Capturing cockpit video footage in HD

[Akula]

Can someone PLEASE help with this. Check out the chinook video. I’m trying to capture HIGH DEFINITION cockpit videos such as what you would see at 0:10 every time I try to capture in game video of the cockpit instruments the entire cockpit looks like it’s rendered in 480p which is nowhere near what you see in the chinook video at 0:10

 

 

Edited July 1, 2024 by Akula

[Dangerzone]

6 hours ago, Akula said:

Can someone PLEASE help with this. Check out the chinook video. I’m trying to capture HIGH DEFINITION cockpit videos such as what you would see at 0:10 every time I try to capture in game video of the cockpit instruments the entire cockpit looks like it’s rendered in 480p which is nowhere near what you see in the chinook video at 0:10

 

 

 

What screen resolution are you running? 

It wouldn't surprise me if the video footage you've seen is captured at 4K, not 1080p with all settings up to max, and then downgraded to 1080p from the 4K footage.

Also - if your GPU can't handle that - I believe there is a function that allows you to render a track file in high frames, high resolution, and high settings even if your GPU can't handle rendering it at real time. (You just let DCS render each frame at a time, and save the result to a video file which they may be using for their video creation as well.

If memory serves me correctly, I believe this is in the Mission Editor, under Flight-Record AVI. You can select the TRACK file, Start and end times, video codec, Video Quality, FPS and Resolution in there which may be worth exploring. 

 

Edited July 2, 2024 by Dangerzone

[Akula]

It’s not the system or the windows or GPU settings it’s the cockpit resolution and capturing it correctly. I have plenty of horse power to spare with my rig. Made sure of that.

 Try setting AP to level flight and then hit F4 and move the camera inside the cockpit. Don’t hit F1….. you’ll notice that inside the cockpit everything is very low definition and just looks crappy. I tried doing this in the air, on the ground, while flying as client, player and even tried moving the camera into an AI’s cockpit. The cockpits all look low definition. 

[Akula]

On 7/1/2024 at 11:06 PM, Dangerzone said:

If memory serves me correctly, I believe this is in the Mission Editor, under Flight-Record AVI. You can select the TRACK file, Start and end times, video codec, Video Quality, FPS and Resolution in there which may be worth exploring. 

 

 

I missed this part of your reply. I’ll check that out, thanks DZ

[Dangerzone]

On 7/2/2024 at 11:27 PM, Akula said:

It’s not the system or the windows or GPU settings it’s the cockpit resolution and capturing it correctly. I have plenty of horse power to spare with my rig. Made sure of that.

 Try setting AP to level flight and then hit F4 and move the camera inside the cockpit. Don’t hit F1….. you’ll notice that inside the cockpit everything is very low definition and just looks crappy. I tried doing this in the air, on the ground, while flying as client, player and even tried moving the camera into an AI’s cockpit. The cockpits all look low definition. 

Aaah - I believe external views have a different model of the cockpit along with the rest of the airframe. I think you'll find that the MDF's, etc aren't showing what you'd see when you're in a F1 view as well. The only way to get that sort of high quality video I believe is with the F1 view and doing some fancy stuff to change your view angle, etc. I believe you can change your view by holding down Right CTRL+ALT and using the numpad (if I recall correctly - I'm not at my PC to double check) - which allows you to get down low, etc. As for how to move the camera ever so slowly though in a particular direction, that I'm not sure of sorry.

[Tuna-Salad]

This exactly. What you see in the aircraft vs the model rendered externally are 2 different things. Not sure if this applies to all aircraft.

[Akula]

I know the F4 view will never render the internals of the cockpit like the F1 view. The F1 camera controls for inside the cockpit will give you the high res cockpit but it can’t do a floating camera view panning over the controls as shown in the video. I’ll keep digging but thanks for the replies

If anyone knows how, please share.