MindCandy Volume 3 Is Now Available
Posted by Trixter on November 22, 2011
After 4 years of hard work and many setbacks, I’m very pleased to announce that MindCandy Volume 3 is finally available.
The official launch date is December 6th, however the first shipments will be going out to people who pre-ordered as early as Friday of this week. You can order directly from us, from a reseller in your hemisphere, or from Amazon.
I’d like to thank the entire MindCandy crew past and present for getting “that demodvd project” to this point. From capturing some clips of a Capacala demo in 1996, to a professional Blu-ray in 2011 with over 3.5 hours of demos and 7 hours of extras, it’s been a long great ride.
And special thanks to my family, for putting up with me and my hobby :-)
Oldskooler Ramblings 
maz said
Congrats Jim, MC3 looks and feels great!
Nuskool said
Excellent news… already pre-ordered with Maz :)
Visa-Valtteri "visy" Pimiä said
Will you make the raw video files available for download, encoded with x264 for example?
Trixter said
Not for the forseeable future, no. Where you thinking this project was provided under a Creative Commons license? Besides, the Blu-ray is 46 GiB (50 GB), it’s not exactly practical to upload/download. And the raw video and project files are nearly 3 terabytes.
If you can’t play the Blu-ray and don’t have a system capable of running demos, check out the Watch Online section at the MindCandy 3 website; it lists several places where you can watch demos online for free.
Visa-Valtteri "visy" Pimiä said
Fair enough. What I was thinking was that you should at least make the exclusive new captures available as encodes, such as the hi-res version of Heaven 7.
Trixter said
Ah, you’d have to take that up with the authors if they want those versions released. The hi-res Heaven 7 already has, though, you can grab it here: ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/havoc/h7-holiday.zip
Visa-Valtteri "visy" Pimiä said
Excellent. Thanks.
[maven] said
Excellent job on the Blu-Ray; in spite of years of training in recognizing compression artifacts, Mind Candy 3 looks as crystal-clear as can be. Thanks!
Trixter said
And yet, if you look closely at the high-bitrate sections while the video is paused, you can see some. There are places where I hit the limit of 40mbps for the video stream. Most of the demo Vokawardoai, for example. But since it’s a noisy demo that’s always in motion, you’d be hard to see them during normal viewing.
Thanks for the kind words — as a wavelet coder to a fellow compressionist (I’ve been working with digital video since 1994), it means a lot, thanks.
Tomer Gabel said
Awesome! Ordered and waiting with bated breath :-)
Gerry said
I just received my copy of MC3 yesterday :-). I’ll take time on the next weekend to enjoy the results of your hard work.
Thanks for bringing the MC3 project to a successful end.
Stefan Kastenmüller said
Thanks a lot for this great MC3 DVD!!
I like it so much!!
There is much Power include!!!
kasti