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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Dekzar on August 09, 2004, 03:21:43 pm

Title: FS2 Cinematic AVIs
Post by: Dekzar on August 09, 2004, 03:21:43 pm

Okay, so I'm working on some...stuff...for my new FS2 campaign, and I'm trying to get little clips from the FreeSpace 2 cinematics. I downloaded the AVI versions from the FTP server, and got them all set up.

I can play them fine using Windows Media Player and all, but when I try to load them into Adobe Premiere, I always get an error. I assume it has something to do with the codec, as I can import other AVIs fine. Even DivX AVIs.

So, is there another version of the AVIs somewhere? Or a tool to convert the MVEs to something other than DivX-encoded AVIs? Or, has anyone else encountered this problem with Adobe Premiere 6.5 and found a fix/workaround?

Thanks.

Title: FS2 Cinematic AVIs
Post by: Moonsword on August 09, 2004, 03:24:50 pm

:welcome:

Someone should be along to help you shortly, but welcome to the boards.

Title: FS2 Cinematic AVIs
Post by: Flaser on August 09, 2004, 03:31:11 pm

Use Virtaul Dub - that's a free encoder/mixer software.

It is very generous with files, can recover a lot of lost cases.
It will tell you what kind of codecs you need - and if you insist on using Adobe Premier you can export into some Indeo / uncompreseed format using VRDub.

Title: FS2 Cinematic AVIs
Post by: karajorma on August 09, 2004, 03:49:09 pm

I've never used premier myself so I can't help you with that but if you want to get hold of uncompressed versions of the avi's so you can compress them yourself this should help

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/movies.html

Title: FS2 Cinematic AVIs
Post by: Dekzar on August 12, 2004, 11:47:46 pm

Ah, great, thanks guys!

VRDub had trouble with the downloaded ones too, but getting them straight from the CD in MVE format worked fine, as long as I converted them using VRDub rather than Premiere.

Thanks for all the help!

Title: FS2 Cinematic AVIs
Post by: karajorma on August 13, 2004, 04:47:00 am

I'm surprised that VDub had trouble with them. I made them in VDub :D

Title: FS2 Cinematic AVIs
Post by: Hippo on August 13, 2004, 09:12:40 am

also try Windows Movie Maker: it won't work with 9x or 2k, but it usually comes standard with XP, and has done a great job for me... it just doesn't convert (AFAIK) but VDub does that fine...

Title: FS2 Cinematic AVIs
Post by: Setekh on August 14, 2004, 02:18:36 am

Heh, glad to hear you got that problem fixed Dekzar. Welcome to HLP. :)

:welcome: