Obtaining Replay achievements

That's a Wrap Save your very first replay. Difficulty: Very Easy How to obtain: Find a server that supports replays and start recording, this achievement will automatically unlock. You can check for servers that support Replays by clicking the Replay Support filter on the server browser.

We Can Fix It In Post While watching a replay, press space bar to enter the editor. Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: Open a saved replay and press space to bring up the editor.

Time For Your Close-Up, Mr. Hale Render a replay into a movie. Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: Make a replay and save it as a movie.

Star of My Own Show Spend some time editing a replay. Reward: Director's Vision Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: Just play around in the editor for a while and this one will unlock. Completing this achievement will unlock the Director's Vision.

Home Movie Achieve 100 YouTube™ views for your movie. Difficulty: Medium How to obtain: For this one you must upload a movie onto YouTube and it must get at least 100 views. Try and get your friends or family to view your video to obtain this one.

Local Cinema Star Achieve 1000 YouTube™ views for your movie. Reward: Frontline Field Recorder Difficulty: Medium How to obtain: Same strategy as Home Movie. See additional tips below. Completing this achievement will unlock the Frontline Field Recorder.

Indie Film Sensation Achieve 10,000 YouTube™ views for your movie. Difficulty: Hard How to obtain: Same strategy as Home Movie. See additional tips below. At this point the movie must be rather good to garner this many views. A simple replay relying only on friends' views will no longer suffice.

Blockbuster Achieve 100,000 YouTube™ views for your movie. Difficulty: Very Hard How to obtain: Same strategy as Home Movie. See additional tips below. Replays that receive enough views to earn the achievement are usually of the highest quality and appeal to the interest of the masses.

Additional Tips for Obtaining YouTube Views

Other than asking friends and family to watch your videos or simply focusing on making a blockbuster, there are a few additional things you can do to increase the likelihood of obtaining more views for your videos.

• Even if you have a witty title for your video, append it with something like "Team Fortress 2 gameplay" or "TF2 replay." This will increase the likelihood your video will be found in searches of viewers looking for this content.
• If you already have a popular video, or know someone who does, title your video as closely as possible to the popular antecedent. This will make it more likely to be considered a "related video" that will be promoted whenever someone watches the more popular video
• In the video description, write out what happens in the video. While it may seem pointless, it increases the likelihood your video will be found via search. It may also compel someone who found your video link via Google to click on it if the description sounds more intriguing than "funny TF2 moment."

Don't settle for only modifying your YouTube video parameters from within Team Fortress 2. Once it's live, edit the video's settings on YouTube itself. From there, you have access to a number of other tools:

• Tag your video with terms related to what it contains. Tags like "headshot," "spycrab," etc. will make it easier for other people to find your video. Use as many tags as possible, and don't forget to add any of YouTube's suggested tags, where applicable.
• Post your video as a video response to a similar, popular video. To do this, simply click "reply" on a video, then choose to post a video response. Select your TF2 video as the response. If the original video's author approves, your video will be shown somewhat prominently under and after his or hers.
• Choose a stillframe that's more compelling. From the video detail screen, you can choose one of three stillframes that represents your video when it's shown as a thumbnail. While the choice is limited, it still helps to pick the best of the three.
• Set your video's category to "Gaming." This will more closely associate it with gaming videos and make it easier to find for people looking for videos about videogames.
• If you feel that music or captions would make your video more compelling, you can add them with Audioswap and the Captions/Annotations tools. Keep in mind, however, that Audioswap is a permanent choice that overrides all sound in the video. Also keep in mind that some viewers may find captions/annotations distracting or annoying.

Once your video's settings are complete, there are more ways than begging associates to have it seen by more eyes:

• Post a link to your replay on forums you frequent, as long as the Terms of Use for those forums do not strictly forbid doing so. If you feel a separate post would be too intrusive, consider making a link to your video or to your channel in your profile signature instead.
• Post a link to your replay on content sharing sites like Reddit, Digg, StumbeUpon, etc. If your video is genuinely good, it may receive a lot of traffic that will quickly propel it into tens of thousands of views
• Post a link to your replay on the special "TF2-replay" sites like www.tf2replay.com
• If you believe your video is truly exceptional and appreciable by mainstream gamers, you can try e-mailing it to gaming media outlets like Kotaku, Joystiq, etc. These sites will most likely only post your video if it is completely outstanding, but this can help a great video with a limited fanbase reach the masses instantly if accepted.