Posts tagged machinima
Machinima.com Exclusive: Extended “Halo: Reach” Live Action Trailer.
Our buddies at Machinima.com hit the jackpot here. Getting to show, exclusively, the new Full version of the Live action trailer.
Kudos mates. This will help our endeavor to make epic Halo: Reach machinima. Get ready. We are.
Saber~Cow: Daily Posts Update
From now on I plan to post something daily. In laymen’s terms: everyday there will be a new post. Get it? Good.
Now Some of you may see this post as cheating. So I will fix this by adding some info on what we’re up to here at Saber~Cow.
We are finally completely settled in our new office. (Office meaning dorm room). All the tech works and is ready for movie making.
We’ve finished the first draft of all the of scripts for our “Halo: Reach” series. (Title will be unveiled at the end of September)
We bought a second microphone for better voice acting sessions.
We also have plans for 1 or 2 more Halo: Reach series and we are brainstorming other ideas. (These series will be completed).
Clan~Wars Season 2 wont happen for a while. If it ever does. It become mostly a practice series. Getting used to recording, voicing, editing, etc.
That’s about it. See ya’ll tomorrow.
Mac Screen Recording: Screenflow
I’ve received many questions all revolving around the same missing piece of knowledge on the internet:
How do you record a game on a mac?!?!??!!11?
Well, back a couple years ago we were trying to discover the answer to this very question. The way Smooth Few Films did it was they had their PC output an HD video signal to a Mac with an HD Kona Capture Card. This method was too complicated and too expensive for us. So we browsed the world of Screencasting software.
For those of you that do not know, a screencast is a play on words. It’s a Podcast that shows you how to do something on a computer using footage directly from the screen.
We have compiled a loverly list of Screencast software in the world that we have tested in our search:
iShowu (Original and HD PRO), Fraps, Screenflow, ScreenMimic, SnapsProX, and Quicktime X.
We couldn’t use Fraps because it was windows only but we did try it on a windows computer and It had the best FPS (Frames per Second) of any of these options but was, again, Windows only.
iShowu is what we used early on but it tended to be laggy and stupid to use.
All the others (except screenflow) were also laggy and stupid to use.
So we settled on Screenflow, which was a surprisingly good program. Granted, I wish to death that it would let you select a specific area on your screen and had functions to ignore all other computer processes besides the OpenGL window of the game we want to record but all in all it’s the best. It also has a Built-in video editor that looks and behaves much like the program Motion found in Final Cut Studio Pro.
Here’s a link: Screenflow
Happy Recording.
