I’ve always wanted to put together videos from my time playing LotRO, but was never entirely sure how to go about it. Rog has been creating some and reminded me that FRAPS allows you to grab video in-game. I had completely forgotten about that since I’ve only used it for screens. I’ve not edited video in years and even then that was only in school, so I’m definitely a bit rusty.
I’ve been playing around with that, a free editor I found and various codecs to compress the video and finally put together something I was happy with: a video walkthrough of Bree. This won’t offer anything new to existing players, but I think it does a good job of showing off how well Turbine crafted the city and how large it is. This was during off-peak hours, so there weren’t too many people in the way.
If you’re interested, you can download a larger version too that’s about 640×440. My original was 1280×720 or so, but resulted in videos over 100 MBs for something this length. I think that resolution might be better suited for shorter clips.
I hope to make more in the future, some similar and some not. Hopefully I’ll get better at it too.
