Jan 4
Fable 2 Marathon
Hello and welcome to the first official project of 2009, the Fable 2 Marathon. Joining the full cast this time we have special guests FSR Ghost and none other than Dark Elf.
Now for the bad news. Fable 2 seems to be inconsistent with its frame rate at times (normally lots of grass, the title screen and other random things). When this happens the audio/video sync is lost and there is a minor video glitch. I will be doing my best in editing to undo the damage. I have confirmed that the cause of the problems is Fable 2 itself and not anything wrong with the capture equipment/settings.
Putting that aside I am proud to announce that this marathon will be available in HPAW’s new HD format.
Fable 2 Marathon Part 1 (HD/720P) [60:22m]: Download Fable 2 Marathon Part 1 (SD/iPod) [60:21m]: DownloadPart 1:
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HD Test 5: The Unofficial Chirstmas Episode
Merry Christmas everyone!
Thats right people the return of the unofficial episode, this time in the form of the final HD test.
Teclis and Biske join me (Mempf) as we play online matchmaking followed by the just voted game of the year Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
This test’s goal is to simulate an actual HPAW episode. We know not everyone wants the HD version so the old format (which can be put straight onto any iPod/iPhone and most other devices) will remain but look even better than before. And please people do not try to stream the episodes in a quicktime player in your browser. If this occurs please instead right click on the download link and choose save as.
Hope you enjoy.
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Dec 21
UPDATE: HD Testing
While I have not yet decided whether or not HPAW will go HD I have started my testing now that I have the new HD capture card in my possession.
Over the course of the next week I will be uploading a series of public video tests to both the HPAW server and to YouTube. Any and all feedback would be appreciated.
HD Test 4:
Audio is now working with direct game capture. Getting this all to work with the HPAW microphone is next on the list.
Check out the flip at 4:07
The bitrate on HD Test 3 is higher than required resulting in a larger file size. Future tests will hopefully be smaller with little to no quality loss.
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Dec 3
HPAW December 3rd: Dead Space
UPDATE: Part 2 is now available.
Some of you may have guessed that this was coming from the previous HD test and the talk in the Fallout Marathon. Well here it is the Dead Space episode with hopefully improved (though not HD) quality. Capture was done with the PC version of the game and capture from PC which has proven problematic in the past. (Seems great this time)
I have also started a Twitter account for HPAW which I will try to update at least once per day.
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Dec 1
HPAW HD Testing
Some of you may have noticed that I have uploaded two high definition test videos to YouTube in order to test the new “fmt=22″ format (aka 720P). These tests do not mean that HPAW will be presented in high definition. In fact they pretty much mean the opposite. I have found that processing time is over 4x longer for HD content and the files sizes will be in the multiples of gigabytes. It would likely take over 24 hours to get a video from filming to online if we filmed in HD as opposed to the current 3-5 hours.
HPAW in HD:
In other news the Gears of War Marathon is now back on the server and downloadable in its original WMV format.
6 commentsNov 18
Feedback: Improvements
Well no matter how busy I get I always love to add new features or make improvments to HPAW and now if your chance to make a difference.
Please leave a comment with what you think would make the HPAW site or videos themselves better. From something new to fixing something that does not work quite right.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT FOR GAME REQUESTS!!! (Bans will be given out Dattebayo style)
19 commentsNov 14
Fallout 3 Marathon: Final Thoughts
UPDATE: Full marathon downloadable via Bittorrent
Well this concludes our Fallout 3 Marathon but we have only scratched the surface into this huge game so pick it up if you liked what you saw.
In this bonus video we have some fun and give our impressions of the game.
3 commentsNov 9
Fallout 3 Marathon Completed
Yesterday we completed the filming of our Fallout 3 Marathon. We now have over 12 hours of game footage.
We have taken some the the suggestions and comments given to us in this past week (even World) and I have increased the video bitrate, raising the quality level but making the files a little larger. What does this mean to people you watch on Youtube, most likely nothing, download the high quality ones. Just right-click and and select save as or save target as depending on your browser.
Fallout 3 Marathon Part 8 [59:17m]: Download Fallout 3 Marathon Part 9 [59:17m]: Download Fallout 3 Marathon Part 10 [59:17m]: Download Fallout 3 Marathon Part 11 [59:28m]: Download Fallout 3 Marathon Part 12 [59:49m]: Download
