Fonzie forum - HELP ME PLEASE!!!

Hi everybody, I'm an italian director, i'm really interested to produce a machinima but, i have many problems..First i don't realyy understood by the site www.machinima.com how made machinima's and onestly 'n probably the guilt is for my english..not really good... So in italian is not possible to find some tutorial or specifics informations about realize a machinima's movie..i downloaded the machinima service pack..you know it's an archive zip file where i found many little programs MILKSHAPE VIRTUAL DUB TREAD3D etc.
In this pack there's, i think, a trial to approach about machinima using quake 2...but i have many problems to follow the indications i have, in a PDF doc.(only in english lang too) I asked help direcltly at the official site but i haven't answer..yet...20 days ago...I TELL EVERYBODY...HELP HELP ME..ANYONE HAD SOME PLEASURE OF ME...PLEASE HELP AND PLEASE let me approach this magnificent method to makes movies...

How use games to edit a locations ?
The camera movements...?
Can i use different graphics motors or different mods..?
WHy i don't understand this...? Cazzo!!!
Really i am so stupid...?? I've seen marvellous things..and i cannot do this. pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaassssseeeeeee

i've tried to download Iclone but...doesn't work

Machinima is basicly creating a movie using a computer game. We used the game Half-life, it's quite old but there's loads of tutorials and tons of example maps.

However, you shouldn't underestimate how much work it takes to create a machinima movie. Judging from your posts, you have little experience with map editing. So you might want to use existing maps.

We used people to act. Camera movents in level editing are pretty useless, so we filmed in-game using our mouse/keyboard to shoot the scenes.

You will need multiple persons to create a machima movie, you can start a game server with some "actors" and record scenes. If you're not a gamer, you will most likely encounter a lot of difficulties though.

to shoot these ingame clips we used a program called FRAPS which makes a direct .AVI of the scene.
Note. Alot of discspace is required because these files are big!

When you have this .avi you can use it in your movie, by using for example windowsmoviemaker (amateur program)

You put the voice recordings which you made underneath it and you've got yourself a movie (machinama)

Listen to teh Heero

ok...thanks everybody...so i will try with FRAPS...than i launch any game and with this program i can record the scenes...right...?

fraps work but the registration is not very good...there are many interruptions that compromize the quality...i hope you understand me...please answer me. tnx

which game do you use?

Game Cam is an alternative to fraps. I don't have any experience with this program, but it seems promising