[RELEASE] Cock Hero - Redemption

[sopio]

Hi Everyone!

I would like to introduce my first video, Cock Hero Redemption. As others have mentioned, creating a Cock Hero video is very time consuming. I have other productions planned but they will be much shorter in length. I got a bit ambitious on this one and took a while to put together.

When I started the project my objectives were as follows:

- Excellent image quality (Main sequence content: 70% 1080p, 30% 720p. Retro Bonus round is SD but on split frames)
- Astonishing girls with real bodies (no huge fake boobs)
- No 2-3 guys per girl (No DP, Bukkake or abuse of any kind). However, lots of anal are present and multiple girls per guy.
- Hot steamy sex scenes all around
- Amazing bouncy butts and riding scenes (if this is your thing I think you will like Round #5)
- No condoms
- Predominantly a POV perspective
- Lots and lots of content, no scene ever repeats
- 3 play modes based on time available to play and skill
- Simple beats throughout with several variations but no impossibly fast, numbing strokes that run for several minutes.
- Retro bonus round. Just wanted to try it and gauge reactions

This video does not contain a visual beat bar. I really like the Cock Hero Flux Dance format, the beats are clearly identified with easy to follow tones and on-screen instructions. I believe they are less distracting and allow the player to be more immersed on the imagery than staring at the bottom 50px on the screen.

Some Cock Hero productions that inspired me are:
Flux Dance, Boss, Levels, Mindwarp, Stroker Ace, Pink Complex, With Pleasure & Max series.

Please feel free to upload the video to Emporium, I do not have an account.
Once you download please seed the video for others (BitTorrent). Duration 90min - 3.2Gb
Now also available to stream @ http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?v ... 460f38022f

You can download the 720p version with beats @ http://filecloud.io/_m07841lh
If would would like the full video with NO Beats, PMV style, you can download it here @ http://www.filehosting.org/file/details ... 0p_PMV.mp4

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Thanks & Enjoy!
Sopio

[wakel]

Sounds great, I always welcome new talent!

[Ozymandius]

Downloading the Hub stream. I want to say thanks. There are so many Cock Heros that I haven't played because of the massive file size and my slow-ass internet. I want to say thanks to all of those who upload a stream to hub sites and the like so peons like myself can enjoy them. And although not having them in ultra hi-def may take a little away from the experience...Gator don't play that shit. I will play it as SOON as I get the chance. Cheers!!

[ComboNo1]

WOW!

I loved this!

I finally got the chance to watch this last night before I went to bed. I played through the first half, then kind of skipped ahead a couple times real quick to see if the quality was as good throughout the video (it was).

This is the most aesthetically pleasing Cock Hero video I think I have ever seen. I can't compliment you enough on the quality of the scenes you selected (and the total number too, you must have download A LOT). Everything is like soft lighting, highly professional looking scenes, flawlessly good looking girls. It's beautiful!

I enjoyed the slower stroking pace. It gives you a chance to really appreciate what you're looking at and get into the video, instead of just wearing you down with super fast beats until you finally succumb. When I got where I needed to go, I didn't have an exhausted arm, and I wasn't feeling numb. Very nice!

I also really liked the idea for the "rest or gently stroke" before each round. That was a nice touch too.

All in all this is an excellent video. Wonderful job! Thank you for this!

[sopio]

Thank you very much ComoNo1! I'm glad you enjoyed it, I tried to pick a variety of girls, some well known and several lesser known beauties.

[Malaronia]

First of all: Thanks for your effort. I think it's a big amount of work, assembling all the material and mixing it. My personal opinion:

Things I liked:
The clips chosen. Very nice, beautiful and arousing too.
The music chosen*.
The beats*
You uploading it to a streaming site.

Things I didn't like at all:
The mix of the different elements (<--*).
It really bothers me, when the added beats don't match the music rhythmically. In this case: not only are they asynchronous, they are at different speeds. It distracts me so much, I can't continue videos which have that problem, including this one ;o/ (this might be my personal problem, I don't know)

Also, in the beginning you made around 5% of the videos' sound audible. I prefer hearing the sound all the time (simultaneously to the music), even if it might disturb the music. Some videos of course don't have sound themselves, but that's a minority of the videos you use, I presume.

[bhlombardy]

I'm going to second just about everything Malaronia said about likes and dislikes.

The video quality is excellent, so great choices there, but the mis-matched beat is so distracting (in yours and other videos), that it messes with one's concentration and makes it unplayable.

Fix the beat timing, and this would be superb.

[m.a.c.x]

I agree

I think this can be one of the best.. but you need fix theese beats.
Someone help him! :D

[sopio]

Thank you all for the feedback.
I tried to match the beat of the songs as much as possible. I used BPM Counter to figure out the beats per minute of each song. I accelerate them in conjunction to the music and scenes. I honestly thought that aspect was ok. Some specifics would be nice like which chapters that do a better job that others. I think I can fix some elements but committing to change the beats of the entire production will require more time than I am willing to invest.
As far as

I prefer hearing the sound all the time (simultaneously to the music)

, I combined several clip sounds but most clips have background music themselves which makes it very distracting. Most CH videos I have seen mute the clip sound. I take that to be a more a personal preference than a general statement on the format of CH videos.

Again, thank for the comments. I will certainly take them into account for the next video and if someone is willing to help, I can work on a v1.1 of this release.

[NeedBiggerClips]

Checked the video out but was also very much distracted by the mismatched beats.

The way I do it is:
Open the song in Audacity (free audio manipulation software). It shows the waveform of the audio (or the song in this case), you can then add another audio track and open your beats on that one. You can easily match the music and the beats in the music by eye, just play the music back in the editor to make sure and make fixes if needed. Just zoom in and out on the timeline to make the beats more visible for more accurate placement. :)

This is also the first step when I'm making a beatmeter, as you can just mute the music, leaving in the beats only. Export the beats only version as a mp3, open it up on After Effects and generate a dead accurate beatmeter that way.
Follow this youtube guide for a more in-depth instructions: https://youtu.be/c6FOuC0g7_w

If you're going to re-do the beats, you might as well do a beat meter. Once you got it set-up, you can reuse the same After Effects project and make a new meter in a few seconds. If you want, you can use the project file I used for POV 2

BeatMeter2point0.rar

Adobe After Effects Beatmeter project file

(9.86 KiB) Downloaded 92 times

[boobness]

I had the same problem with the beats, it's really off-putting. The scene selection and editing was awesome though, I think if you want a quick solution you can just remove the beat noises and guide the player with text so the they can find their own 1-2-3 beats or double-time or whatever :)

[book_guy]

Aha. These are mis-matched beats I wrongly attributed to Titfuck, I bet. Ooops ...

[desertfox]

I hate to pile on with the mismatched beats, but I want to add on to it. I was able to kind of mentally disconnect from the song and stick to the beats, but it took away some. The only reason I am even posting this is because the video choice, editing, and pacing are just A+ work.

For a quick example if you go around 10:35 on the first track, you can hear a double beat a few times from your beat meter and the songs beat. I think you have the BPM correctly, they are just slightly misaligned. It might be possible if you have all the beats on your timeline you can just slide them all together just a bit and align them more as one.

Anyway, I can understand the need to not want to revisit something that is already out though, especially a porn related project. Regardless if you want to take a look back at it, this is a first rate cock hero and is really, really well done!

[sopio]

The consensus is quite clear. I would like to correct the beats but my time is quite limited at the moment at least for the next couple of months (several projects and a hectic travel schedule)
I will release a v1.1 when I get around to it. If someone would like to help and collaborate I could easily provide the audio track.
If there are any volunteers please let me know.

Thanks.

[Etch]

This is just awesome. One of the best videos i have seen so far.
I really like the pace of the beats.
The only thing that is better are the really hot scenes.

I hope to see more stuff like this in the future