Your planetside 2 youtube movie plans.

Buggsy · 2012-07-23, 02:39 AM

*Suicide Rush*

Video of one player as infantry running in slow motion in a straight line, with planes falling out of the sky, bullets flying all over the place, explosions to the left and to the right, and straight ahead is a hack facility. But the player dies just before reaching it.

This is the music I'm gonna use in the back ground:

I just need the footage.

JoeDragon · 2012-07-23, 02:56 AM

I've got a few ideas but I'm worried my PC won't be able to handle recording with FRAPs. I bought an Nvidia 560ti back in December hoping to increase my FPS however I only get around 8 fps while recording Planetside 1 even.(MMO's like WoW record a bit better) Not really sure how to fix it. My CPU is an AMD Athlon II X2 245 2.9GHz and when I originally bought the PC 2 years ago it ran beautifully. Only have 4 gigs of RAM as well but I'm not sure if I should bother upgrading the RAM (don't know if it would increase my recording quality at all or if I need to save up for a new pc.

Anyways back to the original topic, I have plans for an entire Machinima style series but not sure if I have the capability of recording it. Need the client to see how well it handles.

Rivenshield · 2012-07-23, 03:15 AM

I want to take a squad of newbies out on go-live day and record the whole goddam thing, then take the most entertaining footage and splice it together with maps and short interviews recorded later and turn it into a docudrama.

It's weird.... I'm willing to play PS2 on the lowest possible settings rather than spend more dough, but I want to shoot this machinima badly enough to spend SERIOUS dough so I can FRAPS it all. The game will be there for years. Go Live will only happen once.

(How much space does FRAPS chew up per minute of footage on the default 30 fps? I've been utterly unable to find out.)

Coreldan · 2012-07-23, 03:25 AM

Well, my clan/community/outfit has been running a Youtube channel mostly about our gaming in APB, but we're planning to extend the youtube project to PS2 as well.

So varying kinds of footage from PS2, mostly... "concrete stuff", as in not really any kind of artistic slo-mo ideas or anything, mostly different kinds of gameplay as an outfit. Some tutorial kind of things probably too early on.

JoeDragon · 2012-07-23, 03:37 AM

Originally Posted by Rivenshield

I want to take a squad of newbies out on go-live day and record the whole goddam thing, then take the most entertaining footage and splice it together with maps and short interviews recorded later and turn it into a docudrama.

It's weird.... I'm willing to play PS2 on the lowest possible settings rather than spend more dough, but I want to shoot this machinima badly enough to spend SERIOUS dough so I can FRAPS it all. The game will be there for years. Go Live will only happen once.

(How much space does FRAPS chew up per minute of footage on the default 30 fps? I've been utterly unable to find out.)

30 minutes of footage takes around 100gb for me. I have a 1.5 TB external HD however most people say recording to an external is bad so I tend to record to my main 500GB HD and transfer it over. Unfortunately this limits me to around a half hour of footage interrupted by a long transfer time so I don't fill up my main HD.

Rivenshield · 2012-07-23, 03:45 AM

Originally Posted by JoeDragon

30 minutes of footage takes around 100gb for me. I have a 1.5 TB external HD however most people say recording to an external is bad

Hmmm. Thanks for the real-world metrics.

/mulls things over

Carnage · 2012-07-23, 03:47 AM

Originally Posted by Rivenshield

(How much space does FRAPS chew up per minute of footage on the default 30 fps? I've been utterly unable to find out.)

that really depends on what compression (if any) you chose, if I remember correctly a raw uncompressed recording at 720p is about 1 gig per minute...

I currently use Playclaw to record with relatively good results, but one of my mates who has a paid sub for all 3 main recording software's lives by a program called Dxtory and going by the free trial it seems really good, currently I only get about a 5-10 fps drop using it on borderlands, and apparently you can split recoding between multiple HDD's, I have not tried that yet but looks promising, as for fraps... death to fraps...

I plan to record all PS2 play I engage in.

Zulthus · 2012-07-23, 03:54 AM

Originally Posted by JoeDragon

30 minutes of footage takes around 100gb for me. I have a 1.5 TB external HD however most people say recording to an external is bad so I tend to record to my main 500GB HD and transfer it over. Unfortunately this limits me to around a half hour of footage interrupted by a long transfer time so I don't fill up my main HD.

Absolutely not, those people aren't too smart. Recording to your main drive makes your PC work harder and the game lag more because the HDD has to focus on both reading and writing to the hard drive; you get much better performance recording to the external because your main drive can focus on running the game.

As for me, I'll be recording game sessions here and there showcasing different styles of gameplay, nothing special. I don't tend to edit things.

Brusi · 2012-07-23, 03:55 AM

As soon as they release animal tails in the cash shop, i'm going to film, direct and produce a PS2 Furry fandom porno.

it will be called, PS2: Size Always Meowters

Rivenshield · 2012-07-23, 04:12 AM

Originally Posted by Brusi

PS2: Size Always Meowters

You're the guy who took all the damage/death voice emotes from PS1 for the female and male avatars and mixed them together so it sounded like they were screwing, aren't you?

Brusi · 2012-07-23, 04:30 AM

haha "INCOMING MAX UNIT!"

Duckforceone · 2012-07-23, 06:12 AM

Originally Posted by JoeDragon

I've got a few ideas but I'm worried my PC won't be able to handle recording with FRAPs. I bought an Nvidia 560ti back in December hoping to increase my FPS however I only get around 8 fps while recording Planetside 1 even.(MMO's like WoW record a bit better) Not really sure how to fix it. My CPU is an AMD Athlon II X2 245 2.9GHz and when I originally bought the PC 2 years ago it ran beautifully. Only have 4 gigs of RAM as well but I'm not sure if I should bother upgrading the RAM (don't know if it would increase my recording quality at all or if I need to save up for a new pc.

Anyways back to the original topic, I have plans for an entire Machinima style series but not sure if I have the capability of recording it. Need the client to see how well it handles.

you do know that you need a better cpu, and more ram would help too..
and if you can run game on one harddrive, windows on another, and record to a third it would help...

also, fraps require the best of machines and space... stuff like bandicam and the likes might work better for you. Or even record with xsplit...

Redshift · 2012-07-23, 06:15 AM

Originally Posted by Rivenshield

I want to take a squad of newbies out on go-live day and record the whole goddam thing, then take the most entertaining footage and splice it together with maps and short interviews recorded later and turn it into a docudrama.

It's weird.... I'm willing to play PS2 on the lowest possible settings rather than spend more dough, but I want to shoot this machinima badly enough to spend SERIOUS dough so I can FRAPS it all. The game will be there for years. Go Live will only happen once.

(How much space does FRAPS chew up per minute of footage on the default 30 fps? I've been utterly unable to find out.)

Fraps can record a loop and only save when you want to, i have mine running all the time on a 45 second loop, if anything cool happens you just hit the hotkey and save that section

Coreldan · 2012-07-23, 07:11 AM

You dont wanna use Fraps necessarily for that. Fraps is probably the most HDD space taking recording software, basically cos the video comes out as raw as it can and takes a crapton of space.

There are several other recording software that can reach the same youtube quality while taking like a fourth of the HDD space, like Bandicam. That said, I personally record using Fraps. I record half size and to an external USB HDD

Novice bot · 2012-07-23, 07:20 AM

Am I the only one thinking that these videos could end up being counter-productive, as at worst enemies can learn from them?