Eureka!!! Partial success. I was able to turn an .ahf of a 2 spit dogfight into an .avi Best as I can recall this is what I did;
1. Loaded film
2. Ran through entire film to see what was in it and made a men-
tal EDL (Edit Decision List)
3. Ran film past preliminary b.s. and clicked on start select at the
point were I wanted to start the .avi
4. Clicked on start select
5. Using the view radius buttons I selected various views including from my victims perspective
6. At the end I clicked on End Select
7. Clicked on Copy Select
8. Clicked on Save as .avi
9. Selected the 2nd MS MPG compressor, 640x480 (full screen VHS) and 30 fps (NTSC = 29.97)
At the end I closed the editor and looked in the film directory. There was the .avi in all it's glory.
ALAS! NO SOUND on the clip
This was a bit of an experimental hack job and I really wish there was a manual to define the function of various things on the editor e.g. to the left of trail there is a slider and I have no clue what it does. Help tells you nothing other than copyright and version info. With no help file you ofcourse have no idea of how Append films might work etc. or for that matter you have no way of knowing initially that you're not going to get any sound. The work around is to record a .wav file of the sound while running the film in .ahf format, then add that .wav file to the sound track when using your .avi editing program e.g. Premiere or Pinnacle Studio or whatever freebies are recommended here.
There is also no known way of including the text message window.
Don't let my listing of these negatives make you think that I don't value the amazing job HT has done on this first version. Believe me, I've been hacking around these kind of programs for years and this is truly amazing. My ultimate wish is that instead of doing what I've had to do previously e.g. output to my DV camcorder via SVHS at 640x480, then recapture into computer via IEEE 1394, edit and do post production work e.g. music soundtrack and narration, I want a one step solution to create .avis at the same resolution which I normally see on my screen 1024 x 768 or higher.
Being able to crankout that kind of quality would be a tremendous help for HTC's marketing efforts. Imagine being able to distribute DVDs or even VCDs with these grandiose productions on them. Let people send for them, download them or if the budget permits place them in obvious places e.g. flight schools for people to see.
Beeg
Originally posted by Seeker
"Here's the film I posted earlier "
Brilliant! Worked fine for me (winXP), I can't wait to see how a training library built with this looks!
Can you give a step by step instruction for making that film? The only film I've got to work so far was uncompressed - and quickly filled 3 gigs.......
The image definition is a bit grainy (what resolution was that?), but the close ups look fine.
Without a doubt, the most significant new feature in the last year.
