Film Viewer

[Randy1]

I can't find a help page on using the film viewer.  Is there a page?

I was looking for information concerning the function of "Use Recorded Views"  I had hoped that function would show the actual views I was seeing using the trackir in a good fight in the MA I recorded the other night.

[ImADot]

Help on the viewer is sparse...

Because TrackIR doesn't "click a view button" like if you mapped the view to a hat on your joystick, there isn't any input being recorded in-flight for the film to have available. So there is no way to replay the recorded AH film and see where you were looking with TrackIR.

[DEECONX]

Probably going to need an external recorder like fraps. I would double check though.

[ImADot]

Probably going to need an external recorder like fraps. I would double check though.

I have Fraps, and use it from time to time. Recording your flight in Fraps is cool for "you are there" movies, but it's just a big video file; you cannot move your view around, watch from another perspective, see altitudes and speeds, etc., etc.

[DEECONX]

I have Fraps, and use it from time to time. Recording your flight in Fraps is cool for "you are there" movies, but it's just a big video file; you cannot move your view around, watch from another perspective, see altitudes and speeds, etc., etc.

Well yes. That is what I thought the op was looking for, no? And couldn't you mix and match the scenes from the fraps recording and clips from the film viewer in whatever movie maker program you use?

[Randy1]

Thanks for the replies.  That squares me away on this one.

[ImADot]

Well yes. That is what I thought the op was looking for, no? And couldn't you mix and match the scenes from the fraps recording and clips from the film viewer in whatever movie maker program you use?

Sounded to me like he was wondering why, while using the film viewer, the "use recorded views" wasn't showing his head movement because he uses TrackIR. This was used as the basis of my answer.

And yes, you can make a movie by recording shots from the film viewer and then mixing them in a movie maker program with your Fraps-recorded in-game stuff - but most people just use the film viewer to view a sortie and analyze the fight from different angles and playback speeds.

[DEECONX]

Sounded to me like he was wondering why, while using the film viewer, the "use recorded views" wasn't showing his head movement because he uses TrackIR. This was used as the basis of my answer.

And yes, you can make a movie by recording shots from the film viewer and then mixing them in a movie maker program with your Fraps-recorded in-game stuff - but most people just use the film viewer to view a sortie and analyze the fight from different angles and playback speeds.

Ah, ok I gotchya now.