Noobish question re making videos
Please excuse the noobiness of me, but how are you able to do so many different videos of the same assassination (since there's no mission replay in AC2)? I know you can abort or intentionally desync, but sometimes the video will have the beginning of the cutscene so then the task is complete and you can't do it again, correct?
How do you do practice runs? (Feel free to yell "Practice runs? We don't need no stinkin' practice runs!" at me if you like.) Don't you have to actually accomplish the assassination in order to know that it will work?
I've just been wondering as I've been lost in admiration for your skill and stylish work in all these videos. 
It's a good question. One trick that works on all platforms is to exit the game during the memory corridor sequence. It doesn't actually do a save until after "Requiescat in pace". So if you exit and reload the game, it starts over from the beginning of the assassination. This is a good way to replay the same assassination many times in a row but it doesn't help if you've already progressed in the story.
The general solution depends on your gaming platform. We developed these processes for AC1 which did have mission replay but took too long (40+ minutes per assassination) for the purpose of making videos. On Xbox 360 I still use this skip procedure. The corollary procedure on PS3 no longer works for AC2 so Ian has taken to backing up his entire hard drive to an external USB drive. Granjow wrote a program to help skip on the PC. We'll have to ask him if it still works on AC2.
Unfortunately, the lack of a mission replay feature in AC2 seems to be discouraging casual players from continuing to play at all.
I read that Microsoft will release an update that will let you save your game on UBs external drives. Wouldnt that help as well?
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Thanks very much stabguy. You guys really are amazing with how you figure out ways to accomplish things like this. If I was Ubisoft, I'd be pretty darn flattered. (And I'd add mission replayability, of course.)
Granjow wrote a program to help skip on the PC. We'll have to ask him if it still works on AC2.
I already answered that in another thread. You can very easily backup and restore save files on the PC version. To automate the process, you could write a single-line batch file for each of the backup and the restoration. 
I'm sure somebody could whip up a simple program where you could designate which save is which and then just click to restore the specific one you want, listed by mission title. Hell, an HTML file could do it.
I read that Microsoft will release an update that will let you save your game on UBs external drives. Wouldnt that help as well?
It absolutely will. It removes the need for both a memory unit and a cable to connect a memory unit or hard drive to the PC.
wow didn't know you could do this, i'm going to try now thanks guys.