Guild Wars 2

Good morning all.
I ditched my 80 human ranger for a brand new sylvari melee ranger recently, and I am enjoying the new look and feel of my character. I want to share my soloq, teamq, and wvw experiences with the ranger community. I have absolutely no knowledge of video editing and production and some of the vids I’ve seen here are awesome. Any input on programs or tricks I can do to produce a great video for the viewers would be greatly appreciated. I would also like to add some music to the vid, alas I also have no idea how to do that either. If the video program costs money, I am willing to spend some on this venture, so please don’t hesitate to post whatever the best video editing software is. Thank you for your time and information.

Best regards,
Norräh
Level 80 Sylvari Ranger

I use Windows Movie Maker, and FRAPs.

I’d highly recommend OBS. It’s free and open-source, and a lot less resource-intensive than FRAPS and a lot of other recording suites.

- Don’t use hardcore music (including metal, screaming, nonsense)
- Long fights, wether you win or not, are better than any short fight (because it’s real display of skill)
- If you are very serious about videos, put text in the video that pop up, like; in green: “He uses skill X” and then in red: “I react with skill Y”

I didn’t even know there was a windows movie maker lmao. I appreciate the input. As for music I really don’t like the screamo music, I was thinking something casual like some early 90s hip hop or 1960s funk. I’ll have to mess around before a final product is produced.

This’ll come in handy. Was thinking of doing some basic combat vids for gw2.
There has been a steady flow of new people in gw2 who don’t even know that you can dodge and pull of combos.
+ my guildies should be taught how to pvp in preperation of the guildvguild fighting

Make sure to include all your green arrow kills. Oh and afkers too.

No for real though, be sure to include every instance you get killed cause:
*1/3 think you cherry picked cause they jelly
*1/3 cry for nerfs cause they died from being shot by an arrow from any profession
*1/3 reroll to pewpew ranger and then cry for buffs

There are two types of viewers

• Elitists and their wannabees
• People who just want something to giggle at

Choose one to entertain and make it clear in vid title or they will just spam your comment section with unsolicited advice.

Currently when i record I use Dxtory and edit with… sony vegas i think? the video quality comes out well in my opinion ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7eW5yAGtRw is an example of the quality)

as for editing tips… uhh.. make sure your music is good (something i need to work on) and gifs in the chat box are adorable (or you can put a thing there showing your server/username on the offchance you get popular enough people want to play with you).

i’d suggest not putting fights vs underlevels or just bad players. imo, you “wrecking them!” isn’t as fun as seeing a good fight against an experienced player.

also, playing around with amusing handicaps is also pretty fun to watch (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-d9vGO52E this guy has some of my favorite videos to watch)

and that aside, the rest of it should come with experience

I’m using Playclaw for recording and Sony Vegas for editing, quality is pretty good and both programs are fairly easy to use. As for tips, make sure that your settings are matching and correct in both your recording and editing programs, no one enjoyes watching pixelated blurry videos (i.e missmatched reso and so on). You can make small test renders to check if the quality is good rather than making a full video and then noticing that something is not right.