Author Topic: AHfilm - compression - export film (Read 428 times)

Agent360 · « **on:** November 20, 2007, 08:10:46 PM »

What compression setting provides the best quality film?

My computer can't quite handle uncompressed frames.

I have done a few films but cant get a sharp enough quality.

Thanks

Agent360

Kermit de frog · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2007, 10:54:31 PM »

Which programs do you use?

Will your film have a lot of motion or a lot of still pictures with some movement?

What do you mean by your computer can not quite handle uncompressed frames?

Agent360 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 21, 2007, 07:52:12 AM »

I just want to make a little aces high film of some of my kills.

I was reffering to the export to AVI in the film viewer.

The quality of the film viewer is perfect. Of course this is the raw data and getting this quality to come out in the AVI has escaped me.

Once I get the AVI exported I can work on it in another application. So I need the exported AVI to be the best quality possible.

I tried exporting as AVI as "uncompressed" but my computer just chokes.

DarkS1ar · « **Reply #3 on:** November 21, 2007, 11:55:21 AM »

Try the Divx compressor turns out better then the others. Do'nt take up too much memory either. If this is you first time making a movie try making it with microsoft movie maker all you have to do is download it, i think it's free. Don't have too many options for editing but it's easy to use.

i'am assuming that you run out of mem when you use the uncompressed format.

Kermit de frog · « **Reply #4 on:** November 21, 2007, 04:23:09 PM »

Agent, I do not use the Exporter in the Aces High Film Viewer. It can be buggy by creating bad avi files.

An AHF file is complety different than a AVI file.

AHF file saves data such as the plane type, directions, speeds, position, heading stuff like that. Aces High film viewer then recreates the flight log using those 3d planes your computer has stored on its hard drive.

An avi file is a file that stores pictures and put's them together in 1 file. These pictures can be played at a rate of 30 pictures a second. Many codecs (encoder/decoders) will compress these pictures so that you can have a file have 5,000 pictures, and play them 30 pictures a second and still have a very small file size.

I use http://www.fraps.com software and set it up first, then leave it running in the background. Open the film viewer, play your film and record what you see in AHFV with the fraps software. Fraps encodes it with their codec and it does a great job of keeping a 30sec file to about 300Mb. That is way too large for the internet but it can run okay on slower machines. It captures, encodes and saves these files all while running AHFV. YOu can tell fraps to record at half the resolution to allow for a faster performance during recording.

Play with fraps and become familiar with it. I hope I didn't make things more confusing.

I hope the fraps avi files will be easy on your computer so when you use Windows Movie Maker or some other Video editing software, that your computer will handle them. Uncompressed files are hard to handle and are not necessary for the production of high quality internet films.

Agent360 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 21, 2007, 04:33:48 PM »

I thought you had to run fraps while playing the game and recording at the same time.

I now understand I can use fraps with the AHFV. My computer can probably handle that.

Yes, the AHFV crashes about several times before I can get an AVI out of it. And the quality of the avi is not very good.

I am familiar with avi movie making and animation stuff. I can do that part pretty good.

I was just figuring out how to get the AH film exported to an AVI file so I can then start editing.

Now I just have to figure out out to use the new camera feature in AHFV so I can make some cool shots.

Thanks

Agent360 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 21, 2007, 05:14:09 PM »

Just went and downloaded the trial of fraps.

WOW!!!!!!

That is some cool stuff. I had no problem recording the film. A 30 sec clip took about 5 secs to make. It happend so fast I thought it didnt work. LOL

Quality is perfect.

I just noticed that none of my AH films have the sound of my gun firing. All the other sounds are there...engine and the gun sounds of the other fighters. But when I fire my guns in the film there is no gun sound????

How do you get the gun sounds to record when recording in the game??

Thanks