The official Game video thread.

MoNkEyMiKeY · 19 Jan 2007 at 14:31

****The official Gameplay/Machinima video thread.****

Ok lets try and make a video thread for games. Anything interesting you've found in a game. Maybe different routes to take or amusing events whlist playing . Even maybe a great round of CSS you had. Im sorry I don't currently have any myself but I'll add one as soon as I can. This is also a good place to add any Machinima you may have made or maybe you've seen one thats funny that not many people have seen.

Rules:

1. Name of game must be posted.
2. File size must be posted.
3. A brief discription of events so people can choose whether to download.
4. No swearing.
5. No scoreboards

Suggestions:-

Capture:

1. Fraps

Uploading:

1. eggdisk
2. Youtube
3. video.google.co.uk
4. Stage6

Converting from AVI to other file systems:

1. Windows movie maker.

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Example:

Game: Flatout 2
Discription: A quick replay of me in derby mode for test purposes.
Filesize: 8.33mb
Filetype: WMA

Flatout 2

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Heres some advice from platypus

Steps I take to record a video:

* Record everything using fraps
* Stick it together in Vegas Video
* Make titles in Macromedia Flash
* Apply Special Effects in either VV or Adobe After Effects
* Convert Soundtrack to medium quality wav to reduce overall file size
* Export video full frames uncompressed
* Compress video using VirtualDub to Xvid/join with Compressed soundtrack
* Run AviSynth scripts to post process the video: clean up dirt/pixellation and improve quality.

mrk · 19 Jan 2007 at 14:45

I'll post my first game of bf2142 soon, my first disaster!

titaniumx3 · 19 Jan 2007 at 15:29

I wonder, whats the best way to post videos? Do you need screenshots before positing? What about youtube?

mrk · 19 Jan 2007 at 15:30

titaniumx3 said:
I wonder, whats the best way to post videos? Do you need screenshots before positing?

Just record your video using fraps and also take a screeny during the record process and resize the screeny to something like 640 wide and link to the video through the screenies thumbnail

MoNkEyMiKeY · 19 Jan 2007 at 15:38

Try video.google.co.uk for hosting.

nin9abadga · 19 Jan 2007 at 15:38

can i suggest some sort of brief synopsis too? so we can judge if it's worth watching or not and if we like the look of it we can perhaps buy the game (for example). will save all the "what's the game?" questions?

nin9a

mosehn · 19 Jan 2007 at 16:09

dosent fraps make it lag when your playing and recording

mrk · 19 Jan 2007 at 16:10

Depends on your pc I guess

MoNkEyMiKeY · 19 Jan 2007 at 16:23

Ive added some rules. Can anyone think of any others. Also if anyone knows of good software to use for encoding or sites for uploading. Or if theres anything other then fraps for recording (something free maybe

). Please let me know and I'll add that info to the first post also.

mosehn · 19 Jan 2007 at 16:29

id say use a tvcard or if you have tvout on your gfx use that

Supercow · 19 Jan 2007 at 16:52

mosehn said:
id say use a tvcard or if you have tvout on your gfx use that

To record....?
If so, no

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
Try video.google.co.uk for hosting.

The quality on http://stage6.divx.com/ is muuuuuuch better than rubbish googlevideo, or youtube.. combined

platypus · 19 Jan 2007 at 16:58

Excellent idea Mikey, I'll up some wow videos I've made in a minute

platypus · 19 Jan 2007 at 17:03

For those non-believers the following are all Wow videos!

BC & TS vs C'Thun (POV Maccgyver)
Description: An almost flawless kill of still the hardest (harder then Kel'thuzad imo) boss in World of Warcraft, server first.
Author: Maccgyver
Guild: Blood Cult & Tainted Souls
Length: 12:15
Size: 92MB
Codec: Xvid 4.0/Wav
Download link: http://files.filefront.com/bcts_cthunavi/;6184911;;/fileinfo.html

TS vs Anub'rekhan
Description: An "arty" video of a kill of Tainted Souls killing a Naxxramas boss.
Author: Maccgyver
Guild: Tainted Souls
Length: 2:09
Size: 18MB
Codec: Xvid 4.0/Wav
Download link: http://files.filefront.com/ts_anubrekhanavi/;5490026;;/fileinfo.html

Mossy - Thunderfury
Description: Mossy gets the Legendary weapon, Thunderfury from the outdoor raid boss, Thunderaar.
Author: Maccgyer
Guild: Various
Length: 3:51
Size: 32MB
Codec: Xvid 4.0/Wav
Download link: http://files.filefront.com/Mossy_Thunderfuryavi/;5496879;;/fileinfo.html

TS vs Cairne Bloodhoof
Description: Tainted Souls kill one of their own faction leaders using a since fixed bug which allowed you to attack your own NPCs (monkey island music!).
Author: Maccgyver
Guild: Tainted Souls
Length: 7:31
Size: 66MB
Codec: Xvid 4.0/Wav
Download link: http://files.filefront.com/tsvscairnebloodhoofavi/;5145105;;/fileinfo.html

Maccgyver vs Bots
Description: Bots, bots, everywhere. Me killing some, a long time ago.
Author: Maccgyver
Length: 5:38
Size: 36MB
Codec: Xvid 4.0/Wav
Download link: http://files.filefront.com/macvsbotsavi/;6003587;;/fileinfo.html

tBC videos coming soon!

If youre wondering why my char is called Maccgyver, its because Blizzard have an over-sensitive copyright filter on name creation!

Supercow · 19 Jan 2007 at 17:22

Good place for encoding stuff and codecs etc, is http://www.doom9.net/ , doesn't obviously only apply to DVD's.

MoNkEyMiKeY · 19 Jan 2007 at 17:29

Whats the best free software to convert avi to divx?

A good start there from platypus

Steve09 · 19 Jan 2007 at 18:02

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
Whats the best free software to convert avi to divx?

A good start there from platypus

XviD MPEG 4 codec.
Its not software, but when you code it using this codec, its so good.
400mb down to 10mb for example with same quality and sound.

http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

MoNkEyMiKeY · 19 Jan 2007 at 18:28

How come my divx converter doesnt like my fraps avi files. Its always shows an error when I try to convert them.

mrk · 19 Jan 2007 at 19:42

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
How come my divx converter doesnt like my fraps avi files. Its always shows an error when I try to convert them.

fraps uses its own codec to encode the files to avi, I found only winavi does convert them without any issues and also windows moviemaker 2 which is free! (my last video was done with windows movie maker 2 btw)

9mins @ 30~mb at good quality is very nice.

HangTime · 19 Jan 2007 at 20:06

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
Rules:

1. Name of game must be posted.
2. File size must be posted.
3. A brief discription of events so people can choose whether to download.
4. No swearing.
5. No scoreboards ]

1) Quakeworld
2) 298meg (worth it for anyone who's played Quake before)
3) A mix of frags, tricks and funny stuff from dozens of players. Starts off with cockups (teamkills, suicides etc) and then moves on to the proper action - stick with it

4) Sure thing.
5) If there is, I'm not in them

http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyondergames/movies/quakeworld/qwre-hq.zip

If anyone likes it, there's a whole host of others on that server - and also medium/lower quality versions for people worried about the filesize.

platypus · 19 Jan 2007 at 20:36

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
Whats the best free software to convert avi to divx?

A good start there from platypus

Steps I take to record a video:

Recod everything using fraps
Stick it together in Vegas Video
Make titles in Macromedia Flash
Apply Special Effects in either VV or Adobe After Effects
Convert Soundtrack to medium quality wav to reduce overall file size
Export video full frames uncompressed
Compress video using VirtualDub to Xvid/join with Compressed soundtrack
Run AviSynth scripts to post process the video: clean up dirt/pixellation and improve quality.

And thats it

Virtualdub is awesome for compressing.