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::The thing with the first way is that it's the longest and hardest one, because it involves re-doing everything that was done for the English part of the wiki. You're free to do it if you want to, but I'd suggest gathering other people to help you along, because it is a very long task (took me months). | ::The thing with the first way is that it's the longest and hardest one, because it involves re-doing everything that was done for the English part of the wiki. You're free to do it if you want to, but I'd suggest gathering other people to help you along, because it is a very long task (took me months). | ||
::In the meantime, I've been working on a subtitling tool (you can see it [http://theportalwiki.com/subtitle/ here]) which will allow us to make captions for sections of the video, associate them with a sound file, and from that map it to other languages. So what can be done is to use the third way (english with russian subtitles), then as the real Russian walkthrough progresses, replace videos with it. Does that sound like a good plan? — [[User:WindPower|Wind]] 23:58, 29 July 2011 (UTC) | ::In the meantime, I've been working on a subtitling tool (you can see it [http://theportalwiki.com/subtitle/ here]) which will allow us to make captions for sections of the video, associate them with a sound file, and from that map it to other languages. So what can be done is to use the third way (english with russian subtitles), then as the real Russian walkthrough progresses, replace videos with it. Does that sound like a good plan? — [[User:WindPower|Wind]] 23:58, 29 July 2011 (UTC) | ||
:::Yes? It's good idea. I've recorded a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDayHXyy9xc . Is it good walkthrough video? | :::Yes? It's good idea. I've recorded a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDayHXyy9xc . Is it good walkthrough video? [[User:Alexander|Alexander]] 21:17, 30 July 2011 (UTC) | ||
:::[[User: | ::::Keep in mind that someone who needs a walkthrough of Portal 1 more than 4 years after its release is likely to be a person very new to video games. Because of that, it is important to make the walkthrough easy to understand and follow; that is why, on the Portal 2 walkthrough, all the camera movements are very slow (it makes it easier to follow). To an experienced gamer, this style of movement does look slow, but that's okay. So, in other words: Move the mouse slowly. | ||
::::Another thing is pacing: it is important to move kind of slowly and give an overview of each room you enter. This is for several reasons: | |||
::::* It will be easier for someone to know which room you are in (since you look around the room) | |||
::::* It will be easier to follow | |||
::::* YouTube's thumbnails for a video are a choice between the image at 25% of the video, 50% of the video, or 75% of the video. If you take looks around the room as yu enter them, there is a higher chance that one of youtube's video thumbnails will be one of those moments, which will make a nice video thumbnail (Just a little bonus, hehe) | |||
::::* For test chambers, make sure you stare at the information panel (where it says the test chamber number) for at least 3 seconds | |||
::::Last but not least is graphics quality. First, make sure to record videos with a resolution of ratio 16:9 (1280x720 preferably, or 1920x1080 if you can). This will make sure that the video occupies the entire video player, instead of having those black bars on the left and the right like this video has. Also, you can try to record at a higher graphics quality if you can, so that it looks better. If you can't, that's okay, but most importantly make sure it still looks smooth. | |||
::::Thanks, and good luck :3 — [[User:WindPower|Wind]] 21:36, 30 July 2011 (UTC) | |||