How to Make a Montage in Halo 2

Gamers like to show off their skill in games such as Halo. A montage is a video of a bunch of kills in a game, usually in online multi-player. The different kinds of montages include Halo Sticky Montages that show awesome kills using the plasma grenades, and sniping montages that show 1-hit kills or a mass of kills.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Capture Card

1. Buy a good capture card. This is essential. It determines if your montage is a good or bad one. Never use video cameras to record the screen, it just doesn't work.

2. Get some kills while the capture card is running. Preferably during online multi-player. If you do it locally, some people might think it's "staged" or set up. If you are planning on doing that anyway, then try to make it seem realistic.

3. Upload the videos onto the computer, then edit them using a video editor such as Diamond Multimedia TV Wonder HD 650 PCI-Express. Try to separate all of your kills to different clips ahead of time, so you can edit it easier.

4. Add some music to your Halo Montage. Make sure the beat is hard, upbeat and makes you want dance. Try to make the kills right on the beat of the music. For example, if you have a drum roll followed by a cymbal crash, try adding a kill that shows you shooting the foe with an assault rifle at the moment of the crash; show the melee attack to finish him.

5. Avoid adding cheap kills, color changes or weird sound effects. Keep the sound effects from the game. Make the music louder but make sure you can still hear the gunshots.

6. Upload the montage to a site such as Youtube, Google Videos, Yahoo Videos, MetaCafe, Imeem or MySpace TV. Look for comments from viewers of your Halo 2 Montage.