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Old 01-16-2010, 10:56 AM   #1
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a basic guide to WoW movie making on the mac.

So, I decided to make this video guide. Partly for my own benefit, as I want to start making some wow movies on my mac, but mostly for other people's benefit. For some reason, even though Macs are brilliant for making WoW movies, there are virtually no guides out there that cover how to make a wow video.

This is a short (about 4 mins) guide on how to make a video using the inbuilt recorder in the mac client, how to import it into iMovie 09, how to add some transition effects and titles, and also (most importantly) how to export the file.

The encoder I used was Quicktime, with a downloaded codec - X264 encoder. It's available for free online, and its very good.

I'd recommend downloading the video as the youtube stream and vimeo stream, while they should be HD, won't do it justice.
The file should play in Quicktime when downloaded, but I recommend using VLC - it's simply amazing and plays ANY video file without having to download any video codec packs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U4NpLFGhHk
http://www.vimeo.com/8759760
http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=136469


Any questions please feel free to post on here or better to PM me, I'll try to answer as best I can. I'll make a more detailed tutorial with some raid footage after Cataclysm hits (was only playing trial client during this film).

Hope this helps some people
the music I used is Immediate Music - Where Mighty Rivers Run (with choir). Also YouTube and Vimeo HD streams are up. Vimeo link is better HD stream. Video can be downloaded from the Vimeo link but requriers registration. I wanted to put up a filefront link too, but it fails too much.
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Old 08-27-2010, 04:38 PM   #2
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I did exactly what you did, along with the in-built recording on highest setting possible. Yet, when exported, my film still seems rather blurry and kinda shit quality.

Using X264/H264 codec.

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Old 12-19-2010, 03:12 AM   #3
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Good stuff. Trial and error ftw. I put up a bunch of stuff on http://www.wowpedia.org/Recording_an...on_a_Macintosh a year or two ago that might help.
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