With the Ps4 and Xbox One hitting the markets with gusto it's
easy to lose sight of a few things that will have a profound impact on
the gaming community. What am I talking about? Montages, Frag Videos,
those awesome five minutes of watching skilled players rip apart the
gaming community with sick headshots and other kills to music that we
love.
Now I'm not saying every video that gets out there is
rockstar quality. In actual fact, there's a lot of failures out there.
But everyone needs a starting point, and the field is about to be
leveled... well in a few updates at least.
When montages first
started hitting YouTube they made jaws drop, eyes got crossed and made
gamers drool for days on end. But what was the main issue? Capture Cards
for the PC were like 200$, and external PVR devices were near double
that. Over the years prices have gone down. Hell if you go to Amazon
right now you could pick up a Used Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition
for around $110 (That includes shipping) where the new out of the box
ones at retail stores are between $130-200. That is if you can find a HD
PVR at the retail store that works with a PS3 or XboX 360, most stores
will direct you to the Bell/Rogers or whatever else cable company you
have in your area HD PVR having NO CLUE about what you're looking for.
With
the new systems, that won't be needed anymore. Sony and Microsoft have
both put the PVR ability into the console. Now, I won't say this is
flawless (Sony has already stated that the PVR ability needs a patch
that will be released at a later date to function. Xbox One is stating
"limited PVR capabilities" which basically means they don't want to
comment on what it lacks) but this is all technicalities to anyone who
sees the forest for the trees. Gamers are not slow indaviduals, you can
bet that there will be a work around of some sort, or something along
those lines to get you your desired result.
Now, I said back up
there that "there's a lot of failures out there." Well, that's mainly
because of a lack of knowledge. You can't simply chop your video, add
some music, and call it a day. Well... You could do that, but then
you'll end up wasting your time on a video that will barely blip on
YouTube... and we all know you want the world to see how awesome your
skills are.
What I recommend is watching a boat load of Montages.
Find the ones with the most views study it. Then, adfter your eyes and
ears have had so many joygasims you can barely contain yourself start
recording yourself.
Hey, Johnny Hotshot, 2 hours of recording is
not gonna cut it. I mean seriously, in 2 hours of gameplay you might
have three or four really awesome games where you can get a couple of
seconds of video. Yeah, I said it, a couple of seconds. You're going to
want a day or two of gameplay, just remember the maps you did awesome on
and skimming through the footage won't be a problem.
Awesome, you
got your clips, and your music, but what should you use to make the
video? For first timers... Windows Movie Maker... seriously, but don't
expect AMAZING results. This will get you familiar with what goes into
making a montage. "But Swoop, I want an Epic Montage!" well then, Sony
Vegas Pro is your answer. But that's NOT cheap, it could cost you
anywhere from $200-$600. A step down would be Corel's VideoStudio or
Sony Movie Studio (They tend to be around $50-$100 depending on which
one you buy) after you get that, spend some time learning it, go on
YouTube, find some tutorials, play around with it.
After all this is said and done, your montage is ready to go, the world will see how awesome you are!
I'm
giving you an example of one of my first videos I created. The quality
suffered, but that was because of the method I used to capture the game
clips. Some of you might remember that you could upload a clip from
Black Ops to YouTube, limited to about 30 seconds however. So, I did
just that, uploaded to YouTube, downloaded from YouTube. The quality
took a hit big time, but these were my first steps, and I'll admit I'm
still working on my skills editing, but you have to start somewhere
right?
So now it's all a question of when, and will you sit back
and simply watch the movies? Or will you be the start of one of your
own?
Swoopster out.
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