Movie making question

[Kenan]

Is there a way, after u make track, to make AVI clip of only -certain- parts of the track ie. if there's a landing mission track, I'd like to capture just the landing part itself..not the long approachg etc.

 

Or is it, like, you have to make whole track into AVI movie and only afterwards cut it into useful peaces?

 

Thanks for any help!

[Valery Blazhnov]

Is there a way, after u make track, to make AVI clip of only -certain- parts of the track ie. if there's a landing mission track, I'd like to capture just the landing part itself..not the long approachg etc.

 

Or is it, like, you have to make whole track into AVI movie and only afterwards cut it into useful peaces?

 

Thanks for any help!

You can set start/finish model time in the AVI dialog to render corresponding part of the track.

[Kenan]

You can set start/finish model time in the AVI dialog to render corresponding part of the track.

 

Thank you!

[4cMungos]

Kenan make sure you let us see the movie when you finish it, ok? :)

 

Pozdrav i sretno.

[Kenan]

Kenan make sure you let us see the movie when you finish it, ok? :)

 

Pozdrav i sretno.

 

Hvala! ;)

 

I tried making a movie, but the whole process is painfully slow (even my 2ghz Athlon can't handle it well..maybe it's my skinny 512mb of ram being a bottleneck?).

Is this the case with the rest of the community?

 

It's like, 5 seconds of recording takes minute and a half..set on 40% quality..I disabled sound in the Options menu but no difference: the avi switches to Sound Recording right after the tracks plays out..I hit ESC to prevent the damn thing but it always manages to 'catch' the tiny little sound bite left from it.

 

Are there any hints on increasing video creation speed ie. which codecs to use (I used Windows Media Codec 9)?

 

Or..is there a web site or sticky with some movie making tutorials for us newbies?

[Iceman_AFS]

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/ubb.x/a/frm/f/829104012

 

This will take you to the Lock on movie maker forum..you will find alot of answers there.

I think the "Huffyuv" codec worked best for Lock on but i think i have read here in the forums that its not workin with 1.1,but i dont know if thats correct.

[coldcrew]

movie making is slow. Even if you use raw uncompressed frames it is still very slow so the codec won't improve it that much. I find the fastest way is to edit the tracks and find which places you want to snip movies from. Edit the track fast forward to the location you want, set your camera angles, then save them. After you have it all, video edit the section of the track you want. A good video shouldn't have long stretches of the same view so you should be recording 1-2 min videos from each track. When you're done use a video editor like premier to add your movie effects (fade in's etc) plus music and you're done. Adobe premier works really well with uncompressed frames but they eat up major hd space.

 

For example in this carrier landing video (http://www.verbalass.com/landing.zip) I made I used 3 track views (tires, wing and ship). People who make 4-5minute videos sure have a lot of time on their hands :)

[Guest ruggbutt]

I think the "Huffyuv" codec worked best for Lock on but i think i have read here in the forums that its not workin with 1.1,but i dont know if thats correct.

 

That's the case, I found out that my beloved Huffy doesn't work w/1.1. I use Alparysoft Lossless Codec now. It works about like Huffy did and it doesn't crash my machine.

 

I'll be releasing my upcoming vid Viper Drivers soon.

[Conuk]

Codec Link

 

http://www.alparysoft.com/products.php?item=35

[Iceman_AFS]

Thnx for the codec and link gents..:)

[Kenan]

How better is this codec from the rest in 1.02?

In terms of encoding faster or resulting in the smaller file output size?

 

Thx!

[Guest ruggbutt]

Visually it's almost as nice as rendering uncompressed, and you can do 3-4 minutes w/out going over the 2 gig file size.