How to Make GoodBlox Movies
Introduction
If you have seen the GoodBlox Game Trailer, you may be interested in making your own GoodBlox movies. Eventually we plan on creating an in-game video camera, but until then you can make movies using free 3rd party software.
Get In-game Footage
The easiest way to take in-game video clips is to use screen capture software. One good package is CamStudio. CamStudio is a free recorder with everything (and more) you will need for a perfect movie. HyperCam takes up to much RAM. FRAPS only allows 30 seconds. Camtasia ain't free. So with CamStudio, the easiest way to have a good size every time without having to change it is Region mode. (Region > Region) I recommend saying "Record audio from speakers" because you will get mostly your voice and surroundings with a mic.
Edit Your Movie
All Windows XP and Vista machines come with Windows Movie Maker, which is a very easy to use video editing program. You can use this program to splice together clips you have taken into a movie. You can also overlay a sound track, add a title screen, and add credits.
Sony Vegas is also a reliable source when it come's to making movie's.
Upload your completed movie to YouTube or Google Video, and tell the rest of us where it is!
Movie Ideas
Some ideas for movies:
- Make a guided tour of your place that shows off how awesome it is and maybe demonstrates the use of some secret passageways...
- Make a series where you visit a few places and then tell people your opinion on that place
- Make a training video showing your BrickBattle combat techniques
- Make an instructional video that shows how to build cool models in GoodBlox Studio
- Record your duels and share them with your friends
- Tell a story
- Make an educational video explaining something for a school project
- Keep a record of how your place used to look before making major changes
- Make a GoodBlox News show
- Make a GoodBlox travelog - visit different places and review them
- Make something hilarious
- Make Machinima (Red vs. Blue ect...)
- BLOOPERS!!!
How to finish off your movie
If your using Windows Movie Maker, this is how you do it: Go to File -> Save Movie File -> (Wherever your going to save it) -> (Your quality prefences), then let it finish it.
A note to movie makers/cameramen
If you're making a movie/video with a plot -or that tells a story-, make sure there are not more than 20 people in a scene at once. Remember, you still have to include yourself so you can actually film the movie/video.
