Comments on: Beginners Guide to Recording Game Videos and Showing Them on Your Website

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:50:20 +0000

Found a link: how to make WoW movies - check out the comments. Some pretty good ideas for editing/recording there.

By: DnDCorner

DnDCorner — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:54:31 +0000

Thanks for posting this information. This will definitely be useful. I’ve been a little uncertain about using video on my site, and this will definitely cover the basics to get me started.

By: Frantic-Sheep

Frantic-Sheep — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:42:08 +0000

I would also recommend making them into flash video files if you want to put them up your website.

1) Easy viewable + streaming
2) Very very very good compression (in my oppinion.. I went from 40mb files to 4mb)

Requirs little Flash knowledge with a simple tutorial.

By: Peter Saumur

Peter Saumur — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:28:59 +0000

A company called Black Magic make a line of capture cards (around 130 pounds) that capture full HDMI (I used the Intensity). I captured a bunch of cut-scene footage from my recent XBOX 360 game for my demo reel. My machine wasn’t fast enough to do full uncompressed video (you need a RAID array to do it justice) but the built-in compression is actually good enough to capture audio and video; although you will need to tweak the audio offset to match the capture footage later.

For the post editing, I used the already-mentioned Virtual Dub. It’s a great tool to work with for post processing.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:25:27 +0000

Videos are a great way of promoting your game. I just made a new one for T.W.T.P.B.

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This is the process and programs I follow:

1. Record game play with music turned off using fraps

2. Edit and compose in Windows Movie Maker

3. Convert from wmv to flashmovie using ffmpeg (free commandline tool that can handle most conversions)

4. Publish on webpage using JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER (free for non commercial use)

Thats about it. Making the current vid took about 3h and is time well spent.

By: Toni Mäkinen

Toni Mäkinen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:57:42 +0000

VirtualDub is also good for small video editing. Free as in Open Source.

By: Stoper

Stoper — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:28:05 +0000

VirtuaDub is a nice and powerful AVI converter, and its free. Its not so user friendly, but converting files can be done quite easily:
1. File->Open file
2a. Video->Compression…
2b. chose encoder from the list of installed codecs
3. File->Save as AVI :)

You can also use filters for cropping (by adding Null transform, and then “Cropping…”) and others.