Guild Wars March MAT Final - [KMD] v [dP]

Ripping video from youtube is easy. Ripping video from anywhere is possible, if user can see it, he can save it; even if it would be capturing it playing on monitor with cell phone camera.

Your best bet is to make video really yours in term of branding (you mentioned your nick several times ... any plagiator would have to cut it away or dub over it.) You can add "tv station logo" to corner. Etc etc ... Eventually making it easier to make new video than to try steal yours. If people would copy it as it is, your credit will be preserved, if they try to get around it, they will produce shitty video...

I agree, watermarking would do a big difference in preventing people from stealing your work. I enjoyed the video. Hope to see more.

mmmmm, I have thought about that, considering thats part of what I do for my company in real life... but not sure as of yet how to integrate that in... WMM is not the greatest editor in the world...

if you record stuff with the registered/paid for version of gamecam i believe you can have it record with your own watermark on top, that way can still use windows movive maker.

nice video, gives a bit of insight to those that don't know anything about gvg, which may bring more players across

That was quite enjoyable to watch.
But even with the YouTube HQ, I was hoping for higher quality to see clearly what was going on. Get high enough quality and you certainly wouldn't need to say the player names as people would be able to read them from the screen.

Looked into it, and it does have watermarking, thank you!

Also, the video as seen over 1,000 views in just 2 days... just simply wow

Awesome job man.
Keep up the good work.

take a look at virtualdub. its not really an editor per say, but it can do things like add watermarks.

For any who hasn't seen it. Courtesy of Asp. Nov. MAT, rawr/KMD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFWvdyCk1Uo

Thanks for that, it was the most fun Ive had on GW in weeks.

Great video, enjoyed the commentary.

Nice commentary, but you should know that worrying about people stealing your work doesn't apply to the video. That is entirely owned and copyright by ArenaNet and NCSoft. I think the audio commentary is copyright to you. I enjoyed the commentary, but the video quality leaves much to be desired, even in "high quality." That's a limitation on YouTube's part, however, through no fault of your own.

Yep, definatly was kind enjoyable to watch...the commentary made it fun for sure....I'l be keeping an eye out for more like these

I lol'ed at how "KMD has never won a GvG before"

Over all, great work. The game needs more people like this who really try and stir up some excitement.

It was a very nice video. Too bad dP didn't bring their A-game, otherwise it would have been more interesting.

it didn't matter whether dP brought their A-game or not. the deciding factor was almost purely their build choice: hex pressure gets pwned by a teleporting rainbowspike. oh, and they didn't have infuse from what i could tell. that by itself means autolose.

No, Monk 2 had Infuse... they were just being killed too much to notice it... if you watch in the Blue Guild Hall part (half way) when there is a pressure on Monk 1, there was an infuse from Monk 2 -> Monk 1 before the D-Pact Kill.

BTW, LoL at the toon strip from pig

Asp made that and a load of other comic strips.
They're all on QQ and most of them are really good.
You do need to know the people to find them funny though.

I enjoyed the video. It made the match more interesting than just watching the replay.

A couple things though, for possible future videos:

- Commentators are always supposed to talk. You had a couple pauses there before the match. Fill them in with something. Any information about the players, teams, point of the features of this particular guild hall. Just not silence.

- Try to spoil the ending less. You said at least three times that KMD "might" win their first gold cape and never said anything similar about the other team :P

lawl

very good video, quite entertaining. i liked it =D just wish the picture quality was slightly better

just wanna say thx for the vid and commentary,

Again, TY all

Ya like a comment that was posted on the Youtube site itself... It would be nice to have an extra Color Commentator with me to bring more incite with my action calling... kinda like on sport events where there are two people... the Caller and the Color. During the action... I am having to call the action, watch the health bar, change the camera angles... But I understand what you mean at the begging there. I will do the best I can with these... this being my first voyage into this arena, I am taking any and all construtive critisium to make these coverage videos better. So thank you for that!

I will practice on some other matches in the mean time leading up to the April MAT Final

Good job Sabre. I don't follow PVP much, but if there are more vids like this, I will be keeping an eye on things.

Aside from the suggestions earlier, I would have to add:

1) Add a pre/post game section. the pre can discuss a bit of the Meta, and some of the builds used on the teams. That can add some info and advice for those of us who might like to engage in PVP but haven't seen a lot of the builds in action. The post can point out the Meta builds in particular scenes (like replays).

2) Do interviews with current/previous winners and finalists. Ask them about their strategies, their plans, etc. Kind of a locker room chat.

3) Get the guru mods to sticky a post with links to this, or else have guildwars.com add this to their site. You did a great job with this, and I think with a little help from them, this could be something that could be something that really gets people interested in the PVP.

I realize this is a bit of work, but from the response, I'm sure that Anet would be happy to give you some help.

Kudos, pal.

MAT > american football.

thanks Sabre! 5 stars :]

Thank You

Now that is a great idea... it will give me more time to get into the meta and builds that are being used for the final, which will alow for me not to worrie as much on that integration and concintrate on the game play more. Not sure if I could get a "interview" during a "post game", but we will see. Nice one!

My only worrie, is a full 28 minute battle... I might have to "move ahead into the match" because that could take up about 35 minutes of coverage... which in youtube terms... I would go over the 10 min cap. I would have to make a part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4 to cover the entire event... commercial breaks anyone?

I have already spoken with Regina, and she said she liked it and will look into placing a note of it on the www.guildwars.com Community News and Notes But I would not mind some Guru Mod integration with this... with this being my first venture into this MAT coverage, I didn't want to push my luck to much at first...

But now that it has shown great popularity (thank you guys) for you GWGuru Mods here, this is some stats that you should be interested in hearing about for this video (all stats are per Youtube Insight of the video as of 04/06/09)

- This video as seen over 1,700 views with 76% of the viewership comming from external sites.
- 52.5% of the overall total viewership is coming from this Guru site.
- It had over 500 views in the first 24 hours of the video being posted with 84% of the viewership comming from this Guru Site
- It is still averaging 100 views a day for the past 3 days.
- 17.32% of the overall total viewership is comming from word of mouth (IM, E-Mail or other websites/forums that I did not post on)

So what this means is that this video has seen the most exposer from this Guru site and not only are people watching mostly from this site, but they are spreading the video on their own terms which shows appreciation and populartiy. So please contact me if you would like to integrate this kind of coverage for future MATs.

Its offical! www.GuildWars.com: Community News - 04/09/09

Kumori Inu has posted an exciting play-by-play video commentary of the March GvG final between Straight Outta Kamadan [KMD] and Dangerous Pumpkins [dP]. Watch his video on YouTube and discuss it over on Guild Wars Guru.

Thank you Regina and to everyone for your support and suggestions! I will try to keep up with this each month.