Video Contest!

[jngy slate]

I just started recording game footage. I may take some of that and put it in some collaboration video.

[Divine Rides]

peep this

somebody get a refridgerator box and some paint and make a cockpit "set". throw a black sheet with white dots on it behind it and throw some story into this mother fucker. Make "Peeoo Peeooo" noises.

Lol forker

[Fork]

Fork,

your avatar is a picture of yourself.

what are you trying to accomplish here?

Well u would think so but ive uploaded some jd games of dice and Mad... im not on either vids. Also ive lost a baseelim game in one vid. What im tryin to achieve is interest to the game by adding videos on youtube. Of course im gonna have videos of me coz im recording myself play... but im gonna record other people play... and im gonna try and record twl games.

Heres dice vs mad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPtlTSJfHIU (part one)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HDg5a-3q8Y (Part Two)


im recording mostly Last standing so im not just trying to make myself look good, i wanna record the best players if possible so others can learn from there style.

[Ilya]

Fork,

your avatar is a picture of yourself.

what are you trying to accomplish here?

[Depre]

Just uploaded Round 2 Boss vs Sage twjd game where i play alright for once :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQpMO5RER8

hey dude what are your computer specs?... also what resolution is that? doesn't seem like highest res to me

[Fork]

Just uploaded Round 2 Boss vs Sage twjd game where i play alright for once :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQpMO5RER8

[Davey Jones]

Yes, its called CamStudio... you can just type it on google and download it for free.

Setting i use:
Click options, Video options:

Compressor: Microsoft Video 1
Quality: 55 (The higher the quality is- the ships move less smoothly)
(The lower the quality than 55- the walls trail obviously)

Set Key Frames every: 200 frames

Click Configure: Set TQR to 1.00

Framerates
Capture every: 5 Milliseconds
Playback rate: 200 frames/sec

I clicked Auto adjust
Set framerate to Max.

Click ok.


Click Region on main screen, set it to Full screen.

Beaware, when u are recording using this program, even if u click record from Audio speakers (and not record audio from microphone) it WILL record from ur microphone anyway! Some kind of fault, only way i got past this (if u dont want ur mic on but still want to record sound) is:

If u have windows vista... right click ur sound icon next to the time display at bottom right, click recording devices, disable:
Microphone Array
Microphone/ Line in.

Enable: Rec. playback. Click OK.

Remember when u right click and disable these microphones, Right click and select "show disabled devices."

thanks

[Fork]

is that program free?

Yes, its called CamStudio... you can just type it on google and download it for free.

Setting i use:
Click options, Video options:

Compressor: Microsoft Video 1
Quality: 55 (The higher the quality is- the ships move less smoothly)
(The lower the quality than 55- the walls trail obviously)

Set Key Frames every: 200 frames

Click Configure: Set TQR to 1.00

Framerates
Capture every: 5 Milliseconds
Playback rate: 200 frames/sec

I clicked Auto adjust
Set framerate to Max.

Click ok.


Click Region on main screen, set it to Full screen.

Beaware, when u are recording using this program, even if u click record from Audio speakers (and not record audio from microphone) it WILL record from ur microphone anyway! Some kind of fault, only way i got past this (if u dont want ur mic on but still want to record sound) is:

If u have windows vista... right click ur sound icon next to the time display at bottom right, click recording devices, disable:
Microphone Array
Microphone/ Line in.

Enable: Rec. playback. Click OK.

Remember when u right click and disable these microphones, Right click and select "show disabled devices."

[Davey Jones]

Just made quite a few vids on youtube... baseelim games, go twisted...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99QARMTYZe8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR-U9RSGA2k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYDDA9O6VDQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StoO2Xe9RfQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU0LpYAl3WU

Im gonna add JD games and hopefully twl games :P.

is that program free?

[Fork]

Just made quite a few vids on youtube... baseelim games, go twisted...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99QARMTYZe8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR-U9RSGA2k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYDDA9O6VDQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StoO2Xe9RfQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU0LpYAl3WU

Im gonna add JD games and hopefully twl games :P.

[Davey Jones]

Hey I know this thread is pretty much done since the contest is over and all. I was just wanting to know what the best software for recording while playing is. I've tried a few programs out, but they all seem to drastically kill the framerate and make it impossible to play.

I'd like to make a good vid showing gameplay, I was looking on youtube and only saw a few with decent looking gameplay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnQMBv9paE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3fdvEzqYkM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMN9R2ijv0

not saying the vids are particularly good, but the framerate seems decent. Any help would be appreciated!

[KayinNasaki]

The Trench Wars zone takes pride in the skill it takes to actually be competitive. Perhaps someone should record some strong players that usually do well in games and make a video compiling all the epic moments (elite dodging, rushing, sniping, etc). I know it would take a lot of time and dedication to do something like this since you'd have to be recording for a good hour or 2 to get enough decent moments that you can actually use in the final video, but who said making a good video advertising TW is easy to make. Don't bother wasting your time making a video if all you're showing is some blurry basing action or some sort of a teaser trailer or a comic clip showing nothing that's actually related to the game. Oh, and if anyone actually steps up to do this, make sure you set ss to a smaller resolution so people can actually see the spaceships and make sure the game is not skipping when running the screen recorder.

That is all.

Someone gets it!

Those videos aren't going to get anyone into TW. I've been playing this game on and off for the last 10 years (mostly off) and I hae never really 'gotten' into the community or anything. I think I have some perspective here.

First off, I don't think it's particularly hard to get people to try this game. Whenever someone watches me play, they almost always get interested enough to try the game out. Keeping players for more than a few sessions is harder. The community doesn't do much to help. Half the people in pub act like 15 year old right out of the 90s, no one is helpful and heck, you can get called a newb for doing things that you actually should (IE: People calling spiders newbs while they are basing in pubs). Not much can be done about that, but then there is also the problem of 'no good information anywhere'.

I decided to youtube the game like a week ago. I suspected there would be perhaps something like a Javalin guide, or examples of people owning in Elim or whatever. I just wanted some content to learn more about the game.

Of course I got nothing, but what I assume was jabjabjab's..... lack luster video. When I lamented the lack of information in pub, the only comments I got was 'lrn 2 aim' or 'omfg an 8 year old could jav right'. Yeah okay. A friend of mine wanted to learn how to Terr. The best I could offer him was to watch other terrs for awhile and then to be prepared to have everyone hate his guts while he learned the ropes.

I come from the fighting game community. If I'm curious about something, theres probably a guide for it. If I'm curious about how to play a character, I can youtube it and watch how a skilled player uses the character. I've gotten people into fighters just by showing them high level match videos that I thought were cool. There is none of this for TW.

Forget hype videos or joke Hitler videos, there just needs to be real, in game content. A video that is a basics guide for beginners, or various tutorials would help quite a bit I'd imagine. The best art, even the random clueless guy in Pub who TKs everyone all day on accident can learn something! From what I can gather, half the community doesn't even know how to play the game. It's terrible. I'm actually shocked theres no one in the community thats doing this already. It seems like a normal part of healthy communities for players to want to show off their skills in videos. I'd do this my self if I didn't suck balls at this game. I might just record my self playing it anyways, just so theirs some honest to god real gameplay videos of this game online.

This community still totally baffles me.

[Louis XV]

Does anyone have a copy of that old flash intro I had for the cripples site? It probably wouldn't be any good for promoting ss to people outside of it, but elements from it might be useful.

[Bioture]

hey children if you're reading this, can you put up a balloon in the vid that says "click here to visit www.trenchwars.org to play!" or something along those lines? That way people will at least know what the video is about from the beginning if they're not a part of the TW/continuum population...