How to Make a Halo Montage
Video gaming has gone from a hobby occasionally looked down upon in its formative years to a common activity taken part in by most young people and many adults as well. One popular offspring of gaming is the uploading of highlight videos of a player's exploits to popular video hosting sites such as YouTube. Creating your own montage video with footage from the popular "Halo" series on the Xbox 360 may seem impossible at first glance, but it is far simpler than you would expect.
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Things You'll Need
- Video capturing device
- Xbox
- Halo game
- Video editing software
- Music file
Instructions
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Set up your video capturing device. The range of device options is based on what you are willing to spend. On the high end, there are converters which allow you to play and record your system directly into your computer. If you are on a budget, however, simply aiming a camera at your screen can allow you to capture footage as you play.
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Check your available hard drive space, as video files can get quite large if you record a long gaming session. A simple method to test on a PC is to right click on the drive you will be saving to while in Windows Explorer, and select "Properties." It will tell you how much space is used, and how much is available.
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Insert the Halo game of your choice into your Xbox or Xbox 360 and load it up.
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Play the game while recording to get your game play footage onto your computer's hard drive.
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Open up the video editing software of your choice.
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Import the movie files into the video editing software. For most programs, this is as simple as selecting "File" and then "Import."
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Select a music file or music files for use in the montage. Your song length should match your video length, so select a song or selection of songs that come to the approximate length of the video desired.
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Cut highlights from your game play. While you chose the songs to put you in the desired range of video length, it is now important to adjust the exact length of video to that of the musical selections, so as to not have a portion with no sound, or to cut off mid-song, both of which make the montage less effective.
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Export the video and upload it to a video site like YouTube. "Export" is usually located under the "File" or "Edit" menus of most programs.
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