I love it! A few suggestions:

* Side by side might be better than one over the other. Most monitors are wider than they are tall.

* I miss the sounds. I would keep the audio from both replays, but of course turn off music.

* When creating the videos I'd give the player on the left a slight pan-left for the audio and the opposite for the player on the right.

* Show the production tab dood!

Thx! I tried side-by side but width of the videos actually take up more space on your 16:9 monitor. I have a TODO to make the replays dragable/dropable to where ever u want.

Cant do sounds cuz its from 2 diff persons perspectives. Also, I dont like the sounds :) I get better framerate w/ em off too.

will do on the production tab

If the video is configured on the left and right, then wouldn't it make (somewhat) sense to have the speaker channels of the two videos correspond to the left and right screens? As a longtime viewer of SC and SC2 games via video, double sound source doesn't bother me at all. (I remember footage from Korean TV from about 2004 that had first person view and first person sound from two players at once)

not a bad idea, will think about it

Since you have at least two videos showing, could you open the production tab on the first and the units tab on the second?

When uploading your replay, you have complete control over HUD options

How are you generating the video files then? Surely you cannot run a game of SC2 on an EC2 micro instance?

I imagine he has a regular desktop with a video card sitting there doing the work (especially if you look at the Improve page, he's asking for another video card or someone's spare box; it also mentions a queue, etc.).

This job is done by a Chinese "agency".

haha nope. I record it real time then encode.

It would be great if you could synthesize Day9's voice and autogenerate some commentary.

haha yea, I'll get right on that ;)

I posted this on teamliquid. People seem extremely excited. There are some suggestions going on there. I'm not sure if you know the teamliquid community. They're huge, very active and helpful. I'm sure you'll get some nice feedback there.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=356...

How does the replay conversion work? o_0

hard work and lots of problem solving - and a bit of magic :)

Having using "Pengiunplug" for things like replay FPView for Broodwar, definitely concur with the "a bit of magic" assessment.

I've always been fascinated by how many clever hacks come out of the SC community for adding features/functionality like this. A lot of the SC2 observer mode features were a product of hackers making plugins and utilities that enhanced the replay experience for Broodwar, so it's fun to think about what sorts of nice things will be made by such hackers going forward for SC2 :).

Some kind of algorithm for speeding up 'boring' segments is of course top of the list of features, perhaps something that allows the users to 'edit' the video. Great work!

Why the hell have you not posted this to /r/starcraft?!?

I have actually - a while ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft2/comments/t3ya3/feedback_o...

I haven't had time to improve it much since then. My plan is to post it here (and get a perspective from a diff audience, tech saavy but not my target). Once I iron out some more things, I'll post on reddit.

Hope you don't mind but I thought this was neat enough that I posted it myself before reading that you were not ready to yet.

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/x9uej/automatical...

No that's cool - it probably gets more "street cred" not coming from the author :)

I'll start replying to those reddit threads, thanks for doing this.

Doesn't seem very scalable. Unless you have a way to run and record multiple games on one machine.

If this gains some traction (aka $) I have ideas on how to scale it. I also have a theory for multiple on a machine, just haven't had time/resources to proof of concept it.