Thursday, September 30, 2010

All is well

Filming's been going pretty smooth, this morning I finished editing episode 2 of HRF. Episode 1 should be viewable to our youtube audience within the week, and you'll probably see episode 2 by Wednesday.

I must say I am quite impressed with the forging community, there are a lot of unique maps out there that we really can't wait to show you guys.

-Cameron

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Halo Reach Forges (Ep. 1) "*censored*"

Halo Reach Forges' first episode has been shot! And in HD!

Unfortunately I had to make a trip out of town this weekend, so I won't be able to upload the video until Sunday night at the earliest.

Chris Neir (CMNeir) made us a new intro to Halo Reach Forges, which looks very awesome. At the end of our "Traveling to Reach" video you'll see a snippet of it.

We're very excited to show off our first episode, we think you guys will really enjoy it. Until then, go make forges!

-Cameron

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Cards, Money, Maps, and Skits

My new capture card arrived the other day. Unfortunately I need to purchase another piece of software to make it work to it's fullest level, this piece of software costing me about $80. Good thing though, is that we just received our payment from Machinima, so I should be able to cover it.

SO! Filming, we've been doing it.

As we always do when transitioning to another mainstream game, we've filmed an introduction to Halo: Reach. In this we'll have some skits about our transition into the new game, and a preview of what's to come on Halo Reach Forges.

Filming on a new capture card has been... Interesting. I've been using a demo version of some software to film, so it's actually been quite a hassle since it will only film 2 minutes at a time. Once I get the software I need, things will go smoother.

As for maps on Halo Reach, we've been finding some pretty amazing ones. We've even made one ourselves. Foolishly of us, we deleted someone's map to make a canvas because we were too lazy to start a new game, and made that map on it. As we quickly found out, Bungie fixed the whole "stealing maps" problem, and now when you make a map, your name is permanently marked on it. So though we deleted this map completely, his name is still on it.
Whatever, we'll still feature it.

I think everyone will enjoy HRF very much, the maps are quite amazing. I'm gonna try and finish up this intro skit today, and tonight we'll probably film our first episode of HRF.

Later guys,

-Cameron

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Yay for mail... Not Really...

Hey guys,

So, remember how I said I ordered a new capture card? Well, I decided on a different one due to the fact that my Mac does not support USB3.

That being somewhat irrelevant, the package has not yet arrived. This has been due to my change in address, Amazon sent it to my original address, but now that I'm at college, I need to get it over here A.S.A.P.

I'm working to get it here quick, since Reach comes out in a week. But I don't know how it's gonna work out. One of two things will happen, we will either delay filming until it arrives, or we will film the first few episodes of Halo Reach Forges with our old capture card. We'll see.

Again, the earliest a new episode will be coming out is about a week after the release of Reach, and that's somewhat of a long shot since we have to film another short skit before starting on HRF. So we'll see, it's really a waiting/hoping game now. Regardless I will be getting my copy most likely at the midnight launch. See you all there!

-Cameron