►►►Making Blockland Movies

[homestsarrunner]

good tutorial but if you download fraps what are the ristrictoins without buying it

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[Masterlegodude]

good tutorial but if you download fraps what are the ristrictoins without buying it

You get a certain amount of time you can record, i think 3 - 5 minutes or something, you get a watermark (a line of text on the top of the video that says www.fraps.com), when taking a picture with Fraps, you can't use file types like .png and two others i forget

[Joker Card]

nice tutorial 10/10. i tried making a movie of my friends and me playing with zombies in my own custom place, but i didn't have anything to record with, so i got a video camera and recorded from my computer. not the best idea. 1. i couldn't move cause my camera was a camera with video option and 2. it was crap

[sky78]

how do you bring up the GUI?

[Stealth xD]

how do you bring up the GUI?

You bring up the GUI by going to Options then Controls and there is the GUI, if that is what you mean.

[Phat Pharm]

i downloaded FRAPS and it makes blockland slow whenever i record :( ,  i say it works like CRAPS, please help me fix this problem

LOL

[TakoSauce21]

How do i view the recordings i did?
i mean i used the in game recorder
and the files are .rec
how do i view them?
im on a macbook

[Isjix]

i downloaded FRAPS and it makes blockland slow whenever i record :( ,  i say it works like CRAPS, please help me fix this problem

That's supposed to happen, if its under 10 FPS, Get a better video card.

[e-maxx]

i need a FREE F.R.E.E vido recoder plz help i'm not paying 37$ just for a vido software that well make my harddrive full thats 17 more bucks then i payed for blockland plz HELP

[Flubbman]

Okay, so this has been asked for a lot and I know I've not made the best Blockland movies but at least I know how to do it.

So lets get the movie subject straight, recordings are not movies. Movies are shot by an outsider program and recordings are in game. Please take note that this tutorial is for making movies, not awesome recordings.

Right, onwards to the actual movie making. You will need to know what you are doing and a total control. If things go funky the movie is gonna flunk and the whole thing is just a waste of time. You need to have leaders designated for different things. Such as,
Director of Shooting (The recorder, the cameraman)
Director of Actors (Casting, sorting everyone out)
Director of Set (Props, maps, builds, etc)

Once we've got the direction triangle set up we need our equipment.
Blockland (How will you make a blockland movie without Blockland?)
A recording tool (Fraps is the most common, www.fraps.com)
An editing tool (Most people use windows movie maker although advanced film makers use an assortment)
An uploading site (Can be a friends site, can be YouTube, can be Google video, can be Bjwaymods.. whatever you can get your hands on)

Now we've still got our GUIs up, this wont look great on screen at all! So go onto your Blockland options and set them to look like this:

Only the recorder needs to do this, and the recorder should have his copy of fraps running by now. Another "trade secret" is that  shooting always makes you go twice as fast on screen, to solve this an admin should type in '/timescale 0.5' without the apostrophes.

You should shoot your film from different angles, stopping and starting from mixed locations. Try to make sure everything runs smoothly and actors know what they are doing because Fraps video files take up lots of space.

Now then, the hard bit... editing *Shudders*. Open your editor and import your videos in, you may need effects, you'll probably want to use transitions and opening and closing credits are a must. Once you've finished compile your film and put it to your uploading site. Don't forget to engage public interest or your hard work will have no purpose.


Stick to this tutorial and you'll have a smooth running film.

Much hope that this will stop the questions flooding in and we'll see an influx of new films coming in!

Aren't there any more recording tools?

[bullet]

 + i was a GOOD tutoirial :D

[McDoobie]

very nice :D

[odst john]

Timescale doesn't effect sound.

Yeah it does...

[The Zohan]

God tutorial, except I have a mac. Something like fraps for mac?

[Stacijukes]

i have a problem: i am broke so i need a substitute to fraps THAT IS F-R-E-E!!!! so i can make a movie dou