Match/Practice recording
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:06 pm
With the addition of SnakeStyles to our team, we are going to need to get as much data as possible for him to analyse from both practices and matches.
The initial sources of data that come to mind are recordings from the mumble server, and recording of game footage from as many points of view as possible.
I'm not sure how we can go about recording the Mumble channel? Is that something that can be done on the server, or do we do it from the client side?
As to recording video, we need volunteers every match /prac to record the game, and upload compressed footage for analysis. Ideally volunteers should be able to record footage without any impact on their in-game performance, so the task should fall to those with beefy enough PC's, and of course sufficient internet data/bandwidth to upload the resultant videos. It makes sense to get recordings from as many players as possible over time, so that different play styles can be analysed, and commented on.
Following a discussion on SGS, it seems that the best program for recording in-game is MSI Afterburner. It appears to have a significantly lower performance overhead than FRAPS, and it's also free to download. I suggest that everyone download themselves a copy, and see if running with it in game is feasible on their PC.
As I've never made a vid of my own before, I'm not sure what tools would then be used to compress the footage after it's been recorded? Anyone able to provide input on this?
I guess we'll also need a site for uploading footage on to that we can control access to (I assume that we don't want other clans analysing our footage for their own benefit). Any suggestions on this?
The initial sources of data that come to mind are recordings from the mumble server, and recording of game footage from as many points of view as possible.
I'm not sure how we can go about recording the Mumble channel? Is that something that can be done on the server, or do we do it from the client side?
As to recording video, we need volunteers every match /prac to record the game, and upload compressed footage for analysis. Ideally volunteers should be able to record footage without any impact on their in-game performance, so the task should fall to those with beefy enough PC's, and of course sufficient internet data/bandwidth to upload the resultant videos. It makes sense to get recordings from as many players as possible over time, so that different play styles can be analysed, and commented on.
Following a discussion on SGS, it seems that the best program for recording in-game is MSI Afterburner. It appears to have a significantly lower performance overhead than FRAPS, and it's also free to download. I suggest that everyone download themselves a copy, and see if running with it in game is feasible on their PC.
As I've never made a vid of my own before, I'm not sure what tools would then be used to compress the footage after it's been recorded? Anyone able to provide input on this?
I guess we'll also need a site for uploading footage on to that we can control access to (I assume that we don't want other clans analysing our footage for their own benefit). Any suggestions on this?
