Capturing Great Footage for Game Trailers

[@MAVATTACK]

This was vital for me establishing where I’ll be taking my career path. As someone who comes from a film background, ridiculous editing experience, & who is also extremely dedicated to gaming, I’ll be practicing and honing this craft. Thank you to Derek for the insight and GDC for uploading this. 🙏

[@DerekLieu]

Wow, you’re very welcome! ❤️

[@ooooswain]

Same. Have you got any professional trailer work in 3 years?

[@Lunareon]

Came for the facts, stayed for the cats. Seriously though, what an awesome, detailed talk on the technical aspects of making good game trailers. This talk, combined with his 2019 GDC talk "Trailer Made: What Makes a Successful and Memorable Game Trailer" contain literally all the essential information for making good (game) trailers. Thank you for sharing your expertise and cats!

[@DerekLieu]

Thanks so much for watching! 😸🙏🏼

[@kcabra115]

awesome talk, my favorite thing is how his examples range from AAA to indie games

[@DerekLieu]

Thank you!

[@DOSRetroGamer]

Unbelievably helpful!

[@Prim12398]

Wow one presentation and you can learn so much. Great video.

[@noncom]

Thank you for the talk. I learn some very usefull tips in here.

[@AwkwardSpecimens]

Pro Tip: A photo of a cat ALWAYS improves a slide show.

[@Moonz97]

Great talk, thanks! You can tell he loves cats :)

[@DerekLieu]

Thanks! I do love them so :3

[@sirdiealot7805]

Derek Lieu, the Jackie Chan of game trailers.

[@DerekLieu]

Sir Diealot Except instead of broken bones I have old project files where media won’t relink 🤪

[@afewdragons]

Thank you as always.

[@johnx140]

26:42 goddamnit

[@georgehall7749]

Amazing Talk!

[@cellatim94]

Saying league of legends, but showing dota is a dangerous gamble sir!

[@DerekLieu]

lol, oops 😳 Though maybe that proves my point that those games are super hard to decipher 😅

[@cellatim94]

@@DerekLieu ahah makes sense 😅 Great talk btw. Learned a lot from it.

[@pierrestempin100]

Salty game is salty game 😀

[@ShrikeGFX]

Vegas Movie Studio on steam is very inexpensive and far easier than Adobe Premiere, can recommend

[@theheroesofether7300]

Interesting

[@comigogames]

(A talk about trailers and game footage) (Examples are tiny gifs that are extremely hard to see in KZbin quality on phone screen)

[@DerekLieu]

lol, yep

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

Wait where is the part about inserting incredibly stilted and fake coop dialogue into your trailers?

[@DerekLieu]

I didn’t have enough time to include that section 🤪

[@TreyMotes]

WTF is he talking about with OBS files needing to be converted? Just save the vid as mp4...

[@DerekLieu]

I think at the time whenever people sent me files captured via OBS they were always in .flv format :/

[@taguetrash]

@@DerekLieu Ah, the annoying default. (Awesome list of capture and editing resources btw!)

[@DerekLieu]

@@taguetrash Glad you've enjoyed them! The technical stuff is not so up to date, but hopefully the mind set ideas are evergreen 😅

[@TreyMotes]

@@DerekLieu that's always been changeable. It's simply the default setting.

[@DerekLieu]

Trey M If only me from two years ago had known 😛

[@InfiniteHole]

Hi GDC, here is Rodrigo, producer of Shadows of Kepler ❤️ Take a look on our game later. Thx