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Hey Extravagant Timelapse Video Makers!
Posted by PoV (twitter: @mikekasprzak)
December 15th, 2010 2:03 am
Phil and I are discussing some ideas for the 10 year anniversary of Ludum Dare (2012). In addition to assuming the Mayan’s are correct, we want our 10 year celebration to be big. We’re still figuring out what that means, but I know a number of you like to do fun things with your timelapse videos.
So in the case we start doing LD exhibits or related events, I’d like to offer some suggestions that’ll make those videos more useful to us.
- Keep the video under 5 minutes (less is better).
- Show the theme and event number at the beginning (so people know what you’re doing — you can’t always read the description).
- Show the finished game at the end.
- Take credit!
- The more unique/interesting/amusing the video is, the more likely we’ll want to show it
- Music with a license that doesn’t require us to pay royalties is preferred.
- 16:9 is preferred (since TV’s are all that aspect now), but 4:3 is fine.
- Upload it to Youtube, so we can make a playlist.
- Keep a high quality original around for a while. I will be contacting a few of you within a month of the event for an original (and your permission to show it).
I’ll be collecting videos in each event of 2011, so you have plenty of chances to out-do your prior videos.
Again, you are not required to follow my guidelines, or make a video at all. If you don’t think you can make a good game while being recorded, focus on the game instead. Thanks everyone!
Intriguing.
Mmm, what about potential copyright problem like wallpapers, watching videos during the compo, etc?
Yeah. Ideally not, but I tried to make my list more video “production notes” than one restricting contents. Timelapses are so fast anyways, that infringing content will be there and gone in milliseconds.
That’s clearly “fair use”. As long as your timelapse isn’t a 2-minute snippet of Tron or something, you’re fine.
Great idea. I think the watched backgrounds and videos can be considered as a ‘part of the art’ of game making and should be no problem. But im not a lawyer
I’m participating for the first time, but I’ll sure have a look at how I can create an interesting time-lapse video.
Anyone have any guides for how to record? wouldn’t mind doing this but going to have enough tech running.
A list of several tools is here:
http://www.ludumdare.com/wiki/logtools
(Replace www with old… probably don’t have to do this, but if the wiki link page does it, might as well here.)
Do these time-lapse videos get voted? If so, does it have to be submitted at the same time as the game, or are there any specific rules?
There’s a voting category “community”, which is there to reward excellence in “other stuff” not the game making part — Blogging, doing a timelapse video, snapping and sharing photos of your workspace, your meals, etc.
Does this mean the time-lapse video has to be submitted at the same time as the game?
No, but within the next day is usually a good idea. Normally, people are tired after finishing their games, and take the next day off before starting voting.
I am gonna use a program to take a screenshot of my computer screen every 20 minutes, then putting those shots in a playlist sort of thing…
Why not use the program that everyone (lots of people probably) else is using? It takes the screenshots automatically and makes them into a video for you! http://keeyai.com/projects-and-releases/chronolapse/
I tried it out and its pretty neat.
If someone reading this thread needs royalty-free BGM for their video, I am the creator and copyright holder for the files “lostcan.xm”, “illegal0.xm” and “beat-170.xm” on modarchive.org – feel free to use or remix them for this (please give credit, and if you do a remix, state that people are hearing the remixed version, though).
(Don’t use illegal1.xm or illegal2.xm, though – I’m planning to use one of ‘em for my own timelapse!)
Thanks a lot, I think I’ll be using beat-170.xm for mine if that’s ok. Do you want the credit going to bro.ken.link or !llegal!nstruction?
For those looking for a timelapse tool for Mac OS X:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2009/12/11/getting-ready-3/
I then use Timelapse Assembler:
http://www.zdnet.fr/telecharger/logiciel/time-lapse-assembler-39825187s.htm
to create a .mov file.