Author Topic: How to make films using FRAPS and Windows Movie Maker (Read 8395 times)

noTch · « **Reply #30 on:** May 08, 2007, 05:26:24 PM »

Thanx Husky, turning off film viewer was the trick. It looks real cool and will have it on here real soon:aok

Husky01 · « **Reply #31 on:** May 08, 2007, 05:48:24 PM »

Glad that I could help!:aok

eh · « **Reply #32 on:** May 08, 2007, 10:12:04 PM »

I am really interested in all of this, and have a question. How do you zoom in for a closeup of a plane without getting the gross distortion that Aces High zoom gives you, such as greatly oversized or elongated wings, etc? That has ruined every attempt I have done to make a good film.

A lot of great flight sim combat films have overcome this problem (Warbirds and IL2 for example), but only a few of them are in Aces High. Do I need some other software, such as Adobe Premier, to do it?

Thanks in advance for help.

Husky01 · « **Reply #33 on:** May 08, 2007, 10:25:45 PM »

I to have had the same problem. One of the things that can you can do to help is when your recoding from aces high film viewer make sure the aces high film viewer is in full screen that will make the planes more symmetrical. In some ways, it wont 100% but it will help.

TinmanX · « **Reply #34 on:** May 09, 2007, 01:26:50 AM »

Or....

Just press the 'Z' key.

eh · « **Reply #35 on:** May 09, 2007, 11:46:17 AM »

cc Husky01, that does help a little. I am going to try a FRAPS film clip in Adobe Premier, and use that to crop and zoom in. Detail may suffer a bit but it should work.

TinmanX, pressing the Z key when in Film Viewer (External View) and then zooming in gives as much distortion as it does in external view offline. If Aces High could just fix that one problem, it would help a lot of guys to make great films!

TinmanX · « **Reply #36 on:** May 09, 2007, 12:09:20 PM »

I have to say that I have never experienced that. Perhaps you could post some screenshots as an example?

Husky01 · « **Reply #37 on:** May 09, 2007, 01:21:49 PM »

Ok here ya go Tinman.

Notice that in picture 1 when the aces high film view isnt not at full screen how the nose of teh ME-262 looks extremely elongated.

Now when we make film viewer full size notice how it does not fix the problem 100% but it does make it alot better.

TinmanX · « **Reply #38 on:** May 09, 2007, 05:02:08 PM »

Well, here's how it loosk on my screen. I've tried to re-create the same shot you used for comparison;

Film Viewer shots;

No Z pressed;

Z pressed;

Full screen;

No Z pressed;

Z pressed;

As you can see, I am not having the issues that you are having with scale. It's almost as if your screen resolution settings are set to 16:9 but your film viewer is still displaying in 4:3.

Husky01 · « **Reply #39 on:** May 09, 2007, 05:05:49 PM »

Thats cause my window isnt not opened all the way im not talking the whole screen being a picture im talking about the whole screen being the aces high film viewer program. I was stating that if you do it that way it will make things look distorted.

toadkill · « **Reply #40 on:** May 09, 2007, 05:43:07 PM »

Nice skin there Tinman

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Der Galland Zirkus.
Herr Galland himself.

TinmanX · « **Reply #41 on:** May 09, 2007, 09:08:32 PM »

Still not really getting any scale issue;

sqwigly · « **Reply #42 on:** May 27, 2007, 04:44:41 AM »

ok,ive read and read, but i just cant find it.i just want to know how i get my views saved. I want to be able to change the views within the ah editor befor i do anything with it. the instructions explain it,but im just not getting it.

help please

sqwigly · « **Reply #43 on:** May 28, 2007, 10:38:13 PM »

ok i got it,thanks for the frapee
heres my first rough try,not finished,need more fotage,but ithought id share to say thanks.

test

Sketch · « **Reply #44 on:** May 28, 2007, 10:45:00 PM »

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Originally posted by -CodyC
Well i came up with an unfortunate solution. I am going to have to make the movie into a two parter, we'll see how it turns out.

What do you mean Cody? What program are you using to actually put the movie together?