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Yes I am on a montag-ing spree. This is my third montage. 10 minutes long, and I added all my best kills at the last 3 minutes. Some good hog-snipes too.

High quality: http://useruploads.mythica.org/view/LP_Kevins_Third_Montage_h igh_quality.wmv

Med quality: http://media.putfile.com/LP-Kevins-Third-Montage

Enjoy!

Please leave some comments, criticisms, and feedbacks. This is so far one of my best work, well at least I think so.

P.S. In the Rat Race scenes, the host added 200% shields, for reasons of I-don't know-wtf-he-was-smokin'. So don't think I'm a noob because I couldn't get that easy 3sk, it's hard to penetrate someone's skull when they have twice-as-powerful armor. xD

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  • 01.27.2007 4:07 PM PDT
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no shields, missed shots, boring shots, cheap editing, couldn't watch it all... mostly clips of you only killing one person too. I'm not tryin to make you feel like you should never make another montage, but i'm just trying to help. good luck next time!

<3

  • 01.27.2007 4:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: reidypea
no shields, missed shots, boring shots, cheap editing, couldn't watch it all... mostly clips of you only killing one person too. I'm not tryin to make you feel like you should never make another montage, but i'm just trying to help. good luck next time!

<3


I understand. But you should've stayed for the last 3 minutes of the vid, it had all sorts of no-scopes, a few good hog snipes, and multiple kills. I admit, the beginning was a bit boring.

  • 01.27.2007 4:38 PM PDT
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It was ok.

  • 01.27.2007 4:56 PM PDT
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Try to stick to your best

2 questions

-How are you making these things and

-What was the name of the first song on the montage.

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  • 01.27.2007 5:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: rocky5050
Try to stick to your best

2 questions

-How are you making these things and

-What was the name of the first song on the montage.


1) recording with Gamecam (Fraps will work as well), and editting with Windows Movie Maker (although Sony Vegas, and Adope Premiere are better editing softwares).

2) It's in credits. But I'll tell you anyways xD : Lying From You - Linkin Park

  • 01.27.2007 5:22 PM PDT
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Sorry, I didn't see it all the way through (got distracted half-way through)

Not to be even more annoying, where can I buy (unless free) gamecam, looks fun :-)

  • 01.27.2007 5:28 PM PDT
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Ah, no worries. It is long, I admit.

Gamecam (free version) is free at planetgamecam.com. You can always buy the official version of course, that records sound, and erases the watermark. The two best recorders out there are:

Fraps
Gamecam

But I suggest you get another Hardrive, so you can record. Trust me, recordings take a lot of space when they all add up.

  • 01.27.2007 5:32 PM PDT
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I know, try using window movie editor as a flash MX substitute and saving it in avi format.

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Posted by: rocky5050
I know, try using window movie editor as a flash MX substitute and saving it in avi format.


.avi files are HUGE. Sure they're good quality, but they are HUGE. xD

  • 01.27.2007 6:15 PM PDT
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Worse when you make movies ONE BITMAP IMAGE AT A TIME WITHOUT EDITING ABILITIES!!!

  • 01.27.2007 6:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: rocky5050
Worse when you make movies ONE BITMAP IMAGE AT A TIME WITHOUT EDITING ABILITIES!!!


Wait, are you talking about me? o.O 'Cause if you are, they're .wmv files, not .bitmap, and it's been a while since I've editted.

  • 01.27.2007 6:25 PM PDT
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No. I used to make cartoons one bmp image at a time and record them to movie files.

  • 01.27.2007 6:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: rocky5050
No. I used to make cartoons one bmp image at a time and record them to movie files.


Oh wow...xD

Well at least it's something. Cartoons, ey? Do you have it uploaded on putfile, youtube, or mythica? I love internet comics. xD

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  • 01.27.2007 6:31 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Smooth. Nice job Gen! I'm looking forward for more good videos!

  • 01.27.2007 7:08 PM PDT
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Nah. two reasons.

Poor animation.

Sound card was heavily flawed.

  • 01.27.2007 7:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: Beowul7
Smooth. Nice job Gen! I'm looking forward for more good videos!


Lol thanks. I'm looking forward to another one myself. xD

BTW, have you seen the stunts video with you, Kim, and t3heford in it?

  • 01.28.2007 11:11 AM PDT

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Yep your best one yet. A++ on the music, All three songs were great.

  • 01.28.2007 1:23 PM PDT
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I stopped watching that when you started spamming extra rounds after getting a single body shot. I hate that band too.

  • 01.28.2007 1:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: Iggwilv
Yep your best one yet. A++ on the music, All three songs were great.


Thanks Igg. =D It seems you and I have similar, if not the same, taste in music. xD

  • 01.29.2007 6:37 AM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

Not bad.

A few tips: you have good sniper patience...if you could carry that over to your pistoling you'd be a lot better. The rat race pistol stuff wasn't great, too much spraying. In fact, if you cut out the rat race segment altogether, you'd have a shorter, more focused montage. Overall though, you have some nice sniper kills in there.

  • 01.29.2007 2:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Frnksnbns
Not bad.

A few tips: you have good sniper patience...if you could carry that over to your pistoling you'd be a lot better. The rat race pistol stuff wasn't great, too much spraying. In fact, if you cut out the rat race segment altogether, you'd have a shorter, more focused montage. Overall though, you have some nice sniper kills in there.


True. But it's hard to pistol when you are recording, and the noobs in the map constantly uses flamethrowers and Assault Rifles against you. The flames and the tracers from the 7.62mm rounds kept decreasing my FPS by ALOT.

  • 01.30.2007 5:04 AM PDT
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Eh, a bit better, but it seems like your bringing up the same stuff over again. Not that its bad, but there is definetly alot of room for improvement. What I did to help me out to make better montages was to watch others that were well made.

Heres an example of one that was well made, Bstews Final. Good kills, great action, superb editing.

http://www.cn-starz.net/index.php?dir=Halo/Vids/&file=Bst EwsFinal_Hi.wmv

If you can learn to use Sony Vegas to edit, instead of Windows Movie Maker, that will definetly help alot. I admit, I have not even begun to see what Vegas can do, but by watching other final montages, you get a feel for what looks good.

Heres what I've learned so far about montage making..you can take my advice if you want, but this is what Ive learned from experience.


Do: Get double kills, preferably with a sniper, headshots, in a shielded server.
Do: Make nice scene transitions, but dont go overboard with them.
Do: Match footage...even if you arent in KW or HPT, if you do some scrims and do well, that kind of footage gets better reviews than footage taken from pub servers. If people see you beating other players that are known to be skilled, more power to you.
Do: Sticky nades. Not footage of spamming them, but the kind where you stick someone in one attempt.
Do: Flick shot sniper hits, or sniping out of a hog.


Dont: Noob kills....self explanatory. Exceptions are being you rocketing a moving hog from a fairly large distance and scoring a double kill.
Dont: Never get footage from no shields servers. Its easy to score kills on there with a random body shot from a sniper.


Also, if you are experiencing framerate lag when recording, lowering your graphics (and sometimes sound settings, especially if your sound card is onboard and not dedicated) settings helps. If you are blinded by the flames and the gun muzzle flashes, turning Particles to low helps. Don't turn them off completely, they are useful. If you REALLy want to squeeze as much framerate as possible out, try these settings.

Resolution: 640x480 (I personally run 800x600, even though I could easily go higher, I like having lots of FPS)
Refresh Rate: Up that as much as it will go, I use 85 Hz.
Framerate: No Vsync; always, always use No vsync.
Specular: Off; since your running the no scope blur config, I would turn specular off, since it makes for bad lighting and (to me anyways) isnt visually appealing.
Shadows: This ones up to you, but off = slightly more framerate
Decals: This one should be left off if you want more framerate, because the blood and thousands of bullet holes and nade marks can cut framerate. Besides, decals can be misleading to some since thats not where your bullets hit anyways (thanks Gearbox).
Texture quality: High
Gamma: This is a personal choice, but dont go overboard with too much gamma.

I don't know anything about GameCam, so I cant really help you there, but with FRAPS, recording at half size allows for more framerate. What I have my fraps settings on is half size at the 50 mark.

If you absolutely need some good servers to jump in to get some footage, the KNFr servers are a good bet. Usually very good players frequent them. There are 3 servers that they run, all Chicago based. The 8 man (208.100.16.6:2302), runs Free for all gametypes. The 10 man (208.100.29.136:2302) runs team gametypes, and same with the 12 man (208.100.16.5:2302)


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  • 01.30.2007 10:32 AM PDT
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The [XK] servers are also a very good resource.

  • 01.30.2007 12:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: staticx57
The [XK] servers are also a very good resource.
I love going to their servers.

  • 01.30.2007 12:25 PM PDT

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