Author Topic: Movie: Mustang Rhapsody (Read 1010 times)

Schatzi · « **Reply #15 on:** December 05, 2005, 07:19:45 AM »

Great movie!

Thank you.

Midnight · « **Reply #16 on:** December 05, 2005, 07:39:42 AM »

WTG Tango. A great film with a spectacular use of the music. It was so cool to have the action fit so well with the tempo and lyrics of the song. That is true production value and cinematography.

Balsy · « **Reply #17 on:** December 05, 2005, 08:14:41 AM »

Best movie I've seen. You put a lot of "love" into that baby... and it shows.

Balsy

PS I think Skuzzy just found a NEW FEATURED MOVIE to put on AH homepage.

Wilbus · « **Reply #18 on:** December 05, 2005, 09:26:14 AM »

A question (or a few).

What program do you use to capture and what program do you use to compress aswell as what format?

Thinking about giving movie making a try and would like to know some good programs and formats.

Put together a move a long time ago but it ended at 900mb for a few minutes (think I got it down to 90 eventually).

dtango · « **Reply #19 on:** December 05, 2005, 09:48:25 AM »

Thanks again for the comments fellas. Glad folks are enjoying it!

Wilbus:

I used all of the following:
AH Film Viewer - camera angles and camera shots
Fraps - capture vid clips from AH films
Virtual Dub - clip editing (filters, crops, etc.) and compression
MS Movie Maker 2 - assembling clips into a production

There's a good tutorial on simhq that goes through the use of these tools (albeit written more for IL2):
How To Make Your Own Simulation Movies

From a compression standpoint it's a multistage process I go through.
(1)Clips edited in Virtual Dub saved in raw uncompressed AVI
(2)Final full production in MS MM2 saved in raw uncompressed AVI (for Mustang Rhapsody ~ 1.3 GB I think)
(3)Hi-Res version - production raw AVI compressed using XVID mpeg4 codec and processed through Virtual Dub. Result is an xvid compressed AVI file (1.3 GB --> 225 MB).
(4)Med-Res version - production raw AVI compressed using MS MM2 with it's built in windows media mpeg4 v2 codec. Result is a wmv file (1.3 GB --> 33 MB).

And the nice part...
Fraps is shareware - have to pay for it but really reasonable.
Virtual Dub is free!
MS MM2 is free if you have Windows XP!

Hope that helps!

Tango, XO
412th FS Braunco Mustangs

Wilbus · « **Reply #20 on:** December 05, 2005, 10:07:59 AM »

Exelent! Thanks alot!

Hopefully I will get around to playing with it but not sure.

WldThing · « **Reply #21 on:** December 05, 2005, 10:17:37 AM »

Damn watching that makes me want to fly so bad, thanks for invigorating those once rusty memories..

straffo · « **Reply #22 on:** December 05, 2005, 02:00:40 PM »

cannot access the site ?

dtango · « **Reply #23 on:** December 05, 2005, 02:17:00 PM »

Straffo:

??? Works OK for me while at work. Try again? Was worried we were hitting a limit on downloads allowed but that's not the case.

Tango, XO
412th FS Braunco Mustangs

Skilless · « **Reply #24 on:** December 05, 2005, 03:05:37 PM »

I got timed out when downloading the hi-res. I don't know what the prob is...

straffo · « **Reply #25 on:** December 05, 2005, 03:37:18 PM »

Got it know dunnot what happened ,perhaps a DNS glitch.

Badboy58 · « **Reply #26 on:** December 05, 2005, 04:53:43 PM »

Great movie dtango:aok

Simaril · « **Reply #27 on:** December 05, 2005, 05:37:15 PM »

A really great flick. WTG

vatiAH · « **Reply #28 on:** December 05, 2005, 11:08:32 PM »

Great job

~~Vati~~

SkyRock · « **Reply #29 on:** December 05, 2005, 11:16:35 PM »

Was a very sweet film!