Q: How do I record game play? or How do I make a video?

A: There are a couple of ways to record gameplay to make a video. The easiest method is to simply point a video camera at the screen, going this route also makes it easy to narrate your video to explain what is going on. The camera should connect to your computer allowing you to save videos from your camera to your computer, or the camera should save to disk that can be read in a computer. If your camera does not have either of these features, a video capture card will be required. The other method is to purchase a video capture device and route the video through it. Using a capture card results in a higher quality video, but the equipment to do this can be expensive and doesn't have other uses besides capturing video. Adding narration to your video also requires a little knowledge of a video editing program.

Q: What file formats can I upload?

A: (From YouTube) YouTube accepts video files from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones in the .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats. We've found that files converted from .wmv to one of the other formats our webpage accepts generally have a lower playback quality than other file formats. If you have your source video in a format other than a .wmv file, I'd recommend encoding directly to MPEG4 (DivX, Xvid, SQV3) at 320x240, with 64k Mono MP3 Audio. If you have a source .wmv in high bitrate and larger resolution I'd recommend converting to MPEG4 at full resolution and then resizing to 320x240 using a high quality resizing algorithm - this can help reduce the number of artifacts you end up with.

Q: How do I submit a video?

A: First, make sure your video is hosted on YouTube. Second, be sure that you are logged in. Finally, click the Post a Video link.

A: No, if the video is on YouTube it can be submitted.