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Have any of you guys played the game Mass Effect? It’s a great Sci-Fi based Role playing game with echoes of Star Wars and Star Trek, the game is very cinematic with lots of story sequences and great voice acting. Anyway, I thought it might be cool to cut together scenes from the game into a movie, about 2 or 3 hours in length. Only problem is I have no feckin’ idea where I’d start. I’ve done editing before but this would just be a massive undertaking. Just trying to gage if there’s any interest in this.

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the way I've always done it is to plug my console into a dvd recorder, then play for an hour whilst recording straight onto a dvd-rw at highest quality, rip it off onto your hard drive then edit in your favouriteprogem

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daveytod said:

the way I've always done it is to plug my console into a dvd recorder, then play for an hour whilst recording straight onto a dvd-rw at highest quality, rip it off onto your hard drive then edit in your favouriteprogem

Yeah, the only thing about ME is the choices. I would probably want to find a script or something on the Internet and plan that out ahead of time. The other thing is the gameplay sequences, I would have to find a way to cut some of those together to bridge cutscenes.

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If you're going to do this, might I suggest using a female Shepard? She's a much better voice actress than the male one is an actor.

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I would like to do this for God Of War III.

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Histeria said:

If you're going to do this, might I suggest using a female Shepard? She's a much better voice actress than the male one is an actor.

 

True, but I'd probably end up using vanilla Shepard

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I never played it, but I have seen footage from it, so I am very interested.

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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If you're using the PC version of Mass Effect, use the program 'Fraps' to record everything on screen and all audio. You need to buy a licence in order to use it legitimately without it adding watermarks to your videos, but it's cheap and pretty worth it. I used it for recording in-game footage for a short film I had to make in university.

http://www.fraps.com/

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brash_stryker said:

If you're using the PC version of Mass Effect, use the program 'Fraps' to record everything on screen and all audio. You need to buy a licence in order to use it legitimately without it adding watermarks to your videos, but it's cheap and pretty worth it. I used it for recording in-game footage for a short film I had to make in university.

http://www.fraps.com/

yeah, not sure if im going to end up doing it this summer, but if I do i'm probably buy the PC version just to get better PQ and less hassle.

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Octorox said:

brash_stryker said:

If you're using the PC version of Mass Effect, use the program 'Fraps' to record everything on screen and all audio. You need to buy a licence in order to use it legitimately without it adding watermarks to your videos, but it's cheap and pretty worth it. I used it for recording in-game footage for a short film I had to make in university.

http://www.fraps.com/

yeah, not sure if im going to end up doing it this summer, but if I do i'm probably buy the PC version just to get better PQ and less hassle.

Either that or, youtube can be pretty good for some HD game footage. It is a newer game, so somebody could have them on there. There is a program that allows you to get youtube videos in HD, but I don't know if the rules would condone my suggestion, so I will leave it at that.

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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