Thanx fellas! Glad you all liked em.
LLBM....
I was carrying gondolas
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Sancho...
I was going to try to get more exterior shots in this flick, but as always, it was 3am when I finally got the movie close to being done, and I just went ahead with what footage I had already taken. This was a looong movie (5 minutes) and it's pretty hard to keep good action in all of the 5 minutes.
My squad are working on a P47 jabo flick right now. After that I plan to do a B17 bombing run. I have goozles of historic footage on B17's.
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Lepaul....
Making the films is pretty complex. There's one thing you have to have, a video card with a video-out and video-in port. They generally cost about 200 bucks. Its more
or less a modified 3d card. Mines an ATI All-In-Wonder 128. After you get
the card, there's several things you gotta do....
For the video:
You'll have to hook up your vcr to the video out port. Record your sorties onto
videotape. When you've got all the videotape you need, you'll need to use an
editing program. I used CAMTASIA. Its a free download off the net, and works
like a dream. You use it to splice all your shots together. You'll need to
have your song picked out that your'e going to use while your'e editing your
video (so you'll know exactly how long to make the video), making it match
the length of the song. Your video will be in AVI format now.
For the audio:
Your audio will have to be in WAV format, if you have an MP3 (like on
napster.com) you can download WINAMP (another free download) it is the only
software that I know of that will change an MP3 to a WAV file.
Ok, now you got your video the same length as your audio. To combine them
together, i used a program called DUBIT (yet another free download) to
combine the music and the video. After you've done this, you have a kik butt
looking video complete with music. The only problem is the beeeaatch is your
AVI is anywhere from 200-800 megabytes. Waaaaay too big. You'll need to download REALPRODUCER (free again) off the web. This will compress your 200-800 meg AVI into an .rm file (realmedia) that is ideally 15 meg or less. Its then ready for the web.
As far as my system specs, just 800mhz CPU, 32 meg ati video card. The videos are all shot in 800X600, as this is the highest resolution the video card can run in "TV" mode, that might explain some of the fluidity.
Gotta give credit to milenko, he pioneered this stuff.
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Torque, I was gonna do that too, but it was way late, and I didn't feel like it, will in the future though
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