I thought I would start the post because I had a few questions, but I'll summarize for those who don't know about it.
BubbleBobbler has been planning to do a collaborative Any% Segmented run for awhile now, and submit it to SDA to replace K9's extremely old segmented run on there, however planning out a segmented run like that is a pain because saving throughout all of Los Santos is extremely slow, so it comes into question how many segments should even be done.
But there is another way, using a "Save Anywhere" mod (like http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=4002) we could insert a lot more segments into the game easily, at least for Los Santos. A mod like that simply lets you access the save menu from anywhere, the save files themselves are completely unmodded and you can open them in an unmodded game.
Anyway, I just wanted to ask (and make the answer public since its kind of important for those wanting to do it) how are we planning to record and edit it? Are we using lossless recording, such as FRAPS, and then just sending Bubble all the files who then edits it, or are we just using our standard streaming software to record which would be much lower (and differing) quality and then sending it to someone? Are we planning to all use the same video settings? Like Widescreen on/off and resolution, brightness etc...
I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of crazy things can be done with a segmented run, as I know there's quite a few crazy strats that could be used, I think someone needs to make a route doc or something though :P
re: recording settings it's down to whatever those who're interested agree on - I'd record on different settings purely because my aspect ratio makes a huge difference in quality in comparison to others, but I'm not too concerned with those details
I would rather see a segmented run of SA that uses the real save markers in game. But with this mod you can save a lot of time by not entering a building to set up for next segment.
The video files how would you share them? Would you send over the raw files from fraps or render them to a lower encoding before putting it together? 1 minute end up with a video file from 2 GB up to 5 GB with fraps depending on what game I record. So that is one thing to keep in mind for such a long run.
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