Saved Films is a great feature. It lets anybody who has Halo 3 and an Xbox Live account share game films with each other. It'll be great for documenting tricks, speedruns, the works.

However, it can't do everything. It's not a video editing suite; you can't add effects or music, and you need to have Halo 3 running on an Xbox 360 to play these films back. So there's still a need, sometimes, for an actual video file.

Don't have a capture card? No problem. Steve Chamblin at YourHalo3Vids.com says he'll take your Saved Films and convert them into video files. Just keep it ten minutes or less.

Thanks for the heads-up to Louis Wu at HBO.

Editor's Note: Here's betting this guy gets completely overwhelmed with requests in short order.