LeaD 2 (Out Now!) - Page 5

Crest · 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by josh1337

Questions I didn't put in my review:

1. Who edited which part?
2. How did you mask the pistol so well at the end of the intro/your sig? Did you use vegas and feather it?
3. Why no credits? No time.... no response from the community or what?

1. I edited Hold your Colour. Honey did everything else.

2. The pistol looked so good because I did it. Spent 4 hours alone on those 81 frames. I masked the Pistol in After Effects. No feather.

3. Not my area.

Phurion · #42 (**permalink**) 07-02-2008

Crest....that intro was f..king incredible.

lHlolNeYlNuTZz · #43 (**permalink**) 07-02-2008

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Originally Posted by josh1337

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This is probably the most anticipated montage of the past two years. I'll give a history to commemorate.

03-16-2007
Lead: The first h2f halo pc community montage is posted. It receives excellent reviews among regulars and mixed reviews among the competitive community.

03-25-2007
Mister Newb had been spreading propaganda of a second community video. Thoughts go around that a second Lead should be made to build from the success of the first. Bridging the gap between pc and xbox as well as other ideas float around.08-17-2007
Honey and Crest make it official. They agree to create a Lead 2 and start accepting clips from the community. Anticipation builds as players from around the globe record themselves.08-23-2007
Lead 2 Music thread is created. Ideas about the songs are introduced and voted on by members that happen to be around.

9-18-2007
The music votes are in! (Can't Get My) Head Aroud You - The Offspring garners fifty percent of the vote.

09-19-2007
Lead 2 Official Thread is created by Honey. As the collection of clips grows the management tries to keep everything running smooth.10-06-2007
Honey and Crest ask for PMs about the credits. Dzasta sums it up nicely with this "We are a very diverse group of indeviduals here in the halo 1 section. we include Serious montage kids, KW montage kids, and people who jsut love to see someone get stuck across map. Halo 1 started it all and we continue to keep the tradition going. Nothing can pull us a part. We are all connected with one each other, through halo, IM, h3f, and cyber sex (Elmo

) and our bond can never be broken. Well thats all i can think of in 2 minutes <3 <3 <3 to all h1ers <3 <3 <3"

11-12-2007
Muffin makes support Lead 2 sigs. They acheive minimal success despite his best marketing efforts. They can be seen here: http://files.filefront.com/lead+2+si.../fileinfo.html12-09-2007
Honey asks the community if this video should be announced. A resounding yes is received as well as questions as to the competition date. January of 2008 seems reasonable.

3-08-2008
Mods close the official Lead 2 thread and a revolution occurs between the halo 1 section peons and the all powerful mobkerators. It is a short lived battle with many people banned and even more people's threads closed. A small outbreak of AIDS is also detected.

Month 3 - Month 6
Months pass with the release date being pushed back every day. Crest seems to have given up on his closest pals and with Elmo's ban the section is overrun by 3 day videos and minitages and h2 kids.

6-04-2008
B SiK closes the Official Lead 2 thread. Is all hope lost for our beloved video?

6-30-08
Crest's status reading 6.30.08 comes with no official news of Lead 2. But before all hope is lost very confidential information streams through xfire and h2f PMs revealing a nearly completed video. Crest seems to be finishing!

7-02-08
Lead 2 is released in this thread! It receives mixed reviews.

Future
Is Lead 3 a possibility? Will Honey and Crest EVER take on another video again? Does Elmo have herpes? These questions may never be answered.[b]

I'm putting the history in the first post I love it and you

VA BlackHawk · 11:29 PM

Defiantly going to check this out..

Edit: I enjoyed it, Very well done.

Nastadon · 10/24/08

There was like 2-3 XBC plays all from Skunk. Thought there would have been more. Well that sucks.

Liked the music, and editing since it wasn't over done. Intro was amazing(with the spawning and pistol popping up while flying through the maps). Would give it a 5/10 though. Gameplay wasn't that great at all... for 23 players every clip should have been a triple killtac!

I do feel like playing Halo PC just for the fact that so many people play it. So easy to get a game and everyone is a noob it seems.

lHlolNeYlNuTZz · #46 (**permalink**) 07-02-2008

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Originally Posted by josh1337

3. Why no credits? No time.... no response from the community or what?

As for no credits I'll explain I guess.

When Mr Newb started talking about doing a LeaD 2 it annoyed me a little so I kinda rushed in and took over and I think I dragged Crest along with me. I feel now like for that first little while that he wasn't totally into doing the project like I was. That being said the project still went on and all the clips were collected and editing began. Through most of the editing period me and Crest didn't talk at all.

Around late December 07 early January 08 I was pretty much done my half I had 3 songs 2 of which appear in this montage and a 3rd which contained Yetly's xbc clips more of Kriptics xbc clips and a few more clips from Torc and Slick. Also around this time I started running into virus problems sometimes my computer would be so slow it was un-usable. So I started backing up files which basically means I sent my LeaD 2 work to Elmo. Then we took my computer into a place for it to be fixed. The computer got fixed I got it back and had it for about another month till my HD crashed. In that month I had made credits that I was extremely happy with. But when my HD crashed I lost it all so I knew that I had given Elmo 2 of my 3 songs for lead just in case I did lose my Computer so he could keep them and give them to Crest. So when my HD crashed I sent Elmo a PM from a school computer telling him what had happened so he would know to give crest my 2 songs so he could finish up. I didn't know when I would get another computer but w/e I knew crest would get my half and everything would be go ok all he had to do was make credits.

So when I finally did get a new computer say 2 3 months later. I was surprised to say the least that LeaD 2 still was not out when I came back. Shortly after that the whole situation with the LeaD 2 thread broke out and it pissed me off a little the way people where acting and also that Crest at least hadn't been more vocal about his reasons for not finishing. Crest told me numerous times that he was busy with school and unable to make any progresses on the video. I posted this a few times but nobody seemed to listen.

I went back to make a new set of credits which contained a message at the end which was kind of a f..k you to anybody who doubted that we where going to finish it. Basically because I was pissed off at the whole situation.

When I felt the video was finally going to be finished I went and re did the end of last song adding on the end of it which I had originally cut short because I had 3 songs. I also cut the credits out along with the f..k you message because I wasn't as mad about it anymore and I couldn't really blame you guys for reacting to such along wait time because I had hyped the montage so much. So I decided just put the essential info at the end along with some newer clips from me and Elmo which would also show off some of the CE maps we had started playing on.

In the end Crest told me he was sorry for stringing everyone including me along.

As for a possible LeaD 3 I would say no the LeaD montages stop here I think.

Lets see how remedys community tage comes out