[Singh]

The fade effect was done in premier. Carl taught me that one - kudoz go to him, not me

Oh crap, that wasn't what I meant... I should have worded that better. The fade itself is very cool, of course but I was wondering how you synchronized the old ships and the new ships so well. If I had to do it, I'd set things up so that some ships fly along designated waypoints, and then I'd use WMC's camera sexps so that the camera moves in exactly the same way every time you run the mission. Then I'd just capture video for the mission twice: one with effects off, and one with effects on.

As for FRAPS slowing down your system: I highly recommend GameCam. I downloaded it a couple of months ago when I did my run-through of Bearbaiting, and I was so impressed with it that I registered it within hours after downloading it. It only runs in WindowsXP for DirectX games, and it doesn't work for FS2 retail, but it captures video extremely smoothly and with no apparent FPS drop whatsoever.

That's exactly the way I did it, and it's pretty much the bueaty of the whole thing. Even if I cannot run any of the higher-end missions on my own, I can simply upload it somewhere and have someone else run through it with ease

As for Game-cam. I'll try it out - but my base FPS is pretty damn low as it is. However, since audio sync isnt an issue here, it may just work out with negative time compression.

[vyper]

I like the general direction this goes in. Obviously the appropriate comments on improvement so far I'd have to agree with, but yes, I like the idea.

I especially the like transitions and the use of the original music.

[Bobboau]

oh... for the love of God and all that is holy, use a real codec, use divx.

I can't see it!

[WMCoolmon]

XviD!!

[Bobboau]

anything that doesn't requier me to pay $14 to view.

[Singh]

It uses Indeo codec.....only one that seems to work best with my copy of Adobe Premier. DivX wouldn't show in the list either, so that wasnt an option.

In either case, work has halted on this atm, since (a) I am in Malaysia visiting cousins and (b) due to (a) I am over 300 clicks away from my computer

[CaptJosh]

Bob. Instead of trying to open from current location, save it to your hard drive first, then open it. If you still can't see it, then you don't have the Indeo 5 video codec, which is free. 

In fact, here's a link to an installer:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download_soft.php?d=273&s=188

[Sheepy]

Cant get Indeo codec for osx, and the os9 version no worky so i guess i just dont get to see it at all, shame

[DaBrain]

I intend to take this to the following mods, assuming they allow me permission to release up-to-date videos of their stuff:

Inferno (no new vid is actually needed, since I can just use one of the older ones - which still look spectacular)
BSG
TBP

Well, it's old already, but it sure shows some different possibilies of the engine:
http://www.game-warden.com/starfox/Non_SF_related_stuff/SoL_preview.wmv

I'd love to give you a clip of the final product which looks a lot more impressive, but it's not complete...

[Ghost]

I've got a suggestion: yeah, the Aeolus transfer shows the quality of the new maps, but it doesn't do a damn thing to show off the new model. How bout show it flying at an angle, kinda like what you did with the Herc?


Kudos on the herc transfer btw

[Ulala]

Cool. Most of my suggestions were already hit, but I'll check back for updates.

[Setekh]

Looking awesome. The bit at the end just hits home about how far we've all come. Nice one showing this off, Singh.

[Singh]

For those of you whom werent on GW, re-download the vid. its been updated clips-wise during the outage, and now I need to change the text and more stuff. The next major update should be coming over the weekend once I begin to record more stuff

As always, soundtrack suggestions are VERY welcome as well as possible sources, if any.

If someone can tell me which "store" I can go to *cough* "acquire" *cough* the Crimson tide soundtrack, that'd be really (by PM of course) appreciated.

[CaptJosh]

That's great singh, except for one little problem. "File not found"

[Singh]

Bah. Try now. Linky fixed

[Singh]

tis been updated. Not much has been updated; so tis upto you if you wish to download or not

[Flaser]

For the love of God...don't use wmv.

While a lot of people use Windows, not all of them do...
It's a pure Windows format, and MS does all it can to enforce its format anyway...
...anyone can play and avi.

With fddshow it doesn't matter wheter it's avi with Xvid or Divx videostream or ogm or mkv with embedded captions.

[Singh]

For the love of God...don't use wmv.

While a lot of people use Windows, not all of them do...
It's a pure Windows format, and MS does all it can to enforce its format anyway...
...anyone can play and avi.

With fddshow it doesn't matter wheter it's avi with Xvid or Divx videostream or ogm or mkv with embedded captions.

....Except that Premier has some idiotic trouble encoding in xvid atm, and doing so in Indeo video inflates the size to 80Mb or so.

Sorry, but dont exactly have that much option. I'll see if i cant fix the Xvid codec on the thing - but no promises

[Flaser]

Don't *encode* in Premier.
The reason VR-Dub was written is that no other program on the market was good at 'simple recompression' of videos. It's freeware and it's easy to use.

I don't say that you shouldn't use Premier. *EDIT* in premier - it's very good at it AFAIK. You have to cut and work with the media in some raw format anyway (Indeo is recommended) since MPEG-4 encodes are very slow to seek; so I don't see why 2 step production would mean that much more work.

[Singh]

its not that much work - its the utter and mostly ****ty quality loss. You're essentially cutting the quality twice when going from Indeo to Xvid. At least, I think it will

No harm giving it a try, I guess.

*goes off to compress