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Hosted Projects - Standalone => The Babylon Project => Topic started by: darkmaster on January 01, 2008, 03:36:26 pm

Title: how to make trailer movie ?
Post by: darkmaster on January 01, 2008, 03:36:26 pm

Just a stupid question but... how did you make trailer movies for your campaigns ? I've tried a screen recorder but it gave me a very big file and the quality was very bad compared to yours.
Is there a way to record parts of the game without losing quality and make it small enough ?

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Title: Re: how to make trailer movie ?
Post by: IPAndrews on January 02, 2008, 03:33:06 am

You need to use a program such as FRAPS which can capture on-screen visuals and save them as a movie file. Usually these programs will save in a raw uncompressed movie format. They have to work very quickly to keep up with the on-screen action so they don't have time to do any kind of compression or encoding. This leaves you with, as you say, a big file. Then you use a video editting and / or conversion program to edit your movie and convert it into a smaller more compressed format such as MPEG4, DivX, XVid, or ogg.

Title: Re: how to make trailer movie ?
Post by: darkmaster on January 02, 2008, 10:11:54 am

Thx, will try it.

Title: Re: how to make trailer movie ?
Post by: Asprin on January 02, 2008, 10:27:29 am

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Then you use a video editting and / or conversion program

Adobe Premier for example.