commentating.

[IJO sha-quan-jone]

I am going to start a channel on youtube of my gameplay with me commentating trying to get the game some more players and just for fun, but being an ignorant dude I don't know what software to get to take vids/commentate. any adea's (preferably free or cheap).

[ӺȁȿŧƔ]

Xfire or Fraps.

[SWINE FLU]

I can send you the full version of Fraps if you like.

[(SWGO)Kren]

Fraps is pretty good.

[MATTHEW'S_DAD]

I would love to see my self on YouTube. (playing well of course)

[IJO sha-quan-jone]

I can send you the full version of Fraps if you like.

that would be nice thanks, i know how to take vids on xfire but not how to commentate

[{JOG}Neji]

You need to set your output to your microphone while recording. Personally I think xfire is poopy for recording, but hey, better than nothing right?

Chop chop cheerio!

[SWINE FLU]

I can send you the full version of Fraps if you like.

that would be nice thanks, i know how to take vids on xfire but not how to commentate

You can record your game whilst speaking, so you get the live response. Or, you could record the footage and then put the commentary on later. That way, you can think about what you put.

Contact me on X-Fire (swineflu13) and I'll send you the Fraps file.

[Flyswamper]

You can also mix in some audio tracks from your favorite tunes if you have the mp3 files to do it with.

Some examples I've done in the past:


(video montage of me playing some Battlefield 2)


(this is one where I suicide after nearly every death just so that I can get a kill with a different weapon and rack up per-weapon stars and points. You'd have to play the game and know the scoring system to understand, but the idea is that I don't know anybody else thats ever had a 95,000 pt round in that game...so it was noteworthy)


Also, I uploaded the second video to Youtube but they forced the soundtrack to be overwritten with another soundtrack. Xfire made no such requirement, but it took a little more tweaking to edit the video and get it into the right format for xfire to upload it.

By the way....I recorded all that video footage with FRAPS, edited it and encoded it with Adobe Premiere Element, and then placed it back in the Xfire-uploads folder on my computer and had xfire upload and host it. You'd never get that quality and ability to mix audio just using built-in xfire recording. With FRAPS you can record at nearly any quality that you want. You just gotta tone it down some to keep the file sizes from getting crazy...so you make some sacrifices with quality...

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I am going to start a channel on youtube of my gameplay with me commentating trying to get the game some more players and just for fun, but being an ignorant dude I don't know what software to get to take vids/commentate. any adea's (preferably free or cheap).

You aren't going to get the game any more players. If STEAM can barely revitalize this game, some random [heffix] talking on his mic while he plays it isn't exactly going to help.