How to Upload Machinima into Blip.tv

Craft Fair 2008 on the Teen Grid in Second Life

How to:
* Used FRAPs to film the footage inworld on SL.
* Uploaded these .avi files into a video editing software --- Adobe Premiere 4.
* Edited these .avi film clips, and inserted text and music.
* Saved the project as an Avi Video which had a size of 614 MB.
* Avi Video is large so will need to compress it.
* Compressed using QuickTime Pro.
* Found the Avi Video file in my harddrive where it had been saved.
* Right-clicked on this Avi Video and opened it in QuickTime Player.
* Then --- File --- Export --- Save Exported File as --- Movie to QuickTime Movie.
* Menu will appear. Choose "Options" for settings.

I use the following in settings:
Compression: H.264
Quality: High
Encoding Mode: Multi-Pass
Frame Renderong: Yes
Make sure "Fast Start" is checked.
Then the Avi Video will be exported and saved as a .mov file and be 33 MB in size.
Now I can upload this .mov file into Blip.tv.

Using Web 2.0 Tools

The world has become more and more "flat" as Tom Friedman has shown. And the evolution of the Internet, the so-called Web 2.0, has been a large factor.
These on-line tools ---blogs, wikis, social networking sites, media sharing tools --have allowed people to connect and share and communicate as never before.
Tools such as the one I used (Imageloop)to create the image slideshow are so numerous that I cannot begin to list them. And these kinds of tools are indeed changing the manner in which we relate to others.

Web 2.0 Cool Tools
ImageLoop
One True Media
Slide
Slideoo

Medieval Festival at Eye4You Alliance

Machinima---How to---In Second Life

I created this slide tutorial on "How-To Create Machinima" and have used it a few times when I have been asked to help others understand the procedure for creating machinima.
This slideshow has been put onto a presentation board at the Teacher Networking Center at Eduisland II in Second Life.The presentation is situated upstairs. There you will also find many tools and equipment as well as informational notecards and web sites on machinima.
Come by and take a look at the TNC.
There are numerous educational tools for teaching and learning in second Life.

| View | Upload your own

Technical Challenges behind Second Life Video

I have been using FRAPs to record my videos and have found that program to be quite good for my needs. The other day I was reading some posts on machinima and especially on how to record sound and voice in Second Life, when I came across an interesting article by Torley . What caught my attention was the statement:

“FRAPS continues to be a popular choice for "pure" machinima, but not for video tutorials. Why? Because it fails to capture special cursors (like those used in click actions), has no means of highlighting the regular cursor and clicks (as I've come to enjoy), and it can't capture "regular" applications like Firefox with the ease-of-use Camtasia Studio Screen Recorder can, which is why I switched.”

Now I have been concentrating on what Torley defines as ‘pure” machinima, but it is still an interesting idea that there are different tools for shooting types of machinima.
Anyways, I do recommend reading this post by Torley in which he describes ways of recording video in Second life, about codecs, and encoding videos.
How I dealt with technical challenges behind Second Life video tutorial production

Using Voice with Machinima

I have been playing with the use of sound in the machinima that I have been creating lately. The newscast sound was taped inworld. It did not turn out too well, and I realized that I needed to fine-tune the settings in my sound card.


For this machinima I filmed using FRAPs, then edited the footage with Adobe Premier 4.
I used audacity to record my voice and added music playing in the background.
Saved the video as an avi file, then used Quicktime pro 7 to export it into a mov file that I uploaded onto the web.


Eye4You Alliance hosted a Medieval Tournament on April 12th. Teens from all over TSL came to watch and participate in the sword and archery contests. This machinima shows some of the sword contests.

Recording Voice

This was my first attempt in recording voice in Second Life.
I used FRAPs to record the show, then edited the video in Adobe Premier 4.
I had played with the settings on my sound card in my computer as well as with the settings in Second Life --- under Preferences.
I found that the voice was too soft and needed to play with the voice volume settings a little more.
Here are some of the tutorials that I used from the web.

Voice Recording---Torley Linden's Method

How to Boost the Mic Volume

Torley Linden/Vidtut Process




This is a weekly newscast about Teen Second Life filmed on the teen island of Eye4You Alliance. This week Chilko Tardis, Storm Basiat and Vince Bosen will interview Eric Mauvase and Livi Beebe about content theft from the main grid, and also about the recent protests against the Desire fashion house, and some information against another alleged thief. This is a pilot episode where the use of recorded voice in SL was used for the first time. Please excuse the sound of the voice and realize that it will improve in future episodes.