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Offline aknimitz

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Making AVI's out of AH Film?
« on: February 11, 2002, 10:11:04 AM »
Ok, I know this is probably off-topic, but maybe not :)  I was wondereing if anyone had ideas on how to convert an AH film into a smaller, edited AVI file (or mpeg).  AKIron did this using a camera I think ... but I was hoping there migth be some software out there that might let this happen.  I am working on building a massive training website and wanted to be able to demonstrate various basic combat maneuvers without the viewer having to download and then run an AH Film.  Suggestions?

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Offline milnko

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Making AVI's out of AH Film?
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2002, 10:59:38 AM »
I don't think there is any software that'll do what ya want.

All the Desktop AVI software I seen won't capture DirectX applications.

Althought HyperSnap witth screencap DirectX, thier AVI software won't.

There is definately a market for someone to write an application that would, considering how many glide/directX games are out there.
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Offline leon

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visit the Troy GunCam website
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2002, 11:01:01 AM »
Hi Nimitz,

You may visit Troy's Java GunCamera Website and see if it suits you.

Its here: http://www.errthum.com/troy/warbirds/guncam/index.html

There are some performance limitations in place, but try it out, it may work if you are offline and rolling film.

Leon
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Offline Wotan

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Making AVI's out of AH Film?
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2002, 12:51:29 PM »
Heres an what ah looks like using Troy's Java GunCamera

AH.AVI

I doudt its  what your looking for.

It works only when you pull the trigger and takes a series of jpeg images which you convert to gif then use an animator. I then converted that to avi
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Offline Raubvogel

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« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2002, 01:08:36 PM »
Can't you use TV Out to run it to your VCR, then back into your PC?
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Offline Staga

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« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2002, 01:32:47 PM »
I'd say you need a vid-card with tv-out and video-in connectors like Ati Radeon Vivo or Asus DeLuxe cards. I made few films by playing a ahf-file and recording it to video-recorder via Ati's tv-out and then transferring that film from vcr back to computer via video-in connector and recorded it as a mpeg-file with Ati's recorder. Then I converted those mpegs either to wmv-format (with MediaBox) so it could be viewed in any pc with media-player or to rm-format which needs real-player for viewing it. New version of RealProducer costs 200$ but I found older free version from web.
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Offline maik

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Making AVI's out of AH Film?
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2002, 02:10:21 PM »
read the news guys;)
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Offline BigGun

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« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2002, 03:25:00 PM »
Sounds like when 1.09 comes out you will be able to create & edit AVIs all you want. Now the big question is WHEN?
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Offline AKIron

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« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2002, 04:10:07 PM »
Good news from Pyro indeed. Really been wanting to convert those AH films to avi for a while.

Took a look at guncam, pretty cool. There is also a commercial product, Camtasia, that works in similar fashion.

Here's a split-s recorded in guncam:
Guncam Split-S

And here's one done with a web cam pointing at the monitor:
Split-S with web cam

Both of those examples leave something to be desired. Anxiously awaiting the new film viewer/editor. Pyro, please drop everything else and finish that first.  ;)
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Offline Wardog

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Making AVI's out of AH Film?
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2002, 04:45:48 PM »
forgot about guncam. Used it a few times in WBs but frame rate took hugh hits when using it. So many guys said that it wouldnt do color, but i seem to have got mine to work ok in color with an AMD K6-2 350 and  a TNT card.

Still have at least 1 of those guncam films left, ill have to look for it now :)

Dog out..........
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Offline Sancho

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« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2002, 06:15:02 PM »
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Originally posted by AKIron
Good news from Pyro indeed. Really been wanting to convert those AH films to avi for a while.


Yep, saving to AVI has been on my wishlist for a while.  I'm stoked to see it on there.  Whether the film editor works with films from older versions will remain to be seen; previous updates to AH have made older films unviewable.  Still, this is great news.
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