How to record a first person vod in warcraft 3 frozen throne!

For this tutorial I am going to use unregistered Game Cam Lite, which is available for free and easiest to use. There will be no sound in this version of Game Cam and there will be a watermark in the lower right hand corner.

Installing Game Cam Lite

1. Download Game Cam Lite and install it. At the end of the installation, it will say something about game profiles and warcraft will not be there, don’t worry about it. Do not run Game Cam yet.

2. After installing, run Profile Manager Lite. Click New Profile and then the button with the 3 dots, “…”. Find your Warcraft III directory and select war3.exe, the same exe that you use for GGC. Click open. Profile Manager will create the war3 profile for you.

3. Still in the profile manager screen, click Hot Keys. For Warcraft 3, you will want to change serveral default hotkeys such as numberpad keys that are used for inventory slots and F1 and F2 for heroes. I suggest not setting a hotkey for most as you will not need them. To do this, click in the respective row’s right column under Hot Key and hit backspace. The Hot Key will clear and say (none). For record, I use F9 because Home acts like numpad-7 for me. Click close when you’re done.

4. Optionally, edit the advanced settings. If you’re using Game Cam Lite, you can’t turn on sound so don’t try. In Advanced Profile Settings you can change video brightness if you’re having problems with that. I recommend leaving the Video Frame Size at the default of 512×384. Larger frame sizes will significantly decrease your computer’s performance. For uploading to youtube, all you really need is 320×240, so if you have a slower computer you might want to actually lower the video frame size.

As a FYI, the 2nd vod I recorded against clash, I used a registered full Game Cam and Video Frame Size of 800×600 (and my PC felt it). The higher resolution was for uploading to stage 6. I will talk about uploading later.

5. Click Close. Game Cam should now be set up correctly.