Cliffs of Dover Video Thread V1.0 [Closed]

[DoolittleRaider]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

Okay, I finished it. It's not very good. It's my first film ever really. I'm going to work harder on the next one. This was really just a test to see if I could do it. Apologies for the quality of the footage. I'm still working out how to convert without loss of quality, etc.

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You are on your way, Mate! The key to a great Flight Sim movie, of which there are relatively few, is that you must tell a Story. Bang-Bang Shoot'em-Up dogfighting gets BO-ring, quickly. You have a good start with this short video clip, although admittedly very basic. A "movie" must have a 'beginning' (you have the start of one here), a middle (crisis or conflict), and an 'Ending'...[the 'hero(es) win or lose or whatever you decide and show to the viewers...]

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by DoolittleRaider

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You are on your way, Mate! The key to a great Flight Sim movie, of which there are relatively few, is that you must tell a Story. Bang-Bang Shoot'em-Up dogfighting gets BO-ring, quickly. You have a good start with this short video clip, although admittedly very basic. A "movie" must have a 'beginning' (you have the start of one here), a middle (crisis or conflict), and an 'Ending'...[the 'hero(es) win or lose or whatever you decide and show to the viewers...]

Yeah, the idea I had that kicked me off on this whole hobby of simfilming was mostly just trailer stuff, so I put it together like that. I'm planning my next one to have more of a narrative.

[ATAG_Doc]

I have fun just making them as well as seeing what works of art I find in here.

[Rince]

-stunning- for your first try and even if it would be your 10th try...

Keep up, looks promising!

Cheers!

[Les]

Glad to see you got something together BW_Wolverine.

What program/s did you end up editing/rendering/converting with? 360p is a bit low res.

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by Les

Glad to see you got something together BW_Wolverine.

What program/s did you end up editing/rendering/converting with? 360p is a bit low res.

I was using FRAPS recording to get the footage from CoD, then Xvid4PSP to convert the fraps footage into MP4, then importing to iMovie with no conversion, then I used iMovie for editing (and Garageband for the audio tweaking) plus iMovie's 'share to youtube' function to render/convert.

I'm hoping to improve the rendering next try.

[David198502]

Originally Posted by Les

Another '3D' test video, see here for further details - http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...606#post325606

hey les!with which program did you overlap the both videos to one?i searched for that function in windows movie maker but without success.btw,..great idea!

[Les]

Originally Posted by David198502

hey les!with which program did you overlap the both videos to one?i searched for that function in windows movie maker but without success.btw,..great idea!

I used Adobe Premiere Pro, but any video-editing software that allows you to layer at least two video clips on top of each other and change their size and position can be used. As far as I know, Windows Movie Maker only allows one layer (or line or sequence) of video and uses a few automated effects (dissolves etc.) to do some things that would otherwise require using two layers of video. Unfortunately I don't know of any free programs that enable layering of video clips, and I'm not sure what the capabilities of the more affordable video-editing programs (or their demo versions) are, so I can't recommend a program for you to experiment with, sorry.

[Les]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

I was using FRAPS recording to get the footage from CoD, then Xvid4PSP to convert the fraps footage into MP4, then importing to iMovie with no conversion, then I used iMovie for editing (and Garageband for the audio tweaking) plus iMovie's 'share to youtube' function to render/convert.

I'm hoping to improve the rendering next try.

Download and install this x264 codec - http://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/

Run 'Configure x264vfw' from the start menu or wherever you installed it, to open up the codec's configuration window . From the 'Rate control' drop down menu select 'Single pass-lossless'. In the 'Output' section; select 'File' from the 'Output mode:' drop-down menu, and 'x264' from the 'VFW FourCC:' drop-down menu. Click 'Okay' to exit.

Run Xvid4PSP. Select MP4 from the 'Format' drop-down list. Press the round button next to 'Video encoding' drop-down list. Go to the top right corner of the 'Video encoding settings' window that opens and select 'x264'. Go to the bottom left corner and tick 'Lossless'. Click 'Okay'. Open up the video you want to convert and encode it. On the test I did, this compressed a 917 MB FRAPS AVI down to a 41(!) MB MP4 video file with negligible degradation of the image.

See if iMovie will accept the video clip. If it does, follow the settings described below to export the video -

iMovie 08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z00om...feature=relmfu

iMovie 09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVp2...eature=related

If you get that far, upload the video to Youtube and see if it looks alright.

That's what I'd try, if I had no way of editing the FRAPS AVI files as is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhwIgwc6abM