Description
It's finally here, AUTUMN RAIN - a Call of Duty PC Montage.
This is a video I've been planning out for years, and been wanting to make since I made the switch to CoD PC back in late 2015. A huge thank you to everyone who helped put my dream video together. I am very proud of and happy with how the turned out, and I really hope you all enjoy and it lives up to your expectations.
Editors in order:
bz - https://x.com/adjbzz
nyz - https://x.com/nyzmichael
zelta - https://x.com/SoaRZelta
serv - https://x.com/5erve
harry (trailer) - https://x.com/Harrym8710
webbs (thumbnail) - https://x.com/drewwebbs
For those who care, I'd like to share some details on how this video came to be, starting with personal notes and then details for the montage enthusiasts.
On a personal note, this is easily the most important video I've uploaded. Of course there's been tages and other videos I've uploaded that I'm proud of, but this being my biggest montage to date is the one video I want to look back on and reminisce as the years pass by. This video is what I have to show to represent a near two decade hobby (lol). This video means a lot to me, I wanted to make the best possible video I could make and I hope it again lives up to your expectations.
For the montage nerds, details on clips/songs:
I started recording/prioritizing clips for Autumn Rain after Marshall and I released Beauty and Rage 2 in December of 2022. These clips date back to 2020, with a vast majority being hit from 2023 and onwards, and also hit on stream. Oldest clips that come to mind are Favela Barretts and Afghan Inter Thermal for context - apologies for the incorrect safe areas and missing xp bars, those were before Steam MW2/IW4x safe area fixes to my knowledge. Some of those older clips would've ended up in Beauty and Rage 2 but were cut for this. Speaking of Steam MW2, I was not hosting the lobbies nor using demo tools.
I put the whole video together as a rough draft before sending it to and getting all the editors on board. I placed all of the clips and roughly 95% of them are in their original place. This was my first time doing that so if you've got some constructive feedback, please let me know! Nyz and Zelta were able to switch around and replace clips for the better. For example, BO2 Hydro, District R7, Cold War Hijacked (reg 6v6 2023 iirc) weren't going to make it in, but Zelta did a great job with the placements. If you have questions on clips and or their placement, feel free to ask cause I'd love to share more details for those interested. I wanted to also keep as many clips under wraps as possible, some may have been seen in usual content videos (despite thinking I wouldn't use it in the tage) or teamtages from Besiege, xen, void, wherever you may have seen some clips. For future reference I may put CoD4 pc separate due to the standards differences but hoped it looks good enough to mix in with everything else multi cod wise. Same goes for WaW, may just keep those two to their own separate demo videos. WaW clips were hit well before the WaW pc clipflation started. (any runners? running.) The last clip hit was Airfield back in April, Nightfire was February. When Nightfire was achieved, I knew I could put this video together, that was the ultimate dream clip of mine.
I've always had a mindset of not trying to force one off clips because I've always thought if there was one clip on one game in a video, that one clip needs to be good enough to be the token clip. Maybe its an oversight, but I hope they're good enough nonetheless. Vast majority of clips were hit on clients as steam CoD is generally unsafe (please for the love of everything just download the clients and play), shoutout T7X/BOIII client my beloved (stop playing nukejacked 247 servers, you have the entirety of dlc for free via Steam BO3). I do think there is some valid criticism on score limits, going beyond the usual 75/100 tdm or 200 dom - I have my own gripes with servers on the clients feeling the need to extend score limits to unnecessary limits (and having custom UI on the hud like server watermarks), but unfortunately I do not control what the server owners do regarding that.
As far as music goes, I was only aware of Sacred using Coping Without A Cure in The Third Crusade - to which I dm'd the leads and got the okay to use the song way before the editing process even started. I was very dead set on using Secret Garden as I had that section planned in my head since Eternal Blue released. If any track had been used prior, I'm sorry but I did not know and hope it doesn't take away from your video.
With all that being said, I hope that answers some faqs.
Thank you all for taking the time to read this if you did, and I hope you all enjoy the Autumn Rain
Timestamps:
bz - Keep Planting Flowers: 00:00
nyz - Fall Like Rain: 01:33
zelta - Secret Garden: 04:29
serv - Coping Without A Cure: 06:52