Bizzlesnaff’s Clip Contest
Click the Image above for a video trailer explaining the contest!
My associate and confidant, Mr. Bizzlesnaff (see Eviscerate X, Six Silent Shadows, Unmercey 6, Who Is Champ Jones for examples of his editing work) wants your PvP clips. Have a clip you like but don’t know how to edit? Want to get a PvP clip out there?
Initial Deadline: March 26th.Goal – To create (eventually) 1 video per week – starting with one video every 2 weeks – created entirely using user submitted clips.
It’s time to put the “world” back in PvP.
The only rules for submission is that:
Clips – Must PvP oriented!
Duels, WorldPVP(lol), Bg’s, Arenas, set fights – anything is fair game. From level 1-80, it makes no difference. A good clip, is a good clip.
For uploading I’d recommend filefront, or rapidshare – if you have any further questions or concerns regarding recording or anything please don’t hesitate to contact me (or send a link to your video…) at : Bizzlesnaff@gmail.com
Thanks in advance, and good luck! -Bsnaff
So, if you’re looking to get a clip out there for people to see, don’t be shy. Submit! In the end, it’s all for fun! Just send your clip or a link to it to bizzlesnaff@gmail.com
Here is a link to a torrent of FRAPS, which you can use to record in game footage.
How I Make Videos
A topic I look at sometimes here is PvP videos. It’s something I know a lot about, although people often discredit them they have had an impact on things. Like a lot of concepts surrounding the game, they’ve changed and developed over time. This article, I’m going to take a closer look. First, I’ll talk about my general process for making videos. After a while, I’ve found that I have some routines for production. In a article coming soon, I’ll be listing some of my favourite vids, spanning from vanilla WoW to WOTLK.
My Process for Making a PvP Video
Before I start, let me say that there’s no “correct” way to make a video. It’s a creative process like any other, so just like there’s no correct way to draw a picture, there’s no correct way to do this either. The kind of video you may make really depends what you want to do. Do you want to simply show PvP, do you want to add lots of editing and effects? Are you trying to teach people something, are you trying to show something specific? Do you want to sync the music, do you want to incorporate machinima, do you care about intros and outros and cutscenes, or are you making a bread and butter pvp video? I can’t answer those questions for others, but the following is what I normally do when I decide to record and produce a PvP video. Hopefully it can be of some help to some people, I’m posting this because it’s something I get a lot of questions about.
Before you Start:
- you need something to record in game. My suggestion is fraps, which you can find on any torrent site. If fraps lags you, change it’s options to half size, also try changing the fps in fraps to 60. Another tip is in WoW options, to NOT play in window mode, or window mode maximized.
- you need a video editing program. I use sony vegas, adobe after effects is another good option. Both of these programs can be torrented fairly easily. There are thousands of editing tutorials for beginers on youtube / google, and it’s how I learned the basics.
My Process
Step I:
The first step, obviously, is getting the content. This means recording raw, in game footage. For me it’s pretty simple. The more you record, the better your video will be. That’s not to say the play-style will be very different if you record more, but personally I look for interesting clips against skilled players (interesting meaning a close arena game/duel, something where someone got to show skill in one way or another) and these clips may or may not come quickly.
For an arena video for example, I’ll probably record on and off for a few months. To avoid confusion and stay relevant, I try to record within the same content patch period, so for example recording for a 3.3 video will take place and be released in 3.3. I also try to record arena content from the same season for similar reasons. After every few nights of recording, I’ll find some time to go through the clips, organize them into what I might use and delete what I won’t. By the time I’m done I’ll probably end up with dozens of clips, so it’s important to stay organized.
my fraps folder after recording an arena session
Step II:
The second step for me is picking music I will use. This is important because I try to sync the music with the video itself, and sync it with the editing. I find it makes a big difference if you sync the focal point of a clip with a focal point in the music. This is something I may change later when I get more clips or to make things fit better.
Step III:
The third step is starting to put clips generally on a timeline with the music. Once they are roughly in place, I can start editing.
Step IV:
The fourth step I take is to add in velocity to individual clips, and cut them up so they fit with the music. Changing velocity usually for me means putting slow motion in parts I want to highlight, and I generally cut out parts of clips that I don’t think fit.
clips after some basic syncing with changes to velocity
Step V:
The fifth step is the combination of cropping (zooming and rotating different parts of clips) and adding effects as I think suit the video. Honestly, there is no simple way to explain this. Check youtube for tutorials, look around, ask people. Try new things, and save often so you won’t be afraid. Editing and effects can go as far as you want them to; I’m not going to pretend to be able to explain this or say that this is something I’m great with. The sky is really the limit here.
Step VI:
The last part of the editing process for me is going over the video piece by piece until I think things are good and it’s ready for a render. After the first render, unless by some miracle everything worked, I’ll watch the vid once or twice and fix what I didn’t think fit or worked. After doing this, I’ll render again and hopefully have a finished video.






