Fleep’s First Machinima

Today I added 2GB of RAM and 1TB storage to my home system with a SimpleTech Duo Pro External HD in an attempt to solve my Machinima Problem – namely that Fraps kept freezing because my poor machine was steaming and I had less than 1 gig free space left. Doh.

Determined to make machinima, the RAM install went fairly well once I had the sticks paired properly and the SimpleTech drive was, well simple. Plug in and go. Yay! But the Fraps -> QuickTime Pro to convert .avi -> .mov didn’t work, had to do an intermediate step with VirtualDub which was a little annoying. Then loooong render time in QT -> upload to my blip.tv channel and if all goes well, you’ll see Fleep’s First Machinima down below.

Don’t get too excited, I’d just hit the record hotkey when Ryan came over to the plaza and we started chatting before I remembered I was recording, so it’s mostly just me fiddling with the camera HUD. Doh. Still, success??

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  1. Scottmerrick Oh
    February 24, 2008 at 9:23 am

    LOVELY! Great work, you! I hope you post it at the sleducation.ning.com site! and also wanted to tell you i discovered media-convert.com yesterday, does a nice job of converting anything to anything.

    FleepROCKS!

  2. Alanagh Recreant
    February 24, 2008 at 11:33 am

    Congrats! on your first machinima… may there be many more!

  3. Ellie Brewster
    February 24, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    Nice work, Fleep!

    I have been fiddling around a little bit with this myself, using a program called iShowU (for Mac). So far so good — maybe we can practice together sometime.

    How are you doing with sound?