MKWii TAS Competition - BEHIND THE SCENES (Task 13, 2021)

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Kierio04

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Published on August 26, 2021 7:45:12 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZBctufyeOQ

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Mario Kart Wii (2008)

Duration: 10:35

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Check out the video that is the prime focus of this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8X3g5hj2A

I've been wanting to do this style of a video for a long time now. Ever since Task 13 happened with such a success I've had this in my plans but didn't have the chance to actually make the video since I was preoccupied with not having a computer and being behind on other projects. That being said, I put this before task 14 results, and you are all quite lucky that I did that because I could run out of time and technology to make videos again at any point :o

0:00 Planning the Task
0:22 Revealing the Task
0:53 Running the Task
2:05 Preparing for the Stream
2:22 The Stream
5:01 After the Stream
5:18 The Lost VOD
5:28 Making the Result Video
9:22 The Premiere

There are two things I want to talk about further in this description. First, the significance of running the task at all: I was going to be on holiday for the majority of the task's running length, so got my run completed in the first two days, before stopping at the Flap BKT time perfectly. I then timed all the runs via the iPhone's mobile downloads folder on Files, transferring the RKGs (ghosts) over to http://tt-rec.com/ghostmanager to get the lap 1 times out of them. If I hadn't done this then we likely would have had a much harder time being able to picture what was going on as more and more people submitted, and it wouldn't have been as enjoyable as it was that way.

Secondly, the timelapse shown at the end of the video. I recorded 15 hours of footage on OBS over the span of 3 days (in my time zone, the 24th-26th of August, i.e. the previous 3 days before today), which was then sped up 240x in order to be crunched down to a length of less than 4 minutes. It may seem like a lot of weird stuff but here's a full run down of what I am doing and why:

[DAY 1]
1. I replace the SNES Mario Circuit 3 track file (using WiiScrubber) with the custom version from the task in order to be able to play back the ghosts for recording
2. I open Dolphin a few times before and after opening WiiScrubber. I had to close it first because I didn't have the correct track file, then because I realised I had the wrong cosmetic codes activated/deactivated, and finally because I had the wrong graphics settings
3. I play through (whilst simultaneously dumping frames and audio) all of the top 10 submissions using WhatIsLoaf's Advanced Live Replay ghost race code (thereby creating the ghost comparisons you see in the video)
[DAY 2]
4. Very brief and difficult to spot - I realise that I was recording on Dolphin 5.0 (even with the trick to get Sony VEGAS to deal with the xvid codec, my desktop refuses to accept 5.0 recordings) and try to convert as much of the original framedump as possible without significant quality reduction (I ended up downloading a free trial of Wondershare UniConverter, which allowed me to save 30% of the original framedump - or 10th through 8th's runs)
5. I then open Dolphin 4.0-8572, change a few settings, and do a slightly more effective version of the same recording process I did with Dolphin 5.0 (I only thought of it when doing this, so it's the first time I've done it, which is why I didn't do it on the 5.0 recording). I set 2 base savestates for bullet bike and mach bike, then go back and set up the advanced live replay ghost/player selections, before setting 7 savestates for 7th through 1st's runs. I then start dumping frames and audio and load each savestate one by one, recording each then moving to the next one. This technique saved about 1 or 2 hours.
6. After doing this, I realise I overwrote the audio from the 10th-8th recording, and so duplicated the dspdump for 7th-1st and went in to record the audio for the bottom 3 runs.
7. I finally edit the video. First I sync up all of the audio and video files and cut out unnecessary bits, then I put in the intro and outro text (via a quick trip to noclip for the custom camera angles), and then I put in the placing and ghost counter overlays on
8. I edit the comparison section at the end. I have got better at doing this ever since Task 5 after I learned how to speed up the process using grouping of video and audio files to keep things constantly synced up. I choose the "GO!" frame as a reference point of syncing up all 4 runs then put the text and other effects on afterwards. This time, I chose to do two new things (the 50% slowdown and the 4 names instead of the "1 2 3 4", both of which I checked and referred to the SM64 TAS competition briefly for)
9. I render the video (I ate dinner and watched a film with family during this 5 hour period). It finished earlier than I expected because the computer was accounting for 3 minutes of extra footage where there was actually blank video (I didn't know about this until the premiere)
10. I write the description and make the thumbnail
[DAY 3]
11. I participate in the premiere

Music: Panman14 - Mario Circuit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWf_TDlD_y4)

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