Helpful tips of constructing a AAR

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Hello Guys,
i would like to create AAR videos. But what do I need and how it works
I'm grateful for all tips
or already exists such a thread ?!
 
I will be watching this thread because I'm interested in the same. I've been watching Johnsy's and Ithikial's vids for some time now. I downloaded fraps and it works pretty good.
 
I've done a couple for CM and a lot for ARMA 3. I capture using FRAPS which is the easy part and I edit using Director 13. I initially used windows moviemaker which is fine but I prefer to do quite a lot of editing to capture the highlights which moviemaker is not so good at. I found it crashed a lot once I started cropping timelines on anything over 10 minutes long.

Before I started publishing I had a think about how I wanted to tell my stories. Ithikial's videos give the viewer everything, the planning, order issue etc. Other styles are more a synopsis, some with spoken commentary others with written updates through the video. There are a lot of AAR out there, in this forum and on YouTube, which I'm sure you've seen. I don't think there is a right or wrong style but I think it helps if the person making the video is concious of what style they are going to make that specific video in and how they want to tell their story.

Good luck, the more video AAR out there the better. Much more interesting than watch dancing with stars or some soap opera.
 
I use Fraps to capture the video, and Adobe Premier to edit. Both are reasonably priced and straight forward to use. If you're going to be adding commentary to your AAR you'll probably also want a microphone, and a headset so you can hear the game without its sound being recorded by the microphone as you speak.

In terms of style, as DoubleD says there are lots of different styles out there. The most straightforward way is to record and comment as you play out turns. I personally record clips from the game, edit them into the video and then record commentary over the edited clips. Doing it that way means you can cut out much of the interludes between the action. Be warned though it is a more time consuming way of producing an AAR.

There are also some great cinematic style videos out there. For that kind of style I recommend looking at Peiper TJ on Youtube

 
Think its time to say:

Many thanks to everyone for your help settings!

Hopefully soon I find the time for my first video:rolleyes:
 
@Odin That's excellent. I have the free version of fraps which gives me 30 seconds of action and I have an old version of Premiere to tie the clips in.

Question: How do you get the "playing the replay" words from not showing and the top of the screen?
 
I haven't cut that part from my videos. But I think Pieper has done this by editing his clips together into a video and then using a crop tool (i think something like this exists in Premier but can't remember where off the top of my head). I think you'll have to be careful when recording, if cropping your video, as I'd imagine it's easy to crop parts of the video you might want included in the final edit.
 
Okay thanks, I'll check that out in Premiere. I subscribed to your youtube channel btw. ;)
 
Can't really add more to what DoubleD and Odin have already said. Only tip I'd add is if possible save the recorded video to a separate hard drive away from your Combat Mission / 'Other Game' install. It can slow down performance a bit more if you are reading and writing to the same hard drive while also playing the game. For my YouTube vids I have a separate SATA HDD pretty much just for storage of video files and media.
 
Thanks a lot, mate´s
I got myself the program "Action" to the sample

At the first look, it seems very interessting to be
easy to use and requires relatively little hard drive space...we will see

(and a separate HDD is also ordered;))
 
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