Bungies Render-to-Video service goes Live

I’m a day late on this one, but nonetheless, Bungies Render-to-Video service went live yesterday as part of the Bungie Day “festivities” (For lack of a better word). Bungie’s Render to Video service has finally gone live, after being in Beta for quite some time.

Currently, only Bungie Pro subscribers can take advantage of this feature. Each month, a Bungie Pro subscriber gets five render minutes alloted to them. These render minutes do not roll over to the next month. With these render minutes, it’s a case of “Use ‘em or lose ‘em”. However, you can buy additional minutes if you need to (10 Render minutes for 100 Microsoft Points, which is just a few pence). These render minutes that you purchase DO roll over. You can check out Bungies explanation of the system here.

Below is a test of the Render to Video service. You can watch it in the embeddable player below, or you can watch it in HD here. I have to say that the quality is pretty amazing. Just to clarify, this is not a video that I have rendered. This is a clip by somebody else:

This is certainly a useful service, and is something that fans have been asking for since Halo 3 was released. That said, it may be cheaper to just buy a Capture Card, which would be more versatile than Bungies service. That said, however, you would need a pretty decent PC to encode those videos as well.

If you just want to share clips of some awesome gameplay footage on the Internet, this is certainly a useful service. It’s pretty cheap as well when you consider how much technical horsepower is required for this. Certainly a good incentive to get Bungie Pro if you don’t already.

~ by pokeh on July 8, 2009.