How to make a montage.

I guess a few of you have seen Pawweezy, Phantaci and Chris making montages... Just thought it might be a good idea to put a thread together with the problems and maybe a few tips for making a montage.

For all the UK guys here is a good one.



This guy reckons the dazzle doesn't work with Vista... although the actual pinnacle (dazzle) site says it will work with vista.

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/uk/Products/Consumer+Products/Dazzle/Dazzle+Video+Archiving/Dazzle+DVD+Recorder.htm

I want to make a montage and I would have bought the stuff already if I could guarantee I wasn't wasting my time and money.

I wanna get all this stuff set up.. Its really good to have it all in place.

Do you have vista or windows XP? The guy in that video seems pretty adamant that it doesn't work with Vista.

EDIT: OK I think I am slowly getting the hand of this... the dazzle will not work with the windows movie maker so the guys and gals out there who have made a montage could you please comment on this thread as to which programs can effectively produce a nice montage.

How to make a montage?

No.1 - Make sure the kills are sick, and intense. Missing 16x with your rocket launcher then finally killing the guy because he paniced and jumped off and fell to his death. That is NOT montage material.

No.2 Don't slow everything down. I find it pathetic when the so called ''good'' players turn a 1 1/2 minute video to 7 minutes because EVERYTHING IS AT 1/4 speed. UT3 isn't enter the ****ing matrix, and it isn't MAX PAYNE with bullet time. Speed/Slow the action according to the rythym of the song. You want everything to flow well. Try to spread out your best kills. Progress from least to greatest till the end of the montage. Or (something i would have done). Have the sickest kill que up with the begining of a high note or solo (sorry kids, only works with heavy metal)

No.3 STOP WITH THE CRAPPY MUSIC. It gets old having to mute every video is out there. Linkin Park, Godsmack, Disturbed, Drowning Pool all that **** is way overplayed.

No.4 Flash special effects isn't really all that necessary. As long as the crowd can see the can you pulled off. Thats all that matters. It gets really obnoxious when all these queers like to add sprinkled fairy dust with victoria's secret forever young glitter all over the ****ing screen after every ****ing kill that make.

No.5 At the end of EVERY montage. BE SURE to give credits out to all of those who helped you in the process of making the montage. Also be sure to put ''Reverendcrow likes ICP'' and big bold letters at the end of the video.

Originally posted by Helscream Also be sure to put ''Reverendcrow likes ICP'' and big bold letters at the end of the video.

I would say:

1) Make sure your music doesn't have words, I always find it annoying when I'm watching a montage and I have to listen to some awful song at the same time. I find they work a lot better if the music you're using has no words and you can focus on making your footage match the music.

2) Timing - If your music has lots of heavier beats in it, try and match your kills, or perhaps direct rocket hits/headshots with those beats, it makes the montage much more enjoyable to watch.

3) Make sure the kills you are presenting are consistent. It's no good having a truly epic kill followed by something done all the time. As helscream said, building up the quality of the kills as you go through is a good idea, that way, people don't see something amazing, then find the rest mediocre because nothing else stands up to that kill.

4) Creating a montage with one night of play, or one week even, isn't impressive. it just shows that you're is too lazy to work on it and want to produce one quickly for the inevitable "great montage" comments you recieve. If you put in a good amount of time, building up a lot of high quality kills and then spend time editing it properly as well it will show and make your montage a much more enjoyable thing to watch. Also, make sure the footage is your own, and you havn't filled up time with other peoples.

Right I uploaded a vid to youtube...



I recorded it in best quality on the dazzle platinum but when I uploaded it to youtube it came out in this crappy quality... Any tips anyone? Just about how to get quality vids.... the content itself is irrelevant.

Ahhhh thats cool... When I'm recording it I get really high quality onto my pc... but the transition to youtube seemed to lose it a lot... wegame it is :)

Thanks Drokun...

Again if anyone can offer any tips they would be greatly appreciated.

Originally posted by xXchris_cXx Why do people write so much about how to make a montage.If you take the time to edit,& Buy the equipment,You should be able to pick the song you want,and kills you want..If you watch a montage for the first time,and it sucks,don't watch other ones by the same person. Also the game room on Mlgpro.com seems to have the best quality for me

 i agree but when ur trying to "show off bad ass kills" dont use kills that take 2346732094732094732947329048797 rockets to kill someone or some lame ass predictable shot use something spectacular

I got most of this stuff sorted now... I also agree with Chris on the subject of being able to pick your own song and kills...

My montage will most likely suck, I can't do moving combo's that well and headshots are few and far between... so I'm probably have a lot more rocket and alt flak and link kills than other montages...

Its not about how much I can kill someone its more about me having something fun to do and learning a new skill at the same time... Hell I might even make a montage of people killing me... got enough footage already for that one!

LOL I wouldn't put a darkwalker kill in... stuff I would probably use are:

• ultra/monster kills in the tank...
• combos
• headshots
• predicted rocket or flak shots
• alt link
• IH :)

I guess when you watch back though the footage you kinda either think that was cool or that was crap...

As for adding you phantaci... well I don't think I have ever killed you... think you might be the only player I have never killed lol so I won't get my hope up too much on that one.

Wow killingugood... the quality is much better now! thanks!

I've been getting many questions about recording game play, and made this post to hopefully fill you in on many different options to consider for recording footage. 

Do you currently play in High Def, or Standard Def? 
It would be a shame to sacrifice your HD gaming quality by downgrading to standard def for recording.  If HD, then some devices will allow component video - rarely HDMI, but these are more expensive than SD devices.  The Dazzle devices, or a USB video capture stick from blackmagic design, seem pretty cool for standard def.   Both look like a good deal.

Do you have a computer close by the PS3, or in other room?
 
Do you already own a DVD recorder?
If so, then you could use it to make recordings onto DVD and transfer them to PC for editing.  Not many DVD recorders have component video inputs, so it would most likely have to be composite video or super video.  This should result in very nice quality, since it won't be compressed at all.  Or if you have a vcr, you could use that for recording, but you would still need to somehow transfer that content on to your pc for editing.

Many different options as you can see.  Any questions?? lol.  I hurt my head.