Sunday, October 5, 2008

We need your help! Really.

I received an email from Tia Marie of JTV informing us that the way they archive old broadcasts is going to change. The new policy states that JTV will only archive the last 14 days of our broadcasts. Also, that all highlights and episodes of the older footage will be savable. We expect you guys to do a great job of continuing to cut and save great clips every night.

With that said, we are about to lose a ton of 4player Podcast history over on Justin.tv. We care about saving our old stuff, but we cannot do all of this on our own. So if you want to cut anything from the old archives from over 14 days ago since we started streaming in February, you need to cut it and save it as a highlight before October 6th. After October 6th, it will all be gone. We are hoping you will all find the best footage, but we need a few things for the sake of archive quality.

1. Giant 1 hour long multi-part play sessions of big games help maintain our history. These are great and give new viewers the chance to become familiar with the old stuff.

2. If you are going to cut out shorter clips, try to keep them under 10 minutes so we can send them to Youtube.

3. Properly title the clips! State the game name and who is playing; and if it is a big episode, then list the part number. This is very important for people who are wading through all of our old clips. It also helps big when sending stuff to Youtube. Example: Brad plays Fatal Frame 1: Part 3. Or: Nick PWND by a bum (Condemned 2).


Also, to help with this community project, we have the great benefit of the Wiki school and chronodarkx have been working on. The have listed every game played on the feed and who played it day by day since August 2nd. This is an extremely valuable tool for this project and a great site all together. Here is the Wiki and here is the link to all played games.

Thanks to anyone who can help in this community project. Your help is very much appreciated.


Brad

9 comments:

aznboy92 said...

yay I have something else to distract myself from homework! making highlights of loads of stuff from the archives and hopefully not making copies of the same ones already posted...

Organ Grinder said...

I've used the Video Download Helper Firefox extension to save some of my favorite clips from the archive and youtube.

Get it here
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

It creates a small "molecule" button between the Home and URL bar in your Firefox Browser.

After you load the archive clip video you will see that "molecule" swirling about when it detects an .flv video that you can save to your hard-drive.

Don't click on the icon itself! That will only bring up the site list and content filter.

Click the little arrow on the right side of the "molecule" to open the dropdown list of what content you can save with it.

evilplans said...

hmmm Brad for some reason I don't think this is a good idea. If you put old clips such as Condemned, Fatal Frame, and GTA on Youtube. Then youtubers will come here and think that 4PP is still playing those games. So game request spam would highly increase. It's awesome and all that you want to save the memories but I dont know if putting the videos on youtube would be a great idea. But hey thats just a thought

Cocyx The Skeleton said...

too bad making clips is broken

E. Grey said...

I think I may be able to upload all of the highlights onto a Veoh account that could be updated by a 4PP member (when more videos are added). I'm testing it right now, if it ends up working, I'll post my results on the forums. I'm going to focus on getting entire playthroughs on to Veoh before messing with highlights though, 'cause those can usually be moved into a Youtube account.

-Elizabeth
Skyliner12

Ninfoo said...

I will learn to make Highlights and help you Brad :D

Anonymous said...

Already made a bunch of episodes that aren't recent. :D

Tchuwib said...

organ grinder, thank for that firefox add-on info. It's really great. That way I can keep good clip. And for highligh, we can try our best, but I asume elizabeth got a good idear.

evilplans said...

ok just put up a Dead Rising episode..i think only brad and david know about it lol