into frames, but there's no option to pause/slow it down, so I couldn't grab screens to post here. I'm at work so I'm really not that much help, but there you have it.
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:46 pm
thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6899 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
yep, I just checked the HQ mp4, and found nothing but a bunch of 'help' frames. haven't checked audio
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:09 pm
IcyMidnight
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Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 66 Location: San Francisco, CA
paperbound wrote:
For what it's worth I used this site:
http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/
It breaks it down into frames, but there's no option to pause/slow it down, so I couldn't grab screens to post here. I'm at work so I'm really not that much help, but there you have it.
FWIW, if you click the show video button, there's a pause control. You can also play around with zooming in/out.
Nice tool BTW!
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:10 pm
Saki
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Joined: 17 Sep 2008 Posts: 278 Location: the Internet
I got subscribed to on YouTube ^^ But I rechecked my inbox and saw that I'd been Twitter'd as well. I'm glad to be back in the game
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:38 pm
Chance
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Joined: 04 Feb 2009 Posts: 142 Location: Pittsburgh
Followed me and DartNet isn't twittering as much, so I'm in.
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:20 am
TAPshooter
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Joined: 16 Jun 2009 Posts: 29
A friend of mine got followed on twitter so I came here to read up on what was happening. Here are the images I grabbed out of the video...
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:56 am
missunderstood8
Boot
Joined: 02 Jul 2009 Posts: 13
Got twittered and youtube-d as well...must be the latest, greatest way to launch your ARG...not sure this one has me totally intrigued yet...
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:19 am
Merago
Unfettered
Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 341
Can anyone think of any significance to the swans in the vid?
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:05 am
DrBunker
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Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 233 Location: Southern UK
Merago wrote:
Can anyone think of any significance to the swans in the vid?
Lost?
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:10 am
Nessa
Boot
Joined: 15 Jul 2009 Posts: 54 Location: East TN
Merago wrote:
Can anyone think of any significance to the swans in the vid?
The only thing I can think of would be this excerpt from Wikipedia (I know, reliable source, right?):
Wiki wrote:
In the Finnish epic Kalevala, a swan lives in the Tuoni river located in Tuonela, the underworld realm of the dead. According to the story, whoever killed a swan would perish as well.
It's the only "dark" or "shadowy" connection to swans I can think of- aside from Greek mythology, where Zeus raped Leda while in the form of a swan.
I don't think either of these are really relevant, however...
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:36 pm
Laguz
Boot
Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 27
twitter followed as well I thought it was a little strange when I seen his twitters. this is the first time I have been followed for an ARG as well
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:52 pm
FSURobbie
Guest
And here I was wondering who my strange new follower was...
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:23 pm
WolfHawk
Entrenched
Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 1247 Location: St. Louis
spionchen wrote:
I got the follow too. Twitter definitely seems to be the new ARG medium. Unfortunately with all the Bot/Spam followers I get, I tend to miss the start of new games. Glad I saw this one early on.
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Heh, you weren't the only one. I got it too and ignored it. Guess I'll check it out now. Hope it's not too late.
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:34 pm
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