Author Topic: Bigmax's Mission (Read 889 times)

hblair · « **on:** January 16, 2001, 10:12:00 AM »

Another Realplayer movie, shot in Real Time from The Assassins Squadron. I threw this one together late last night.

This one is 2:55 in length, 7.4 megabytes. It is the capture of A53 in the main arena by the rooks last night, 01/15/01, which was a hard fought capture. Although our CV was parked right offshore, our C47's kept getting picked off on their way in. I finally grabbed one myself and took the long way around, I made it to the field and dropped my drunkards in. One of them was apparently mistakenly shot by a fellow countrymen. We weren't about to give up though, I flew my goon over to our CV, landed on the ropes, took in 10 more intoxicated men, then took off from the CV to capture A35.

(thats in the movie too)

Yeah, I know I gamed the game, but it aint like I had any choice.

Anyways, Click on the link below, then click on "hblair's Movies" on the left bar, and it's the last movie in the list.

Thanks all,
hblair

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miko2d · « **Reply #1 on:** January 16, 2001, 12:52:00 PM »

Very nice.
Is there a way to save those movies on my HD?

miko

Wlfgng · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2001, 12:58:00 PM »

Right-click the link and choose "Save Target as..." and give it a name.

hblair · « **Reply #3 on:** January 16, 2001, 04:26:00 PM »

Thanks miko, This was a spur of the moment movie. I thought it would only take an hour or so, as always, I was up half the night

The next one will have the game sounds as well as roger wilco conversation included. I've been considering putting together some training movies fer newbies. My kids are about to throw me out of the house because I keep stealing their VCR.

Tac · « **Reply #4 on:** January 16, 2001, 04:29:00 PM »

hblair, any chance of getting your videos in AVI format?

Or any way to convert them to AVI?

jihad · « **Reply #5 on:** January 16, 2001, 04:55:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Tac:
hblair, any chance of getting your videos in AVI format?

Or any way to convert them to AVI?

MPEG would be better,mpegs are smaller than avi files,<modem user> I have Xing MPEG Encoder 2.20 if you need it hblair.

hblair · « **Reply #6 on:** January 17, 2001, 07:19:00 AM »

Shoot me a link to that encoder jihad. Avi's are way huge Tac, and I'm on a modem.

Jay_76 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 17, 2001, 07:26:00 AM »

HBlair,

Use DivX 3.11 AVI compression. its a Mpeg-4 hack, and with the right settings you'll get 1 meg of size per minute of video, full sound and high res. Yes, I'm serious... BUT it won't work with a Mac at all, and people who want to see the film will have to install the codec too.
http://divx.ctw.cc

*(For the record, there's a newer DivX codec coming soon, currently called "Project Mayo".)

I've used this one extensively with CGI and composited videos for fanfilms... I did a 5 minute news show for another online club that rang in at 5.5 megs, at 400X300 resolution, with stereo 22 Mhz sound. Try doing that in MOV or RealPlayer.

*S* and regards,

Jay.

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GrinBird · « **Reply #8 on:** January 17, 2001, 07:37:00 AM »

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Shoot me a link to that encoder jihad. Avi's are way huge Tac, and I'm on a modem.

You use Camtasia Hblair? - I used Camtasia too, and was able to save in DivX;-) format.
DivX;-) is way the best format for high resolution movies, and they appear as AVI files, but way more compressed than plain AVIs offcourse. To see what DivX;-) can do be sure to watch 405themovie Even if you are not interestet in new video codecs you should see this film, as it is made by two happy amateurs and is very funny and impressive.

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GrinBird · « **Reply #9 on:** January 17, 2001, 07:40:00 AM »

Dang Jay you beat me to it

Yes DivX is the way to go.

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Jay_76 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 17, 2001, 09:06:00 AM »

A little more on DivX- it does for AVI what MP3 did for WAVs: that is to say, it compresses the information into a smaller file, size being dictated by the bitrate. Think about MP3s... most you get are 128 kbit, and that gives you about 3 megs for 3 minutes of audio. For the same in 44 hz WAV, you'd be looking at 50 megs. If you raise the bitrate to 196 or higher, the file gets much bigger, quick.

DivX does the same. It limits the bitrate to a much lower level (something onto the order of 900 kbit by default, you can go as low as 500 without much degeneration in the video), plus it allows you to encode the audio to a MP3 format. Believe it or not, most AVI-video codecs will allow you to play with the bitrate, but you lose out in crappy sound compressions (This is why MOV files are catching up in quality and size to DivX AVI). The real selling point for DivX video is that it really handles motion well in the video: whereas most other codecs are full of artifacts at low bitrates, DivX is really clear and workable down to about 500 kbits.

The readme file in DivX has more info on how to get the most out of it. Another program that's related (and darn useful) is http://www.geocities.com/virtualdub/

*S* and regards

Jay.

hblair · « **Reply #11 on:** January 17, 2001, 09:10:00 AM »

Thanx for the info. I'll sure give it a look!

Moose11 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 17, 2001, 10:08:00 AM »

Ya know HB, when I suggested to rearm on the carrier I wasn't serious!

BigMax and I both upped in C47s and were otw when you said you were able to take off. I don't think we would have been able to get back in time!

BigMax · « **Reply #13 on:** January 18, 2001, 01:52:00 PM »

Great Flick HB,
I guess i'll have to learn all this cool stuff so as to not get left by the wayside...

BigMax - Thank HTC for CVs - Out!

Author Topic: Bigmax's Mission (Read 889 times)

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