films with clipboard visible

[flatiron1]

I want to make a film with the clipboard visible. The only way I know to do that is to use fraps during the actual flight. I then use windows movie maker to piece the different segments together. Here is where the problem comes in. It looks great until i publish it. Then the final product is kinda fuzzy and hard to read the wording on the clip board.


When I am making a normal film with out the clip board i use fraps to film the ah2 film and it turn out good. But I can't do that if I want the clipboard because it does not show up in the ah2 film.

Any ideas?

What I am attempting to do is make a training film.


One other question I have the bought version of fraps but it still breaks a long film into segment maybe 3 minutes long. Is this right.  I thought it would just keep recording in one continuous film.

[lengro]

It looks great until i publish it. Then the final product is kinda fuzzy and hard to read the wording on the clip board.

Publish where - YouTube? For best quality YouTube recommends a resolution of at least 1280x720 - or even better 1920x1080.

If you with publish means, from a MovieMaker project to a finished video on your hardrive - your MovieMaker settings should be set to a higher resolution / lesser compression.

Tip 1: Especially with text, it's a good rule of thumb, to keep the resolution of the final product equal to the resolution of the original.
Tip 2: Within AH you can make the clipboard bigger - making it easier to read in the final film.

One other question I have the bought version of fraps but it still breaks a long film into segment maybe 3 minutes long. Is this right.  I thought it would just keep recording in one continuous film.

It's normal behavior for the licensed FRAPS version . It does record continuously, but to avoid to big files on you hard drive, it continues in a new file when a certain size is reached.  Just piece the parts together.

I hope this helps

[flatiron1]

Thanks. By publish I mean going from project to finished video.


When I put the video out will probably be with something  like media fire for download as it will fairly long.

[Traveler]

I have made several films for the 113th Lucky Strikes.  When I wanted to use the clipboard or kneeboard in a shot, I would use the alt S key to take a snapshot which created a .jpg  of the Kneeboard.   I'd blend that .jpg into the clip using MS Movie Maker, it's free software that comes with most of the OS.  I do the same for films that include Mission briefings where I might show aerialshots of an airfield or town.  Movie Maker allow mixing .jpeg and .vis files. 

Hopes this helps