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Guide to Making Your Own EQ2 Vids 5 Months ago Karma: 0  
For those that want to give it a go here's a guide to making quick vids.

STEP 1 - Recording Video

1 - Download and install a video capture program such as FRAPS and have it running in the background, then open EQ2

2 - Adjust your quality as high as poss (highest if solo, high if group, medium if raid)

3 - If capturing video in raid make sure they know that you can not cast (or see health of raid) while you are focusing on capturing video

4 - Change to first person view (zoom all the way in on mouse scroll button) and hit the F10 key twice to hide all of your UI stuff

5 - Hit the FRAPS record key to start or stop recording

6 - Capture as much video as you can


STEP 2 - Editing Video and Adding Music

1 - Exit out of FRAPS and EQ2 and go to the folder you stored video clips in

2 - Have a quick look through clips and delete any garbage ones, any that have good content rename with a rough title such as 'Scenery' 'Characters' 'Dragon Fight' etc so you easily figure out what's in it

3 - Trawl through your MP3s and CDs to find music that you want to match to part or all of your video

4 - Grab any pics or screenshots that you want as background for your intro or credits screens and edit them in MS Paint (or similar program) to add whatever text you want

5 - Open Windows Movie Maker (or other video editing software)

6 - Import all video clips, music and pics that you want to use into Windows Movie Maker (this will take a while)

7 - Create subfolders in your project and name them accordingly (eg. intro, fight, funny, etc) and drag the video clips into each folder

8 - Click on each video clip and trim each to cut any any bits you don't want. Do the same for your music

9 - Drag your pic for intro screen down into timeline window, then add each video clip in the order you want, then add your pic for the credits screen

10 - Drag 1 music track at a time down to the timeline window and trim it to cut off where you want - repeat for any other music tracks you want added

11 - Play from the timeline and edit any bits that you need to

12 - If you want then add effects to video clips or between clips

13 - Click on Create Video and save to your hard drive (will take a while to compress)


STEP 3 - Testing and Uploading

14 - Play new vid from your hard drive to make sure it looks and sounds okay and check that it is less than 100 MB in size

15 - Go to YouTube and upload your video - the larger the file the longer it will take - as a rough guide a 30 MB file takes about 10-15 minutes to upload

16 - Play back the YouTube version to check it uploaded okay

17 - Copy weblink and paste it in the Sabaki Forums


NOTES

You need a decent amount of space on your hard drive before you start capturing video. About an hour of video clips will take up around 60 GB.

The process from editing through to uploading the video takes a fair while. For a final version video that runs for about 5 minutes it typically takes you about 6-7 hours to make. If you want really high quality with special effects through Adobe or ULead then you can change that to 15-20 hours.

Its easiest to make a vid if you become 'inspired' by a zone or scene that you've managed to capture - it gives you a starting point to focus on and helps give you the motivation to throw the video together

Good luck - and have fun making vids

 
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Re:Guide to Making Your Own EQ2 Vids 4 Months, 4 Weeks ago Karma: 3  
hi, u can as well use 'WeGame'
here more info on other post
 
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Re:Guide to Making Your Own EQ2 Vids 4 Months, 3 Weeks ago Karma: 0  
I tried Wegame but found it was more resource hungry for my system to run than FRAPS.

That said - the full version of FRAPS you have to pay for, whereas Wegame is free.

Because I use FRAPS a fair bit I've found it worth buying, but Wegame does the job if you don't want to fork out the cash
 
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