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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Stryke 9 on February 13, 2003, 05:46:08 pm

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Stryke 9 on February 13, 2003, 05:46:08 pm

Someone wanna figure out a way to record the FS2 cutscenes into a more manageable format? It'd be very handy to be able to MPEG-4 them for... well, you know what for.

Someone, anyone.

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Galemp on February 13, 2003, 05:47:21 pm

There are some shady methods of doing so, none of which I can speak of here.

My contact info is in my profile, however.

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Stealth on February 13, 2003, 05:52:43 pm

yeah, i have a couple of methods myself, most of which are completely legal

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Stryke 9 on February 13, 2003, 10:18:06 pm

Well, then, what are they?

And quit sidestepping around like you're trying to sell me Columbian crack or something. There's one use for a ripper or a recoder here, and I'm doing it, and at any rate it's hardly the sort of thing that warrants much of an admin response, anyway. I mean, hell- it's not even warez, it's a dedicated small-time tool or two, which really wouldn't be used by anyone here for anything other than what I'm gonna do with it- which damn few people would have a problem with anyway.

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Stealth on February 14, 2003, 10:36:03 am

well, i'm not going to pull a GE and 'side-step'

main method what i was thinking is if you have those fancy video cards you just record straight from them, or plug a VCR in it or something and record from that

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Ulundel on February 14, 2003, 11:30:38 am

OK, but what if I have Geforce 4 MX?

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Stealth on February 14, 2003, 11:52:32 am

then you either get a program that will record anything that goes through the video card

or you take it to a friends house


...

i know ther'es better ways, i just don't know of them

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Stryke 9 on February 14, 2003, 02:58:39 pm

Expensive alternative, though maybe the video capture one (I doubt such can be had either easily or legally, and it's the former that's gonna be a real *****).

Meh, maybe I should just hit "Print Screen" 24 times a second.:doubt:

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Anaz on February 14, 2003, 08:07:30 pm

:lol:

I think a video capture proggy would probably be your best bet...

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Ulundel on February 15, 2003, 06:00:07 am

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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Meh, maybe I should just hit "Print Screen" 24 times a second.:doubt:

*gives Stryke an icecube for his fingers*

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Stryke 9 on February 15, 2003, 04:54:09 pm

Liquid nitrogen might do better...

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Eishtmo on February 15, 2003, 08:41:34 pm

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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Liquid nitrogen might do better...

Actually, if you do the right finger exercises and practice, you can get that fast.  Extensive training in using my abacus to run FS2 has taught me that.

The beams still give me cramps though.

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Solatar on February 15, 2003, 09:23:57 pm

but for evertime your hit "Print screen" wouldn't you have to go into psp or something and paste it?

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Stryke 9 on February 15, 2003, 11:43:50 pm

No.

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: beatspete on February 16, 2003, 08:12:34 am

Its simple.  Hold a video camera to the screen, run FS2, then do some saving-to-computer-in-some-format type thingys.  :nod: :yes:

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: Anaz on February 16, 2003, 12:07:09 pm

um...bp...that will give you extrordinarily crappy quality...

Title: Cutscenes (FS2)
Post by: elorran on February 16, 2003, 02:08:22 pm

Considering the age of FS2 and the particular format for the cutscenes (which I understand interplay now longer uses due to it's age) why not just ask one of the volition boys or an interplay rep if it's possible we could have access to a convertion codec.  Volition will probably still have the original scene files backed up somewhere too before they where encoded.

It might be worth the try of asking *shrug*