[Stryke 9]

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.

[Galemp]

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

My contact info is in my profile, however.

[Stealth]

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

[Stryke 9]

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.

[Stealth]

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

[Ulundel]

OK, but what if I have Geforce 4 MX?

[Stealth]

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

[Stryke 9]

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.

[Anaz]

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

[Ulundel]

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

*gives Stryke an icecube for his fingers*

[Stryke 9]

Liquid nitrogen might do better...

[Eishtmo]

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.

[Solatar]

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

[Stryke 9]

No.

[beatspete]

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

[Anaz]

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

[elorran]

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*