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[admin]

Video Tutorial:
1. First, you're going to need some clips of the game*. Set up your favorite video camera on a tripod so you can take video of the screen without having to hold the camera itself. This give you 2 free hands to handle and maneuver the phone.

2. Once you've captured some clips, there are a few programs that you can use to create your video. If you're video savvy, you can use Adobe Premier. However, this program is expensive, and not everyone may have access to it. I've found that iMovie or Windows Movie Maker will do the job just fine.

3. To use Windows Movie Maker, open up a new project and import your video clips. Then, import your background track of choice. There are a lot of good tutorials out there for how to splice together clips with different effects.

Windows Movie Maker Guides:
http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/mo ... ak_beg.htm
http://www.mightycoach.com/articles/mm2/index.html

iMovie Guide:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie-intro

Adobe Premier Guide:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/guides/video/ ... basics.htm

4. Once you've completed the movie and it looks good in your movie program of choice. You'll need to export the movie to a youtube compatible format. A high quality .mp4 file or .wmv will work just fine.

5. Log into youtube and upload your video. It'll take a little while after you upload the video for it to finally show up in high quality in youtube.

6. Share your video with the world! Let your friends and interested community members know about your creation and where to find it.

*You can also use the Android emulator and projectINF.apk file to run the game in an emulator on your computer. However, it takes a bit of work to get the emulator environment all set up, so I'll give those instructions and files out on an as-needed basis. Also, you'll want to grab the open-source program called CamStudio. If you want to get it started on your own, you'll need to look at the instructions here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

[nEx.Software]

Neato. Thanks. I've done some demos before using the SDK/Emulator + CamStudio approach. Fun times.
It can be tough to get a good capture using CamStudio. It takes some practice.

For installing the SDK and emulator, one can follow these directions I wrote up:
http://androidandme.com/2009/10/news/ho ... -emulator/

In the comments are instructions for Mac and Linux, though there is little difference from what I can tell.

[Lo0pz]

That's awsome nEx...

I would encourage anyone to have a go...

[TriGuN]

[edit]: nvm i gave up on it i'll wait till i get home it works on my other comp

[admin]

Hey TriGuN, nice forum images .

[TriGuN]

Hey TriGuN, nice forum images .

lol thanks im sad the seven takes mah sora but oh well also monday when i get home gonna test out the emulator and spoofing the id to my droids so i can use my scout

[ItsKimKimBaby]

is it possible to make a video tutorial without ur hands being in the way lol

[admin]

The only way I've figured out how to do that is the emulator route which requires a few extra steps.

[nEx.Software]

Yeah, and isn't recommended, since the users are shared between all emulator instances in existence.

That being said, anyone using the emulator to shoot footage can feel free to use the FrontlineFootage character I created. Just don't don't delete him, and be sure to let people know you who you are, else they're likely to think you are me.

[Lo0pz]

I'd be happy to help anyone get going with this. I am a huge fan of this type of idea and the more people we've got throwing out videos the better!

Lets establish some videos and get them up on FrontlineFootage which can be found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/FrontlineFootage

Fingers or not lets get it going. If you want access to putting your videos on the Fan Page "FrontlineFootage" then just let me know this could generate a lot of attention and useful URL's for other media resources which are being used to attract new people.