Arma II & OA User Video Thread

[Günter Severloh]

Question for you guys that make these great cinematic type vids,
what program do you use to make a video, all i have is fraps. My problem i can only run my game on all low settings or any vid i record turns into a slide show.

Any tips?

[Litos]

I use fraps.
Recording is naturally problematic because it really cuts down your FPS. Either have a good rig, or get a dedicated capture card (which are like $200).

[Funkman]

You can set the time to half or even a quarter, record then speed it up. To do this put in a unit's init field

this setAccTime 0.5 (for half) or 0.25 (for quarter)

Only problem is then you have to speed up the sound to match and some sounds dont play at the lesser speed meaning things go out of synch. Good way to get smooth frames though.

[Günter Severloh]

thanks for your feedback,
what about editing existing vids maybe thats what I meant to ask, I mean I can record vids ok but what are good
programs to maintain the quality of what you recorded and also do other things?

heres the latest vids I have put together in the past few days:

Heres all the vids I recorded so far:

A2WarMod Infantry test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAta4CnH0nw

This is the A2WarMod RunNGun part 1 vid I was talking about that I had to split the whole vid into two parts,

A2WarMod RunNGun Fun Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDOsunyHIY

heres part 2 finally!
A2WarMod RunNGun Fun part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hx7IQaT5j0

Here is a vid i uploaded last night that I actually forgot to upload, lol I was so busy with the other vid:

A2WarMod Explosions Compilation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTVDhpBYcRk

as you can see the quality versus ingame changes alot once its edited which i use (windows movie maker), and then uploaded.

[SteveJA360]

Some scenes may need a bit of work, but there's still a lot of great shots in there. And the narrative proved very effective

1) In the opening scenes you seemed to struggle trying to get a good horizontal framing of the guy on the ground. Either you'd be showing a lot of boring ground, or the guy was barely visible somewhere in the bottom of the frame. Try not to force such shots if the subject clearly doesn't align well. After one or two horizontal establishing shots, you can safely take subsequent shots of the guy on the ground using a top down or angled perspective. If someone walks over to help him, briefly establish their proximity and then focus your framing on the kneeling dude. Don't try and continue to force the other guy into the picture, we know he's still there and you can always cut back to his top down shot.

2) Keep tabs on how long each shot is. Don't be afraid to use 3 shots instead of 1. A long shot (4+ seconds) determines the pacing of what you see in the scene ... not how much content you see in the scene. You had several shots of 10+ seconds in a row at times (e.g. rotating shot around wounded guy, stop, close-up, zoom out), mixed with some shorter ones, which disupted the sense of flow. It's great to use those long shots to open or close a scene, but when there's more stuff to be shown, use short and varying shots. Take a "chunk size" to base your cuts on (e.g. 2 seconds and multitudes thereof) for a sense of rhythm.

3) Match the direction of movement and position of your subject onscreen to tie one shot to the next. You're jumping from left-right to right-left and back a few times when trying to show events that are supposedly related. Positioning and moving them in a way that flows from the last shot makes it easier for my mind to see the continuity without having to stop and think about it. The last scene worked well in terms of camera movement. Having consistent shots from one side of the soldier would've made it perfect.

I loved the salute/uniform shot. A perfect example of 4 seconds saying more than any 20-second shot flying through bootcamp



_camera camCommand "inertia on"

Wow thats an Essay! Thankyou very much on the advice (i need it )

I surpose i better get making another one then!

Thanks for replys!!

[Funkman]

thanks for your feedback,
what about editing existing vids maybe thats what I meant to ask, I mean I can record vids ok but what are good
programs to maintain the quality of what you recorded and also do other things?

heres the latest vids I have put together in the past few days:

Heres all the vids I recorded so far:

A2WarMod Infantry test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAta4CnH0nw

This is the A2WarMod RunNGun part 1 vid I was talking about that I had to split the whole vid into two parts,

A2WarMod RunNGun Fun Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDOsunyHIY

heres part 2 finally!
A2WarMod RunNGun Fun part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hx7IQaT5j0

Here is a vid i uploaded last night that I actually forgot to upload, lol I was so busy with the other vid:

A2WarMod Explosions Compilation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTVDhpBYcRk

as you can see the quality versus ingame changes alot once its edited which i use (windows movie maker), and then uploaded.

Sony Vegas is a good editing program, I use the Platinum version.

[Günter Severloh]

I've read Sony Vegas been mentioned before, i will look into it thanks.

[Fatal_Papercut]

** WARNING ** Video contains adult language.

Just a bit of silly fun, trying to do tight insertions with a Colt aircraft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8iBwj6d0uI

[Kenwort]

Mission 2 Part 1


Mission 2 Part 2

[SpetS15]

I use fraps.
Recording is naturally problematic because it really cuts down your FPS. Either have a good rig, or get a dedicated capture card (which are like $200).

now that you mention a capture card, does it exist for PC gaming recording? all capture cards I check it out, was only for consoles. Can you list some of those cards, names, model? thx
anyway... $200? wow!