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Video: Escadrille Americaine

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Okay while everyone's in a video mood I may as well post this here. It was originally posted at simhq last year and was the last decent "epic" I made. Some of you have already seen it no doubt but I thought I should spread the love for the newbies. I hope you chaps find it enjoyable.

 

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Wonderfully made video, Catch !

I have yet to try the Ford Model T - that intro with the train and car arrival

was a very nice idea, and the choice of music makes it a joy to watch.

 

If only we had those Gothas in there already - would make me fly Entete side much more!

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Always good to see more, classic story telling Catch nicely done.

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How much fun was that to watch???... THIS MUCH

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I'm amazed at the smoothness and high framerate of your videos. My only experience with FRAPS yielded a mere 8fps. What program do you use?

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Thank you chaps. Glad you blokes enjoyed it. If you look closely as Kiffin Rockwell (our American volunteer and hero of the story) finally gets to his airfield there is a reference to "young Rogers" working on the Parasol with a glimpse of its wing upright in a hangar. And indeed Pol is working on the Parasol (yay). Spooky lol. I like throwing in pseudo Hitchcockian references sometimes for a bit of fun. Some people actually pick them up although they can be pretty obscure references.

 

Winston, I use fraps and windows movie maker only. I'm tempted to try some of the nifty editing s/w like Mike used recently which looks very effective. Win movie maker does have limitations. I set fraps to half-size and 25fps and it records pretty close to that mostly.

 

There is a trick though (more like a bug actually) where AA settings either in game or set via your card impacts fraps and frames are really bad like your 8fps. For instance if I set AA to 16 or 4, fraps bums out .... but on 8 AA it's fine. Try experimenting. Also keep AA in-game and AA on your card in sync if possible. 8 works for me well and kills the jaggies effectively.

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Catch: I really enjoyed your "movie" ..excellent! Looks like you put a lot of work into it and we thank you! I like the way you were able to tie all the differnt parts you saved into a cohesive whole story line, it really worked smoothly. Salute.gif

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Thanks for the good tips, Catch, and for making me appetite to record a bit again.

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