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HD Videos From Foxbat to Lemuria

Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
edited September 2009 in Introductions
This is a batch of videos I have been recording since I started playing during the headstart event covering a wide range of things. I just got finished processing and uploading them this evening and was not sure exactly which sub-forum to post them in, but this seemed to be the most accurate one.

Unless otherwise specified none of these videos will have UI elements present.
A few posts down I have detailed exactly how to encode videos and upload them to youtube in this quality.

Comedic Videos
Scenic Videos
Villains and Dungeons
Duels
Cut Scenes
Quests
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Nice videos. The game looks beautiful on your computer.

    Thanks for posting!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    wow. very nice work.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    So I am famous now right?

    -Toad
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Among the many toads around the pond, you are the most visible now. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Nice collection of videos :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Have added more videos, and will be shortly putting up a 36 minute run through of the Necrull 5 Man dungeon with three people. It is encoding right now down from 68Gb to who knows what size.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Okay. Sleep time for me.

    The burial grounds 5 man dungeon videos are uploaded, as are quite a few other new ones.

    It will most likley take a hour or two for youtube to fully process them and have them viewable in HD, around 1.2gb of video data.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Moar Toad!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Fantastic work and excellent quality. Now just NEED more PvP!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Hey everyone. I have been getting a decent number of questions about how I get these encoded and maintain the quality on youtube so I am going to go ahead and post a tutorial here on exactly how I do it.

    Required Programs
    1. Fraps - Used for capturing the videos
    2. ffdshow - Completely Free Opensoruce Encoder/Decoder. Used to Encode the video.
    3. Virtualdub - Completely Free Opensource Video Editing Utility. Used to merge files and actually save the videos.

    I run the game at 1920x1080 on a 52" LN52A750 TV so when I resize the videos they already go to the correct aspect ratio of 1280x720. Many people run at the computer resolution of 1920x1200 and will be required to crop the video as well to get it to the youtube HD size of 1280x720. I will give directions on how to crop as well, so only follow that step if you need to actually do it. :D
    1. Open the first video file on Virtualdub.
    2. Click File->Append AVI Segment->Select Additional Parts of the Video. Add each part of the video this way. Fraps splits video files into individual 3.9Gb files due to a FAT32 restriction. Long clips will be multiple files. Appending adds the selected clip to the end of your current timeline.
    3. Click Video->Filters->Add->Resize
    4. Select Absolute (Pixels) and set the first number to 1280, and leave the second number alone. If it is already 720, you are done. If not, follow the cropping steps.
    5. Add->Null Transform.
    6. Select Null Transform and click Cropping. Just drag the top or bottom of the video to wherever you want it until the resolution is 1280x720 and click ok, then ok.
    7. Click Video->Compression->ffdshow->Configure
    8. Select H263+ for the encoder and set the bitrate to 5000kbps, then click ok and ok.
    9. Click File->Save as AVI and name the file and save it.
    10. You are done. Upload the file to youtube, and it will take anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour for the video to be fully processed and viewable in HD quality.

    When everything is done you should end up with a 720p 1280x720 video clip that is encoded at 5Mbps. It will average out to around 45Mb a minute in filesize. For youtube HD to work properly it must be that resolution not higher or lower. There are other alternatives to do all of this, but this method is the method I use and have for a significant period of time. Virtualdub is extremely powerful, flexible, and easy to use for things such as this. Youtube from my personal tests process H263+ videos and has them ready to go significantly quicker than other codecs such as xvid, or divx, or standard mp4.

    The video below is an actual tutorial I just recorded that shows all of these steps for those who have any issues. :) The tutorial also shows how to delete sections of a video, for those who want to know.
    Video Tutorial Processing until 9:10PM PST.
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