Making Highlights For TSSB

We try to keep the highlights between 1 and 2 minutes.  As a rule of thumb, that's usually like 3-6 clips that are 20-30 seconds each, but it's pretty flexible so do whatever seems appropriate for the game.  Sometimes we don't think there's much material for a game, but we do want to show at least something, so we just do a single 30-40 second clip as the highlight.

We color-code the entries in the document.  The ones we color Gray are the ones we don't plan to show a highlight for (either because we've shown it a lot before or we dont want to stop and say much about the game).   The Green and Pink ones are the ones PJ and Feasel have volunteered to do.  Of the remaining entries, they'are all fair game so just pick whatever you like.

Mark the entries you plan to do either Purple or Medium-Blue (the 2nd or 4th ones from the right on the pallete), since i think that's the only colors we're not using that are still dark enough to read.

The entries may start out Blue (instead of Black) if somebody has given us timestamps or a specific clip that they want us to show, so those are easy.  Look either in the run comments or in the right-most column of the sheet for info on what to highlight.  Sometimes we forget to mark stuff blue when we add it, so check the comments just in case.

The ones that have youtube links are the easiest ones.  Browser plugins like Download Helper will work on those.  They download in mp4 format, so those are easy to work with.

The ones that are on twitch, you can use the twitch downloader tool.  http://speedrun.tv/videos.php?channel=feasel

These come out in FLV format so depending on your editing software you might need something like Handbrake to convert it before working with it.

The downloader link above only works with the original broadcast (links that contain "/b/").  Twitch highlights (links that contain "/c/") can not be downloaded directly, by any means.  If you want to download a twitch highlight, you need to figure out what date the highlight was made (which you can see if you look at the list of highlights, like http://twitch.tv/feasel/videos) and then go find the original broadcast from that date, find the range of time where the WR run happens, and then download the appropriate half-hour chunks of the broadcast using http://speedrun.tv/videos.php?channel=feasel

Making highlight clips out of runs that are Twitch highlights is a lot of work.  So if there's not enough time to go through all that to download the run, what we sometimes do instead is play the twitch highlight out of a web browser during the broadcast (but only if duckfist is running the broadcast, since feasel's and PJ's computers can not handle that).  For these play-from-browser videos we color the entry Orange in the spreadsheet.  We also pick out a range of timestamps to play (just a single clip, typically 30-90 seconds depending on the game) and write that timestamp-range in the rightmost column of the spreadsheet so duckfist knows where to play from.

For the ones that you download and edit normally (the youtube and original-broadcast twitch runs) upload everything to the FTP into the folder for that episode (like "/e49").  Typically we name the files something like:  wr_super-mario-world.mp4  or wr_zelda2-100pct.mp4

After you've finished making the video and you're uploading it (or about to upload it), color the entry in the spreadsheet Red so duckfist will know that there's supposed to be a video.