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Surprise, here's yet another episode. This one's more action-oriented and plays like some of the earlier ones, so I think fans of the series will like this one more. I wasted pretty much an entire night trying to solve the WMV encoding problem that plagued the last episode, but was finally able to crack it, so hopefully this means no more video/audio anomalies in the future.

This wasn't made during the gap between the last one. I started working on this one on Saturday and it wasn't finished until yesterday. Believe it or not, I can't do much more than about 3 minutes a day on an episode, and that's under good circumstances and not counting additional sound editing. That may sound ludicrous, but it actually does take me that long, I've tried to do it faster before. It's not because I'm lazy, I just don't know how to move faster and still have the show come out as well. While it's loads faster than Civil Protection, it's basically a process of going through a clip, thinking of a line, recording said line many times as I'm not the greatest voice actor (this can range from 2 - 20+ takes, depending on the line and how important it is), editing through all said takes and arranging it in the episode. If I was a better voice actor and good at improvisation I could probably be done with the game by now. In this reality however, the next episode will probably be out sometime late Monday.

In other news, I still want to catch up on subtitles, website improvements, extras, emails, and many other things, but for the moment I'm just focusing on getting the videos out.


EDIT:

I'm probably going to have to add this to the FAQ. Several of you were asking why the episode was up on Youtube before it was up on here. The answer is I never know when the video is going to be up on Youtube. I have to check it, same as you. It's someone else's job to upload it and they're usually pretty busy to be able to answer my inquests all the time. In this case I was taking a nap when it went up since I've been working night hours so it's quiet enough for me to me record (my old spot got converted to someone else's office). Since I'm in a different room this is also why there's more of an echo in recent episodes.


EDIT 2:

Well I finished episode 22, but I don't have control over when it gets released. The original schedule was Monday, but things got pretty close to the wire on this one. I guess it's Tuesday now?

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I would love to hear some bloopers one day.

i love Freemans mind and Civil Protection.
if you want HQ vids without incresing the file size to much
try useing the DivX converter.you can find the codes to get it fully working
on youtube.its what i use for the anime i put up there.

my youtube name is gamertecno.

Dang, you work fast.

Another brilliant episode, though I must admit this one did seem a bit rushed compared to previous entries. Still, keep up the good work mate, looking forward to the next Civil Protection too!

Leo BT, UK.

man ross FM and CP are the best things on Machinama, Another hilarious episode and man don't go so hard on yourself with that "I'm a bad improver thing" it coem out funnier than I anything I would be able to come up with.

As Freeman would say:

"Awesome"

J.C.

My god your on a roll strike the iron while its hot eh?

But anyway i am loving this new make so much content my users will never have to leave the house again schedule, keep it up man.

Damn Ross...you are a machine! Awesome work as always!

Bloopers please!

"Not the suit!" LOL

Holy shit! That magnum or whatever is bigger than the guards hand. You could pick it up tho and made some Dirty Harry references.

awesome!

I'm loving this rapid fire Freeman thing. I don't have to be dying for the next episode for as long.

I hope you're leaving yourself enough time to relax. Thanks for another great episode.

Updates multiple times a week. This is total awesome sauce. Weeeeee!

Wooh, I been waiting for you to reach this big blue bastard. I sure as hell hope you don't use notarget for this guy, it takes away all the fun of seeing you running around in the same room as him. As always, good luck!

Holy crap you're fast... and you covered a lot of ground in this episode!

Does that second "Machinima.com" 3D logo need to be in both the beginning and at the end though? I like to watch these back to back on my computer, and having the swirly logo twice in a row seems like overkill. I understand it's good for Youtube, but not in the downloadable file, please?

Thanks,

~ David

Good job.

Loved it as always :D

Keep up the awesome work!

You're a machine! Awesome work - love the series.

Hey man, it takes as long as it takes, of course on our end we enjoy speedy updates but we'd be foolish to expect them and stupid if it comes at the expense of good work. You're doing an awesome job.

All I've got to say is that your process is working, and working very well.

I'd just like to say that this was possibly one of the funniest videos I've ever seen!

I love all of your work, your ideas are so original, and genius!

Half Life was and is my favorite game ever conceived, considering the time made, the length of the game, moddibility, etc., and watching Freeman's Mind has really reminded me why I love it so much.

I hope your career at Machinima continues to go well, your fan-base grows tremendously, and you continue to pump out extremely excellent-quality content as quickly and patiently as you can!

Wow man 3 days after the last episode! That's pure awesomeness on top of the awesomeness that this series already has! DOUBLE AWESOME!

i can say the script is getting better and i look forward to which cheat code your going to use to get past that monstrosity in the train dome.

Damn, you're doing this faster. Tried not to over do it man. Plus, both the CPs and FMs are extremly funny.

Holy freaking God dude, that was fast.

Awesome episode too. Try not to work yourself to death!

Holy shit dude, good effort! Try not to burn out though :(

Considering I only watch the downloads I only got around to watching this today, and mere hours later there's another one. Take a break, relax.

Try not to make your own head explode from the work Mr. Scott!!!

Holy crap that was fast!

For the record...I think the echo in your recording is kinda fitting. I can see there being some kind of echo in Black Mesa.

I don't know who suggested DivX, but i plea you not to use it.

First DivX isn't 100% free anymore (converters a trail and it also adds a watermark), and second because because it's not a lose less video compression format.

If you really must go with avi, use Xvid.. it's free and open source.

Also anime is best in mkv, everyone knows that.

Wow, Your pumping these cartoons out really really fast. 3 minutes a day is fine for someone who works on their own. Quantity over quality is fine by me.

Man that was fast.. made my day much better, thanks!

Now, I can't wait till the garg chases you!

OMG another episode! Are you trying to finish this series for the entire Half Life before the year ends? Now I'm checking this site everyday for new FM episodes!

excellent video Ross, it's obvious now that even at a higher rate of episode production it's still funny as hell.

Great stuff man, but don't over work yourself!
Slow and steady wins the race...

damn dude ! nice job! so many epidodes in a row, i really love your work and as fan of the half life series is really cool to see all the game played but in a comic/weird way :D
keep it up with everything, i'm looking forward too for the next civil protection episodes too!

he doesn't scares when he sees the gargantua because he has seen a three headed giant snake(i mean the episodes 18-19) :D

Just had a thought about the new intro, it would be cool if you could throw in one of the scientists random lines over the fly in to the screen, preferably a different one each episode either that or if you (or someone you could access) could do a decent impression toss in something small.

The only problem I could guess here is that the current intro is probably too short for that to work properly considering you probably don't want voice over the title.

Just an idea.

haahah man very good, your the best man comin out fast very very awsome

I was thinking that the echo in the audio was actually an effect you added since most of the places that freeman strolls through are normally empty and would probably echo anyway :P

AWESOME

why you didn't took the big revolver of the guard??

so damn funny i was expecting him to take the revolver or try to kill the damn giant alien dude

wow, another new episode? you're spoiling us!

Great episode. My only critism is that you didn't comment on the guard, fact that he was gone when you turned back around, would've made good material.

Keep up the goodwork though!!!

Hey Ross,

Amazing work putting this out so quickly after the last one! Be sure to leave yourself some time to relax between episodes too!
It's weird, when I right-click save as the wmv, I get a file with no sound, but when I click on it, load it in firefox and then use my download helper to get it off the webpage it seems to work fine...anyone else have this issue?

I have no issues with echo thing. Actually, the first time I heard it I thought it nicely fits in to the surroundings. Great episode, as always. Can't wait to see Freemans whacking people with magnum. Because you'll start using it the next time Freeman find it, right? That's how it was with shotgun, if I remember it right.

nice episode as always, it's great that despite the quickening of pace the episode quality is still top-notch, a little worried about the train tunnels though, hated that part, and bare tunnels do not give much source for comedy.

Wow, Ross. It's great to have the episodes out so quickly! I, like many, don't want to pressure you to keep the episodes released in such a short timespan, though. It's hard. You obviously have more important things to do. LIKE CIVIL PROTEC-*shot*

But really, I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Nice job, I just wonder how this will pan out in Half Life 2 if you ever make it there. Oh great, I just added more pressure.