[Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT

[Lightning_Dolt]

Which settings do you mean?

[nme]

video settings, resolution, ect

[Kaitscralt]

I can teach you a trick to use free Camtasia forever without having to resub free trials with new emails

[hamfactorial]

Anyone with experience using FFSplit to record MODO for Youtube? I'm recording in 720P but my youtube videos are coming out shitty. I'm sure there is a setting I missed somewhere. A video for reference:

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

Help?

Your video doesn't necessarily look shitty, but I think you have something odd going on with respect to native resolution / aspect ratios.

Step 1: Native Resolution

The first thing you need to determine is whether you want to record in 1080p or 720p, or something higher if you're a maniac. Check out this page for a visual of the various resolutions.

Streaming services like Twitch or broadcast services like YouTube usually have restrictions on the format of the video they will accept. I've only used Twitch, so check with YouTube specifically for resolution / frame rate restrictions.

In FFSplit, go to Options > Encoder tab.

The Video Resolution option sets the base resolution for your recording. I record in 1080p, so I set it to 1920x1080. I also set it to 30 frames / second, which is a standard capture rate for mild games. Twitch caps the video bitrate at 3500 kbps, so I set it there.

Step 2: Capture Window Resolution

Download the standalone program Sizer. Sizer allows you to create presets and resizes windows automatically to the specifies preset resolution and position on-screen. I have a preset called "MTGO - 1540x1040" that resizes a window to 1540x1040, then aligns it to the left edge of the screen.

All the hard work you've done will mean nothing if you're sloppy with your game capture. To capture MTGO using the v4 client, you need to set it to "Capture Window", select the MTGO main client, check the "Only Client Area" option, "Show Mouse Cursor", and "Capture as Region". These options allow the sub-windows that MTGO creates to be captured, along with the mouse cursor in-game.

In the FFSplit main window, click on the MTGO capture window and notice that the "Layer" frame has some settings. That Sizer preset we used now comes in handy here. Set the Width and Height to match the setting you set in Sizer for the MTGO window. The X/Y are the offsets from the top (0) and left (0) edge of the screen. If you want a full screen 1080p MTGO window, your settings would be X:0, Y:0, Width:1920, Height:1080.

In my case, I have a custom streaming background with some sub-windows, so I use X:20, Y:20, Width:1540, Height:1040.

It's important that your game capture window has the exact same resolution in FFSplit that your window does on your monitor. I expect that the blurring you're seeing on your stream is because of up-scaling or down-scaling. This occurs when you have a small window that you stretch to fit a higher resolution. It will blur the areas between the pixels. It's always better to record and stream at the resolution you intend to show for your viewers.

Step 3: Stream Dat Ass

Start your stream or start the recording, then stop after 30 seconds. Watch your playback at the intended resolution to verify that your stream looks sharp and is sized correctly.

[Self Medicated]

Ham's making the world a better place.

[BlakLanner]

Holy fuck, that new Narset is insane.

[Self Medicated]

Yeah, just saw that. 6 fucking loyalty? Damn.

Thank the gods for Glare of Heresy.

[hamfactorial]

Ham's making the world a better place.

He's on Facebook still talking about it, I wonder when he'll come back to find that I've dropped the holy grail into his greedy lap.

Damned Canadians!

[LP, of the Fires]

Ham's making the world a better place.

He's on Facebook still talking about it, I wonder when he'll come back to find that I've dropped the holy grail into his greedy lap.

Damned Canadians!

[Midnight_v]

New set seems... good. I've never been remotely a story guy, but its weird that the cards don't have much flavor text. Guess I'll have to wait till the end of the spoiler.

Thunderbreak reagent. I'm curious as to building a fires of yavimaya style midrange hasted deck. So maybe red/x skies can be just great from right there with dragon tempest.
One of the things I couldn't stand about the ashcloud phoenix is that it lacked haste. I'm not sure how much of a deck can be built around it just from such little info but as long as the cards are decent enough without the Dragon tempest in play it should be an awesome block deck at least.

Also... that lightning berserker, Dick = Diamonds.

[Khaospawn]

Stonewright's older, pissed off brother has come looking to skin some rhinos.

[LP, of the Fires]

4 Thunderbreak Regeant
4 Monastery Swiftsper
4 Mardu Scout
4 Dragon Fodder
4 Goblin Rabblemaster
4 Hordeling Outburst

4 Outpost Siege
1 Purphoros
4 Stoke the Flames
4 Lightning Strike/Wild Slash

23 Mountain

[hamfactorial]

I love Lightning Berserker in both Dos Rakis and Mana Sink Deck Wins. Woooo!

[hamfactorial]

AKA the X-2 All-Stars

[Kaitscralt]

it's crap

[rcwraspy]

for a small curve red aggro deck, the new one-drop is ok. not great, not even stonewright good, but ok if no other one drop comes along. Having a late-game mana sink in these decks is great protection against flooding out, but this new card is really actually early-game mana sink when we have better uses for our mana already.

Narset seems insane but maybe I'm just not getting past 4cmc 6 starting loyalty.

[Khaospawn]

Berserker- good on turn 1, awesome on later turns.

[LP, of the Fires]

Thunder regent is awesome. If they have no board, in the lategame, it's actually just blaze. Same thing if you just want to wack people post drown in sorrow.

[TBuzzsaw]

There has to be a good vagina joke with Berserker, cuz if that's not a glowing vaj behind her then I don't know what it is.

[rcwraspy]

Berserker- good on turn 1, awesome on later turns.

If you're keeping the board clear it's good but win-more. Otherwise it's just too fragile. No evasion, dies in combat with anything, and you're behind curve pumping it if you're dashing. I think it's playable but I don't think it's anything to get excited about.

[Khaospawn]

Berserker- good on turn 1, awesome on later turns.

If you're keeping the board clear it's good but win-more. Otherwise it's just too fragile. No evasion, dies in combat with anything, and you're behind curve pumping it if you're dashing. I think it's playable but I don't think it's anything to get excited about.

They said the same thing about Stonewright. Now look where they are. DEAD!

[rcwraspy]

Berserker- good on turn 1, awesome on later turns.

If you're keeping the board clear it's good but win-more. Otherwise it's just too fragile. No evasion, dies in combat with anything, and you're behind curve pumping it if you're dashing. I think it's playable but I don't think it's anything to get excited about.

They said the same thing about Stonewright. Now look where they are. DEAD!

I thought you might say that. I loved Stonewright, but the beauty of that card wasn't that you could attack with him (of course you could) but that he pumped your larger threat that came down later in the game, or perhaps you dropped him the turn after your larger threat, had plenty of mana open to pump, etc. It was rarely Stonewright the card that killed your opponent but rather the soulbond target. Berserker doesn't benefit from that and needs to do all the work itself with a 1-butt.

I think this card is more like what Viashino Firstblade would be if the ETB trigger gave +2/+0 rather than 2/2.

[pikachufan2164]

I think this card is more like what Viashino Firstblade would be if the ETB trigger gave +2/+0 rather than 2/2.

So, Minotaur Skullcleaver?

[rcwraspy]

I think this card is more like what Viashino Firstblade would be if the ETB trigger gave +2/+0 rather than 2/2.

So, Minotaur Skullcleaver?

Sure. About that power level.

[Khaospawn]

Nobody has to tell anybody in this clan how Stonewright worked.

[Khaospawn]

Also, 2 Stonewrights bonded to each other was far from considered rare.

[rcwraspy]

Nobody has to tell anybody in this clan how Stonewright worked.

Then don't pretend this card is analogous.

[rcwraspy]

love ya Khaos, but I just don't see it. Wouldn't mind being wrong though - I like red, after all

[Khaospawn]

If you have a point to make, raspy, I'd love to hear it.

[rcwraspy]

? Didn't I already state it?

[Khaospawn]

No.

[Valdarith]

New Stonewright is insane.

[Khaospawn]

Just don't pretend to be androgynous.

[Jack]

I'm surprised it took them that long to print a fire-breathing one drop. Still, it looks an awful lot like Archwing Dragon. Not a very easy card to evaluate.

[rcwraspy]

No.

I think the card might be playable but my initial take is that it's on the bad side of playable.

[Khaospawn]

I believe it will see play.

[Khaospawn]

WoTC prints one little innocuous 1 drop and the FoS turn on each other.

[Khaospawn]

It's like something out of Spam's incoherent ramblings.

[LP, of the Fires]

I think it'll see play and I think it's good, but I don't think it's as good as stonewright and I don't think it'll matter for a while. This format just seems to hostile to what this card is trying to do.

[Khaospawn]

Yeah, right now he's competing in a world filled with monkey-goblin tokens.