I made a small video of Virtual Villagers for youtube.com

This was my first attempt to make a video, I hope I will improve when I make the preview of VV2. I am also curious to see if I can embed the video here on the forums and if you all can see it.

Video worked fine for me.

I wish i could start with 25 people lol. Did you a video capture tool or something like premiere? If you convert the movie to Xvid you can considerably shrink the file size to 10 meg or under and also you can then embed it in flash and use it on the website and the only thing a person needs is flash player regardless of what the original format was . We used this where i work as a method of making a promotional CD of company products. The whole CD done in flash with 8 videos ranging from 1 - 2 minutes each was only 75 meg with full audio and music.

I actually considered doing something similar once to demonstrate speed breeding etc but didnt have my website hosted at the time.

Yeah. My video i think is around 9MB and it's 4 minutes long. I used the trial version of Camtasia Video and then edited it with Windows Movie Maker. The nice thing is that you can embed the video in many places (like websites, etc). Infact I put it up on our website page http://www.virtualvillagers.com/anewhome/index.html
I wonder if I can put it also on documents...I will try now.

documents i myself am not even sure. Edit: I shouldn't say not sure i know you can in powerpoint, and since its microsoft i imagine the same method would work in word and similar applications from microsoft but i never tried. But yes Camtasia works pretty good. I had another one called Screen Capture i think or something id have to look in my application archive but it worked good too. Windows movie maker is like the golden chalice, its so simple to use and i love its basic editing capabilities for small clips. I make home movies when i take trips on my camcorder and edit them with movie maker all the time. The only thing i've found you cant capture from your desktop is Streaming video be it DVD or from a website. It just shows up black space, the audio from the clip on the other hand....

yes it's great and gives a good idea of the game to those who don't know!

I sure liked the sneak peak into the sandbox version of Isola!

Excellent Carla !! Aren't you so careful when you place your villagers where you want them to be. Me ?? I dump the little twerps and hope they learn a lesson - but they never do. I did notice near the end you unceremoniously dropped your villager into the ocean - frightened of sharks were you ?? Gosh here am I just learning about screen captures and editing pics, but now I know what I can look forward to after I have mastered that.

Worked fine

Kinda funny when you showed about 10 seconds of villagers being dumped on each other to no avail . But I think that if I saw that clip I'd definatly want to at least try VV (and of course when I tried it, I'd want to buy it).

Not enough housing Carla...lol. Good promo video, should peak some interest.