JEd Wars

[504islandboi]

This was the shit

[animationhero421]

this would go great with battle of the heroes in this video why hasn't any one done this yet

[awesometology]

LOL google earth?

[TheEddieWan]

are you talking about how it pans through the starfield to the earth? I made that, no google earth

[CoolManProduction]

Where did you get the sound effects and the world at the bigining.

[TheEddieWan]

I searched Google for the effects, it's been a while so I don't remember. The world was just a picture I found, and added a starfield to it.

[awesometology]

cool

[Sweetestpoisont]

a galaxy not so far away but still different from our own huh?

[taylorownsxbox]

good job guis

[ModernNosferatu]

I thought this was going to be cheese but it was actually really well done... costumes would have been excellent

[suffechail]

nice vid but it is not like a movie

[JoeBoydful]

loved it. made me really emotional

[Zack7CloudxAnimeFan]

where did the person jump from at the beginning?o.o

[TheEddieWan]

that scene is actually two composited shots...him jumping down is one and me walking up is another. The height he jumps from is actually a digital clone we animated down. In real life, he only jumped about 2 feet.

[Zack7CloudxAnimeFan]

ok thx for explaining =0

[jeaspers]

well done

[RevealedTricks123]

thts rly good

[chiaruscuro]

Ed, I got here through your status on FB... Looked at your channel.. Never knew you were also into video editing, animation, & design! Keep it up!

--fellow h-college student

[craigodawg19]

thts amazing dude!!

[jordanwo429re]

omg man you rock on here lmao keep it up im looking for a sequel and one more thing u just got a subscriber

have a good time lol

[dude20333]

awesome vid

[colinthe26]

excellent, except for the skateboard bit.

[mavericks417]

that was freakin awesome

it must have taken forever

[L2Gladiator]

omg you are a noob.green and purple lighsaber are from the jedi.

[Axeon420]

lol ...

[ech0side]

Awesome :P

[Vegetfred]

Did you guys use Final cut pro? and did you import the saber effect with aftereffects?

[DaManSniper]

Damn Gooood. what movie maker???

[Exceltia]

Probably Final Cut Pro or After Effects.

[DaManSniper]

OKi thanks:)

[bamapride111]

good job but you should really make a story out of this

[frankygarciafilms]

nice job fellas, but the skateboards were beyond corny

[McHizzie]

that was actually good!

[crazzychar5]

that very gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooddddddddddd­ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

[Sirusf]

THAT WAS SOOO GOOD!

[Otvil]

good effects

[jorgeapariciosuarez]

that wath pretty good what program did you use

[kenyarules11]

thats pretty cool

[cupdoods]

amazing final cut HD!

[dbaylis1150]

I love the white mini-van in the background, really makes it look ummm, modern.

The wormhole at the end is very cool.

[angelface108]

LOL.

[jediknightdirector77]

Good video guys. But ther is't any resolution at the end. Are they equal or is one better than the other? My guess is that they are equal. But this is still a very good video. Props for using FC HD. I(we) use FC Pro 3 (I think) at my high school.

[ezra5000]

HOLY CRAP THAT WAS GOOD

[Yod0]

where from he jump? o_O

very great work. Well done!

[anakin896]

awesome video

[KaneKnowsAll]

Nothing Compared to Ryan Vs Dorkman 1 & 2

Type in Youtube, Ryan Vs Dorkman, and you will see 2 amature people, Seem like Movie Stars, It's Amazing, This is crapy compared to Ryan Vs Dorkman, But still, Good Work guys ;-)

[AwEsOmEXxXeRiC]

Awesome dude

[Hex72]

Awesome saber fight. :) The effects look good, I particularly liked the sparks.

[dexscottxboxlive]

fucking awsome

[rockboy321]

lol i like it XD

[treborproductions]

amazing job .. now just add filters and you're on your way to becoming an amazing video producer.

[Des182]

brilliant

[GH2nRS4life]

very very very good and funny

[necroskull83]

WTF ?

[Wootch]

i love the car that drives past at 1:10 it is going like 200 mp/h

[shoulderbear]

cool

[peterey74]

tht was insanely awesome, very professional and choreographed too :)

[herbertch]

Very nice job. Awesome.

[BlahBohogun]

the force is not magic!!!!!!!!!

[Ramza1316]

Nice I could tell you spent a lot of time on that, I like the jump and the skateboards lol....

[vazacentrumsk]

From where do u have those cool sounds of a lightsaber ???

[lapollarecord]

very nice video ; ) !

[mrsmith22586]

The jump in the beginning was pretty crazy. He landed to softly for it to be real. Was that after effects too or does the guy have robot legs?

[TheEddieWan]

I never used After Effects, it's all Photoshop ImageReady. What we did was we shot the scene with me walking up and him standing there, and then when I stopped walking, he jumped up normally and then landed. I then edited him out on every frame until the frame where he started descending from his jump. Then I cut out/pasted a couple different jump poses of him into the previous frames higher and higher and higher in the air to look like he was falling.

[DarthKozil]

freaking sweet dudes!

[63301]

great video. wish i was that good

[s4uc3ybaby]

Program is Called  "After Effects"

[xXlokeXx]

you know how to fall with a lightsaber

[hanistar18]

Cool! how do you make lightsaber effects on films? JEALOUS TO THE MAX!

[ziggy557]

how do you make lightsaber on films?

[K33p3r99]

nice guys keep it up

[lapollarecord]

oh my god , very nice video gyus !

[lapollarecord]

nice video !

[dirtydan93]

hey, that was pretty kool! good job guys!

[SplinterCell00004]

Pause the vid on 1:11 exactly. A Super Duper X412326i SpaceShuttle is coming in for landing... or wait... no... no, it's just a Ford. Very well done. Try and get a venue a little less public coz to be honest I think the silver person-carrier kills it.

[TheEddieWan]

haha yeah we didn't notice there was a car in that scene until we put it all together and were like "oh well, leave it in". we actually digitally edited out another car in the following scene (you can see a small flicker of it on the right side at 1:20). We did a lot of that kind of real-time deletion of objects. If you notice, there are no shadows of the sticks we used for the lightsabers on the ground or on our bodies (except the first scene).

[mviku1]

This video is really well done, nice

[Kfaw]

very nice vid ! :D

[humewood1]

very clever.

[dirtrider163]

KICK ASS MOVIE

[ropehand]

What are the specs on your MacBook pro?

[TheEddieWan]

2.33GHz Intel Core Duo2, 3GB RAM, 150GB HD, Radeon Mobility X1600, 15" screen version. Not really awesome stats, but they're the highest you can select when you make your MacBook Pro purchase (except the screen size).

[thecucumber360]

Very cool! :-)

[cazza00]

great job

[MAXXO604]

this is a great video, even the credits are amazing!

[myhomerulz]

so awesome it was the coolest move ever

[primefanatic]

that was freaking awesome i would love to do something like that but i just got gmvs check them out if u want 5/5

[Jortska]

nice

[Shedoshai]

not bad!

[evanescencefan444444]

lol this is so funny nice job

[gamedude107]

ur moves SUCKED so did the music

if you want to see a GOOD duel then watch anakin vs obi wan on ep 3 the music owns!

[ducktorwho]

shu up

[Stabmasterninja]

dude... what's the difference between a movie made by like 3 dudes and a movie made by a movie company?

nevermind... it's a rhetorical question.

[gamedude107]

ill answer anyway, the one made by the 3 dudes looks CRAP

[TheEddieWan]

If you can't appreciate a low-budget film made by 3 dudes in highschool, get the fuck off YouTube.

And it was actually only 2 dudes.

[Attackspeed]

I second that -_-

[CaramelChai]

I think you guys are brilliant =D

[DylOweed]

gah another over done star wars vid

[Kamelg]

i must say: cool man

[photonXspark]

lol that was pretty cool! nice work

[CookiesfromHell]

In the 21st Century, a bunch of nerds found out how to make lightsabers in their own home movies, and everybody puts out their own amateur content on YouTube.

Also, there is Duel of the Fates? Have you heard of Duel of the Fates?

[NYWanderer]

cool ending! XD

[greytale]

That was pretty fun, considering the limited resources and all that... you have to start SOMEwhere!

I started with "Balance of Power"... so everyone has room to grow now don't they...

[BlackKnight71]

rofl...

[TBLightning37]

how do u make the light sabers?

[NYWanderer]

its called after affects

[TheEddieWan]

blue/green/white outer glows over white-filled lassos in Photoshop ImageReady

[NYWanderer]

was ur photoshop free?

[TheEddieWan]

nah it was like $250, after a student rebate thing. I just had to prove I was a college student. A lot of software have student discounts.

[SpeakHearSeeNoEvil]

Could've done without the skateboards, otherwise very good

[Tank797]

wow skate boards ur some fuckin noobs i hope u die

HAHAHAH PWNED NOOBS AND DIE NERDS LMFAO

[cahi3]

wow skate boards ur some fuckin noobs i hope u die

[Arcadiaus]

The skateboard idea wasn't a good one

[BCVSDJHFV]

you know its called jedi not jed right?

[TheEddieWan]

yeah we knew but his name is Joseph and mine is Ed so we thought "let's call it JEd Wars!" Stupid, I know...sounds like a hillbilly version of Star Wars

[DMXell]

That was done on a Mac? Before I read the description it looked like it was done using Windows Movie Maker, Zwei-Stein and LS Maker/After Effects. Good video though! My only fret was that the opening cral wasn't actually true to the star wars style.

[TheEddieWan]

Well it's a MacBook Pro with BootCamped Windows XP, so I can switch between OS's at any given time. So it's true that the crawl was done in WMM, but the JED WARS logo's fly-back animation we use is nowhere to be found in WMM. I used Final Cut Express HD on OS X for that, and many other things. Photoshop CS was used for the starfield-to-earth pan. We just tried to make the programs cooperate seamlessly by using the same starfield throughout the project.

[TheEddieWan]

PS. It shows a complete list of the programs we used on this project, and which OS was used, at the end of the video if you care to know specifically.

[DMXell]

If you can somehow gaina ccess to Adobe After Effects, the scroll becomes much better though more complicated. From what I hear, Blender (open source alternative to 3D Max) does a greate job at rendering the opening crawl and creating space ships for movies, may be worth while to invest time in learning it if you want to make some really great short films (loved this one).

[DMXell]

PS. I read the description, as I said in my original post. But before it I thought that the effects might have been done completely in Windows. Then I saw Macbook Pro, and Final Cut Pro and was like, "nope, this was done on some good crap :-p" I got the crawl right though.

[Deadman207]

NEERDS!

[DTwirler]

Whee! I love! ;o)

[Bajamug]

I enjoyed my stay.

-Papero

eBaumsworld affiliate

[mactalker]

thats was awesome! make more!! good job guys

[TheEddieWan]

Thanks! Yeah we plan on doing an Episode II soon. Keep an eye out