Magnum MGG Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Hello fellow gamers, As a webmaster of my own gaming group, I'm kinda tired of putting up new screenshots every day, they just don't seem to express the real action. My question for you, my fellow gamers, anyone know how or what program is good for recording game footage, and converting it to a .mov file for uploading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNoobie Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 i would like to know as well. bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Weiss Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Video cam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zukkov Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 yes i too would love to do that! what better way to sell more games than by showing the game in action! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karch Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 It's very easy to to with a Mac. I don't know about Windows versions, but the screen movies should look identical. The best program I know of is Snapz Pro by Ambrosia software. Go to http://www.versiontracker.com and to a search on snapz and you'll find it. It records movies with sound really well and will allow you to save them out different sizes and you can specify your own audio and video codecs. As for people using them. People seem to have enough problems finding a way to host 100k screenshots for free. I just don't see any cheap way for people to be posting 3-100MB movie files on the cheap. Sure many of us have ADSL, but with UL speeds usually in the 384Kb range. That's only about a 30k/sec max serving speed. Have 5-20 users DLing you movie and you'll have some pretty bad transfer rates. I think the main reason you don't see them more is the bandwidth requirements for serving them up, not making them. I know I've seen a number of Mac users posting movies in the past, all made with SnapzPro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Galanti Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Are you a Mac user (I ask, since you specified .mov instead of .avi, which is more common on the windows side)? If you are, try Snapz Pro from Ambrosia Software. It can record action on the screen straight to Quicktime movies. I have no idea how beefy of a machine you would need to get a good frame rate, however. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinkins Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Its too bad the program does not say all the info needed to replay the turn(s) or entire battle from withiin the game. Is there a technical reason why this feature cant be developed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Originally posted by Kevin Kinscherff: Is there a technical reason why this feature cant be developed?Yes. Been explained by BTS many times. It was hoped to be done for CMBB, but was not something they could make happen at this time. Look for it when the engine gets re-written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Soze 71 Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 Would it be a too huge job to create some kind of "Battle Viewer"-program, where you load all the turn-files in to it and it displays the battle as a movie. I would even pay for a program like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 Would it be a too huge job to create some kind of "Battle Viewer"-program, where you load all the turn-files in to it and it displays the battle as a movie. I would even pay for a program like that... That would be very very very kool. :cool: And i too would pay for something like that. Imagine being able to watch your battles like a movie. Of course having the play,pause,stop,forward, and rewind functions there would be important. Interesting.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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