Recording Avi's...

[midnight_mangler]

Can someone give me some tips on how to generate avi's from LOMAC? Appreciate any assistance.

 

Cheers,

Mangler

[GhostDog]

1): First record a track by opening a mission in the editor and press control-r or select "record track" from the "flight" menu.

 

2): When you are done and select quit or end mission (or whatever is says) you are taken to the save screen. Remeber to type in a name for your track and click "save".

 

3): you can now go to the map screen and select "record Avi" from the "flight menu" - When you do that you are given some options to set codecs and quality etc...

 

4): Click "Start"

 

ps: if you wanted to change the views on the tracks before you record you can select "video edit" and then change the views before you record. Save it and go to #4)

 

You can allways open a track at a later time by selecting "open" from the main menu and select "track files" in the dropdown menu on the lower right of the open screen

[midnight_mangler]

Ghostdog - thanks a million, really appreciated.

 

Cheers,

Mangler

[GhostDog]

NP... be adviced though that there is still bugs with this feature.

Test with smaller trackfiles to begin with.

 

One note: it sometimes reckords sounds from you mic when its writing the audio track so switch it off if you have one!

 

Let me know how it works out

[GhostDog]

I fooled around a bit more with recording avi's.

 

The only codec that seems to be working is the normal uncompressed avi. The thing is that the files get huge (about a gig pr 15 seconds) and if they get more than a certain size they wont play in the media player. I have tried turning down quality but that doesnt look to be doing much untill you get it down to abot 2%. Then the files will actually get a bit smaller but not much...and i cant see any big difference in quality (thats good i think )

But the track i want to record is about 2 minuttes long and smallest i can get it is around 3Gb which is still ridiculous.... and i have to record it in 20 second segments and paste them together in a video editor to avoid error.

 

If any of you find out a better way then let me know. I knwo about FRAPS but i would like to get the inbuilt to work.

 

btw: it would be a killer avi if i could get it to work....damn: i so much felt like showing off. :(

[GhostDog]

I'm just bumping this...

 

I have accepted that i have to record short sections and then paste them together in a video editor. But does anyone know of some tools to compress those huge avi files without taking to high a toll on quality?

[Knife21]

Try Virtualdub. It is free and it works well. A lot of the movie makers record at a lower resolution. Most of the IL-2 movies are captured at 640x480x32 with Fraps.

 

http://www.virtualdub.org/

Edited January 21, 2004 by Knife21

[GhostDog]

thanks for the answer. I will check it out

[Sledge]

Hey Ghost, I've been able to get the DivX 5.xx (.04 I think it is) to work just fine. I also used the windows movie maker to make a couple of videos. I jacked up the resolution all the way to the highest level and a 3 min video is just under a gig along with a music track. Good luck! - Sledge

[Sledge]

Correction: The 3min video was just under 1Meg not 1Gig. Sorry about that. - Sledge

[GhostDog]

I have never gotten the DivX codecs to work but i'll give it another go later if you say it works for you

[+Ruggbutt]

I use Dr.DivX to compress it. I render the avi's from the game uncompressed. They work great.

[GhostDog]

I kind of gave up on the whole thing after spending so much time on it for nothing. I still have some tracks that i would like to render so i might give it another try. the next time i'm not using my machine for anything else... whenever that might be

[ARCHER]

having just tried the avi in game recorder, for me does not work

2 fps with no sound 3 sec clip was 80meg of nonsence ,

yet FRAPS a great little program records the game perfect

with sound, so my view is the avi recorder is waste of time

for me ,stick with FRAPS