Serenity Aeternae

Having gone through the massive effort of making my Knights Of Serenity video, I couldn't bring myself to kill all my raw source materials without at least doing one more video. Like before, this is a music video using clips from the TV series Firefly and its follow-up theatrical feature Serenity. This time, the song used is "Sarabande Suite (Aeternae)" from Globus's brilliant album Epicon. As before, the 2.35 aspect version of the video is embedded at the bottom of this page...

That embedded encode above is at a fairly low bitrate and quality level, but is at least at 1280x720 resolution (which you'll take advantage of if you view it in full screen). I mastered the video in full 1080p high def and have included a lower bitrate 1080p download of the files as linked below the embedded versions (honestly, it's pretty amazing what the Mpeg4 codecs can do using only about 6.4 mb of bitrate with a full 1080p video). I had to keep those 1080p download versions under 200mb to serve them using MediaFire. And for the record, none of this is done with malicious copyright infringement intentions. It's just a tech nerd messing around with one of his fanboy obsession TV shows (contender for the greatest series in TV history). Here's some useless facts about this video:

• I toyed with a few different songs from Globus's Epicon album. I even started assembling clips to one of them before I decided it didn't work. I wanted to use something from that album, so I experimented around before deciding to use the track I used.
• I'm much happier with how the first half of this video turned out than the last half (which still works, but not as perfectly as the first).
• The music is actually an edit from the full original song. I removed material from the start and end of the song to cut it down to the material I thought would work.
• One of my all-time coolest edits is in this video, where the camera pans down from the rubber ball through the floor to River listening from below. These scenes both have that "through the floor" panning trick, but they didn't actually go together. Amusingly, as I've edited them, it's River listening to herself playing on the floor above.
• I tried to mix it up with which clips I used in this video, trying to work in a good number of bits that I didn't use in the previous video. Also, I had to leave out a number that I did want to use again, if for no other reason than the fact that this video is only about 2/3 as long as the previous one.
• If you wanna see all the technical details of the making of this video, it's the same as the ones I detailed on the Knights Of Serenity video page.

And if you're really curious and want to check out the original aspect ratio version, without any pan/scanning and/or cropping, you can snag the 1080p version of that here.