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Well, since i've always hated writing and was pretty amazed at SuperÜ montage I decided try and start a raw footage archive so there would be more sources to draw from for a future 2013 montage or even occasional promotional clips and try to absolve my lack of AAR posts :).

The main goal is to creates a repository that those inclined in the ways of video editing can use freely for their Folk ARPS video needs. That means this index is for raw video that includes everything and not carefully edited pieces which are better displayed in the main FA youtube channel. Additionally as a side effect the archive also provides a nice reference to potentially remember events or see them from a different perspective when writing your AAR.

While the archive starting with my own perspective from my recording of sessions everyone is welcomes to contribute as kefirz has already done, to get your footage them added to the index all that's needed is a reply on this thread informing me of the youtube or any other video hosting site url.

As for the how, I personally tend to recording the full mission from slotting to score screen of the sessions, I've given some details on my current process bellow, for those uninitiated in video capturing that would like to contribute. Discussion on how to improve it would also be quite welcome as I'm no expert when it comes to encoding video.

Footage archive Index:

[Sun] 02 Dec 2012 (The Finale) [Sun] 06 Jan 2013 (Joint session: CiA & PA) [Tue] 08 Jan 2013 (Tanks for the memories) [Sun] 13 Jan 2013 (Slippery Holy Rabbits) [Tue] 15 Jan 2013 (Clan warfare) [Sun] 20 Jan 2013 (Lethal Ladder) [Tue] 22 Jan 2013 (Captain's slog) [Wed] 24th January Throwback Wednesday [Sat] HiP & Vanilla 26 Jan 2013 (Laser Guided Mortars) [Sun] 27 Jan 2013 (Keep on truckin') [Tue] 29 Jan 2013 (LZ Lazytown) [Sat] 2 Feb 2013 Trowback Mod Saturday [Sun] 03 Feb 2013 (Soviet Bowl) [Tue] 05 Feb 2013 (Instagram Instadeath) [Sat] 9 Feb 2013 Trowback Mod Saturday [Sun] 10 Feb 2013 (Horsemeat Hill)
  • Unable to attend so there's no raw footage afaik
[Tue] 12 Feb 2013 (Snipers? Say What?) [Sat] 16 Feb 2013 Trowback Mod Saturdays [Sun] 17 Feb 2013 (Carson, get down!) [Tue] 19th Feb 2013 (Combined harms) [Sun] 24 Feb 2012 (SuperStrang) [Tue] 26 Feb 2013 (It was Tuesday) [Sun]03 Mar 2013 (Ill Communication) [Tue] 05 March 2013 (Its my first time be gentle) [Sun] 10 Mar 2013 (We DID lose the mission) [Tue] 12 March 2013 (We died, alot) ARMA 3 Saturday Research Program [Sun] 17 Mar 2013 (Ferrard the Fog Fetishist) [Tue] 19 Mar 2013 (We beach here!) [Sun] 24 Mar 2013 (A walk in the woods) [Tue] 26 Mar 2013 (Cheeses of Nazareth) [Fri] 29 Mar 2013 [V+] (Never let Draith fly) [Sun] 31 Mar 2013 (Friend or Foe?) [Tue] 02 Apr 2013 (Kevin Costner) [Fri] 06 Apr 2013 [V+] (We let Draith fly) [Sun] 07 Apr 2013 (Glorious) [Tue] 09 Apr 2013 (Live fast die hard) [Fri] 13 Apr 2013 [V+] (Guus, lest we forget) [Sun] 14 Apr 2013 (The one with the Hind) [Tue] 16 Apr 2013 (The Party is always watching) [Fri] 19 Apr 2013 [V+] (The one with the heli-crashes) [Sun] 21 Apr 2013 (Head ... it's a ridge) [Tue] 23 April 2013 (Happy Bodgeday) [Fri] 26 Apr 2013 [V+] (Everyone died, the sequel.) [Sun] 28 Apr 2013 (Success is a four letter word) [Tue] 30 Apr 2013 (An intimate night with Tiger) [Fri] 03 May 2013 [V+] (The CDF killed the radio star.) [Sun] 05 May 2013 (Friendly Fires) [Tue] 07 May 2013 (Triple Flanking) [Fri] 10 May 2013 [V+] (Hostages gone wild) [Sun] 12 May 2013 (Not much of a launcher, Tigershark) [Tue] 14th May 2013 (Return of the Wash!) [Fri] 17 May 2013 [V+] (Grudge match) [Sun] 19 May 2013 (Methodicalism) [Tue] 21 May 2013 (Lots and lots of death) [Fri] 24 May 2013 [V+] (LZ Shakira) [Sat] 25 May 2013 (Operation Northern Lights) [Sun] 26 May 2013 (Cam and Super double team it!) [Tue] 28 May 2013 (Trees with teeth) [Fri] 24 May 2013 [V+] (Ambushes are hard.) [Sun] 02 Jun 2013 (Swarm of Bees Formation) [Tue] 04 Jun 2013 (Engineer Grenadier) [Fri] 08 Jun 2013 [V+] (Ambushes are hard) [Sun] 09 June 2013 (Sniper? I 'ardly know 'er!) [Tue] 11 Jun 2013 (Look sir, toys!) [Fri] 14 June 2013 [V+] (Who can? Dan can!) [Sun] 16 Jun 2013 (Uprising) [Tue] 18 Jun 2013 (Tactical Trees) [Fri] 21 Jun 2013 [V+] ("Tell me when you die") [Sun] 23 Jun 2013 (A PTSD experience) [Tue] 25 Jun 2013 (The massacre of mogilevka) [Fri] 28 Jun 2013 [V+] (Technical difficulties) [Sun] 30 Jun 2013 (The Alamo) [Tue] 02 Jul 2013 (Dead Russians) [Fri] 05 Jul 2013 [V+] (CSAR 101) [Sun] 07 Jul 2013 (The Calmest War) [Tue] 09 Jul 2013 - Mixed Victories [Fri] 12 Jul 2013 [V+] (Special Ops) [Sun] 14 Jul 2013 (From death do us flank) [Tue] 16 Jul 2013 (River giveth & river taketh) [Fri] 19 Jul 2013 [V+] (Berry trees in the moonlight) [Tue] 23 Jul 2013 (Raising Hell)
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I could help you with that, you just fraps it all together and upload on youtube then? Or do you render them also in some kind of movie making software, like Sony Vegas.
How would you extract the ''action-ish'' moments? I think when it's on yt you can't download the vid again and chop all of them up to make a montage.
I'm guessing a long period of starting at all those vids will take most of your December, or I could help with some of that.
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Kefirz wrote:I could help you with that, you just fraps it all together and upload on youtube then? Or do you render them also in some kind of movie making software, like Sony Vegas.
How would you extract the ''action-ish'' moments? I think when it's on yt you can't download the vid again and chop all of them up to make a montage.
I'm guessing a long period of starting at all those vids will take most of your December, or I could help with some of that.
My process is recording with fraps at 1920x1080 full size, 30fps, no file splitting, i usually start at the beginning of slotting and stop a few moments after mission end, after that I use handbrake to encode it into the smaller x264 format, I currently use normal with big file, web optimized enabled and RF at 22.5, this still produces very big files for hour long missions so I'm looking into cutting down quality further down.

After the batch encoding I simply put it all uploading to youtube over night, with my 3mbps upload I tend to be done in a couple of nights depending on size (10gb per night or so).

Quick description trying to go trough potential highlights, some annotations to skip the slotting and planning and it's done.
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Ok, sounds simple enough.
I was recording some of my games some time ago, but I just didn't like sitting at the PC and putting it all together and rendering it afterwards, it just took me too long to do it :D
I might add some quick links to some action in the description tab.
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Added latest session footage, at the time I'm writing this some will still be uploading so might not be available right away.
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This is starting to become an extensive archive, 2013 is already saying thank you!!!
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SuperU wrote:This is starting to become an extensive archive, 2013 is already saying thank you!!!
You won't when you have to comb through 520 hours of video footage come the end of the year xD

Seriously though, good on you for doing this, daf!

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Save for any unforseen events i should capture the entire year worth of sessions, I'm making an effort to put anything of interest in the description in an attempt to make it easier to look trough, but come the end of the year it will be quite the task to go trough it all :(
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An easy way of referencing for decent material may be to look towards the AAR threads - the sessions which were more fun for people (or more controversial!) tend to have more replies, and reading people's experiences in the missions is a great way to find what stuff to look out for.

Of course, I don't expect anyone to look through ~104 threads of AARs, but it's a place to start if you're really stumped for stuff.
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StrangLove wrote:An easy way of referencing for decent material may be to look towards the AAR threads...
I imagine that's exactly why Daf is linking to all of them in the post :P

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