This forum is for forum members to record their play, upload videos, and have others comment on them.
Uploading
There is an FTP account set up for this. To upload a video:
1) You need an FTP client (
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=21558)
2) Connect to ftp.mikethicke.com [Private msg Mike for account details]
3) Upload your file. The file names are case-sensitive and spaces or special characters will make life difficult. To be safe stick to lowercase letters and numbers.
4) Make a post in the forum directing people to your video. The url will be
http://www.mikethicke.com/videos/<yourfilenamehere>
Making
The most popular program is camtasia. I use SnagIt. They are pretty much the same but SnagIt is simpler.
http://www.techsmith.com/download/trials.asp
You should set it to record at 1-2 frames per second.
Video/Audio compression? (Will add later).
Try to do a running commentary as you go. It helps people watching to understand your thought process.
Keep videos somewhere under an hour - the files get really big and fewer people will watch all the way through if they are longer.
Makeing without codec madness
Producing a video in Camtasia:
1. Produce As...
-pick SWF - Macromedia Flash movie
2. Options
-Colors: 16-bit Color
-Frame Rate: 1
-Use JPEG compression: ~36%
-Encode audio
-mp3
-mono 16kbits/s
3. Hit next until done.
This will create 4 files in a directory when its done. Make sure you upload the directory itself when you post the video. This will create the same directory with the files in it.
Viewing
http://www.techsmith.com/download/codecs.asp
Comments / Corrections / Questions
Post in this thread. I'll update this post accordingly.
