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.