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[Japo]

Originally Posted by Japo

As for the technical details, I guess one could record the game and a synchronous audio track at the same time with a mic. Then we just need to merge the additional audio track onto the video--although I don't know what program can do that.

OK so Windows Movie Maker can do this all right. Moreover you have the additional option to record your speech in MMaker after the clip is made, if you prefer that to speaking while you record it (although you may have recorded the video faster than you can explain it, if you made no planning). Also you can leave the audio track of the original clip superposed with your added speech, or not, and tune both volumes as you wish. Yay!

So it's easily feasible. As for the practical details, I'd recommend writing a script or outline of the points to cover in advance of the recording, and even make more than one take if necessary. This way you can do it in the 10 minutes (or 20...) YouTube limit, and more importantly you'll save History any indecent rambling, which we'd all no doubt indulge in, if we tried to make this kind of thing right off the bat.

I may make a first clip one of these days when I have time, and showcase it as a sample, but, if anyone wants to give this a try and beat me to it, please go ahead, PM me or any other updater or admin, after you're done with the raw recording, or before if you have further questions.
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There's the problem, though, that DOSBox includes a 32-bit (x86) installer for the video codec it uses (ZMBV), but not a 64-bit (x64) one. So if you have x86 Windows all will be well (after you install the codec that comes with DOSBox), but if you happen to use x64 Windows--which is rather common nowadays--when you try to import the video clip into MMaker it may appear as audio only instead of video. And I think there's no trustworthy provider of a ZMBV codec other than DOSBox--I mean you may find a x64 one if you google for it, but it may be malware. If you have other news please inform me!

This can be worked around one way or the other. (The simplest one being doing the work on a 32-bit Windows instead of your 64-bit one--even if it's a virtual machine.) So if you encounter this problem, don't let it stop you from contributing, just let us do the techie work and you do the hard part: record both files and send them to us, we'll merge them.

EDIT: OK now I see Dave's edit, it can also be done with VirtualDub, as you prefer.