Hooray for Google, once again! I thought I’d have a go at recording a video and getting it put on YouTube. It didn’t take long for me to dislike it though – there’s far too much going on, it’s too cluttered, and there’s too much unneeded functionality. Also, despite being owned by Google, there wasn’t an easy way to just add it to my Google Account. Instead, I headed over to Google Video to get an idea of the difference. It’s a bajillion times better – no clutter, easy as pie to use, and generally very slick. Highly recommended by me.
So, once I got to the “choose a video to upload” stage, I set about recording a video. I tried a variety of screen capture programs, but most produced horribly choppy video, presumably because they’re intended for relatively static desktops and so on, whereas I was recording a game in which every pixel was changing every frame. I ended up downloading Fraps (a brilliant piece of software, despite the odd interface), which unfortunately dumps out huge AVI files, so I went looking for something to edit and compress my videos. Again, I went through several pieces of software (one of which NOD32 informs me is a virus), and ended up using VirtualDub. It’s a little rough around the edges but it does exactly what I want it to do, and it does it well. Well, once you know what you’re doing – my first attempt compressed 150MB of video into 250MB, oddly.
Anyway, long story remaining long, I got the video uploaded and it’s now sitting happily on Google’s servers, ready for you all to watch. In fact, I’ve embedded it in this very blog post so you don’t even have to go anywhere. Happy days! It’s not a very exciting one, mostly just to show you all that I’m not just faking the screenshots or anything silly like that.
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You should have asked me: I would have told you to use FRAPS and VirtualDub
It looks amazing – yay! Is your physics engine handling everything or are you having to do some of the motion stuff yourself?