Halo Reach--Bungie Pro--Video Rendering Pricing :(

Discussion in 'Halo and Forge Discussion' started by misterxboxnj, Sep 17, 2010.

  1. misterxboxnj

    misterxboxnj Ancient
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    The other day I saw someone's file share have a video you could download to WMV format on your computer. I thought this was cool because I could do the same and upload my videos to You Tube. So I created a map and recorded a fly through of the map to share with my friends. When I saved the video to my file share and went to download the map it told me I needed to upgrade to Bungie Pro to do this. It cost me 750 points (almost $10) to upgrade. I thought I was getting additional file share slots (which I did) and video rendering capabilities.

    So I go to Bungie's web site to down load my video and find out that I have 5 "render" minutes. My video is 3:07 seconds long...If I render the video in standard definition it will cost me 4 render minutes (way to round up!). And if I want to render the video in High Definition it will cost me 20 render minutes!

    https://www.bungie.net/account/products/addminutes.aspx
    Standard Definition Minutes are a 1:1 ratio
    High Definition Minutes are a 1:5 ration

    In order to do this I would have to order more minutes. 50 minutes costs $5. And, I looked at their pricing and they don't give pricing breaks for buying more minutes at the start.

    So basically, my wanting to post a video in Standard Definition just cost me $10....if I wanted to post High Def it would have cost me an additional $5 to buy more minutes.

    As much as I LOVE Reach, this pricing scheme seems ways over priced. Just wanted to warn anyone else before purchasing Bungie Pro for video posting purposes...there are a lot of extra costs involved.
     
  2. Cato IV

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    you get 5 minutes per month
     
  3. misterxboxnj

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    I guess that is a little better but I still think the pricing scheme is a little high.
     
  4. Oo iRoNy oO

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    Do the minutes transfer over to the next month if you don't use 'em?
     
  5. RaBBiiTTT

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    No.

    At OP, this belongs to Halo: Reach Discussion as this has nothing to do with Forge.
     
  6. DMM White

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    That's how things work in the real world. If I have 4.3 cakes and I can only put 1 cake in each box I will need 5 boxes. Rounding 4.3 gives you 4 but I can only get 1 cake in each box, not 1.3 cakes. You see?
     
  7. IH8YourGamerTag

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    yeah its always been like this. welcome to bungie pro.

    save your money and buy a capture card
     
  8. Prospect

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    Can't you just make a normal video and use something like a screen video recorder to "steal" back your video? *thumbs up for cybervandylism*
     
  9. Monolith

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    A capture card? That costs money. I don't believe there's any free version of a "screen video recorder". Nice try though :p

    I too had this problem when I first wanted to make a montage. I collected a years worth of clips, cut them down, named them, then went to Bungie's Render-To-Video service and found out I had to pay a crapload just to put them on youtube. So I found someone to capture in HD (I had to pay him Microsoft pts. tho) and.... well, he took a REALLLLLLYYYY long time (4 months to be exact) and I FINALLY got my montage up and only got a couple thousand views.

    The moral? If you plan on making youtube videos of your maps, BUY A CAPTURE CARD AND CAPTURE THEM YOURSELF. It's much easier. :D

    Plus, nowadays it's almost not even worth it. You pay money for a capture card, get a group of friends together, play your map, save your map, take different angles... or just record your POV, capture it, upload it, edit it, try to find music that youtube won't go crazy over, upload it.... then get close to no replies on the video.

    Anyways, that's just my own point of view. Do what you want.
     
    #9 Monolith, Sep 18, 2010
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