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General Forums => Films and Screenshots => Topic started by: Bogie603rd on February 17, 2006, 10:20:38 AM
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As the Sucject already says, my question is how to convert an AHII film using the Film Viewer to a windows player format .wmv?
I have already attempted using the windows player codec to extract the file into a .wmv format.... No Success. I don't know what to select, or what i'm looking for.
I have a Windows 2000 Proffesional, with no real movie editors to help me along, and the only codec I have is for Windows Media Player 9. This codec does extract the file to .wmv. But when I go to view it, it either doesent show anything, or it plays for 1 second and repeats.:eek: How do I get this thing started?:confused:
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go to http://www.fraps.com
you can get the free verison of fraps or put out 15 bucks and have no restrictions on its use.
dont bother with the tool in the film viewer. Its junk and troublesome to use.
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Originally posted by Morpheus
go to http://www.fraps.com
you can get the free verison of fraps or put out 15 bucks and have no restrictions on its use.
dont bother with the tool in the film viewer. Its junk and troublesome to use.
yeah, film viewer wont get you any films. what you need to do is open the .ahf in the film viewer, get to the point you want, pause it, set up the camera angles, and then hit play and record with fraps. fraps records straight to avi format, and then to make the movie you string those clips together in an editor. have fun!
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I already looked into Fraps before you mentioned it. Yes, it does seem nice, and I understand what your talking about Pooface. But, I preffer not to spend 15 bucks to get unlimited recording time instead of the 30 second limit. I usually record 2 minutes or more when im shooting a dogfight scene. 30 Seconds just doesent cut it..:(
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Originally posted by Bogie603rd
I already looked into Fraps before you mentioned it. Yes, it does seem nice, and I understand what your talking about Pooface. But, I preffer not to spend 15 bucks to get unlimited recording time instead of the 30 second limit. I usually record 2 minutes or more when im shooting a dogfight scene. 30 Seconds just doesent cut it..:(
well what you do is press the record button as soon as it stops recording lol
it doesnt only give you 30 secs of recording time in the whole usage time, it just means that the clips you record can be a maximum of 30 seconds long. and there is no way you can just convert an ahf into an avi film lol.
fraps is the easy way to do it. the film viewer record is either broken or just impossible to use.
just download fraps, you will see how it works. like i said, the 30 second limit is only on how long your clips can be. you can shoot as many clips as you want
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:rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Morpheus
:rolleyes:
:lol
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recording more than 30 second clips with fraps will cost you miles of harddrive space.
if capturing on good detail levels, record clips between 15-25 seconds maximum, otherwise you might lock up your PC trying to access the huge files.
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Originally posted by B@tfinkV
recording more than 30 second clips with fraps will cost you miles of harddrive space.
if capturing on good detail levels, record clips between 15-25 seconds maximum, otherwise you might lock up your PC trying to access the huge files.
it wont lock up your pc:rolleyes:
however, they arelarge files. 10 long clips can take up several gigabytes of space:lol so after you've made your film and you're happy with it, empty out your fraps clips folder lol
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Originally posted by Pooface
it wont lock up your pc:rolleyes:
however, they arelarge files. 10 long clips can take up several gigabytes of space:lol so after you've made your film and you're happy with it, empty out your fraps clips folder lol
Poof Ace.... depending on your rig, it WILL lock up. Not every one has a top end machine.....
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Originally posted by Pooface
it wont lock up your pc:rolleyes:
yes it will/can.
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only if your hard drive is getting full, or you've got lots of fraps clips in there already
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who ever said either of these scenarios wont be the case.
most people have a fair chunk of HD taken up if they had the PC more than a year.
most times you go to make a movie, you're going to record more than 1 or 2 clips into the fraps file.
yield i say! i outrank you! :p
fancy some flying soon, im just rendering and uploading a cool guncam movie then i'll be ready to steal your kills.
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nah, maybe later on. i gotta go do an exam :rolleyes:
wish me luck!
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:O
:confused:
:noid
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Fraps wont work for me, I already have low frame rates while playing AH with every running program INCLUDING Explorer.exe shut down. Adding Fraps would just decrease it all, plus I dont have that much HD space to save 30 sec films.
Besides, the AH FM isnt impossible to use, Sanjini used it to create his 109 Gun-Cam movie. He just used a common editor to weave it all together after exporting it as .wmv. At least, thats the way I heard it.
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Originally posted by Bogie603rd
Fraps wont work for me, I already have low frame rates while playing AH with every running program INCLUDING Explorer.exe shut down. Adding Fraps would just decrease it all, plus I dont have that much HD space to save 30 sec films.
Besides, the AH FM isnt impossible to use, Sanjini used it to create his 109 Gun-Cam movie. He just used a common editor to weave it all together after exporting it as .wmv. At least, thats the way I heard it.
i dont know anyone who has used the AH film viewer recently. sanjini's film is fairly old. perhaps once it was different, but since i've been trying to make films, it has never worked. search about, maybe someone knows how, but i dont think you'll be able to get it to work
what do you use to play AH. if you need to shut down explore.exe while in H2H, maybe it could be time for an update. you could probably pick up some parts for under $50 that will raise your frame rate a little. sorry, i cant help you here, i have no idea how to make AH film viewer work
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Thanks for the help, and yes, I use H2H mode. Also, I have been thinking about getting some more memory for my comp. But the main reason why I shut down Explorer.exe is because my keyboard has a "windows" key. If you press it while "Explorer.exe" is running, it will send you back to your desktop.
With my low memory, it takes 1 minute to go to desktop, and then return to the game. In that time I could have already been shot down, or any hopes of coming out alive are gone. So fixing the problem is as easy as making the game run faster:rolleyes: .
But once again, thanks for the assistance. Maybe I can contact HTC and work something out and figure out how to make the FM to work. Cause I did contact them once about a bug of "weaving" films together. Whenever I tried to view them, it would generate some kind of a bug in the film. The gladly fixed that, and also in the e-mail alerting me that the bug has been fixed they mentioned that "The AH FM is not very 'user friendly'".
Thanks again to all!:)
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i don't find the process of converting an ahII film to avi using the film viewer to be a problem at all.
but there are a few tricks that i found, that seem to help.
here is the process i use:
example film is 02:21 long, and my kill scene is from 01:15 to 01:55.
step 1
click - use recorded views.
I always make sure my "start select", and "end select" times are in a default foward view, and if that means i have to start select from 01:05 and end select at 2:20 so be it, i'll edit later.
step 2
start select at 01:05 - end select 02:20 -- copy select --- save ---
new film pops up, total duration 01:15.
step 3
start select at 00:00 - end select 01:15 -- edit text/ voice
check remove text -check remove voice. -- click ok
editing complete --click ok
step 4
go to where your new film was saved.. right click -copy -paste to desktop in case your not happy with the film after you capture.
step 5
capture ----click view ---click start
changing views has to be done using a keyboard command.
internal view = v external =f, use whatever keys you want.
zooming = for FOV = needs to be done with a keyboard command.
up/down and left/right sliders need keyboard commands.
distance zoom and FOV zoom can be done with a mouse. FOV works when zoomed in.
snap/pan/instant can work with the mouse.
suppose the film i am making is me chasing someone, and then i zoomed in to get the shot, it will be the same in the film viewer, and you can adjust FOV.
if you have a short film, before you start capturing.. move the time slider to the left so you have time to adjust your film angles, just click the 1x button before you save the captured data.
if you want to pan around with the sliders, make sure your in pan mode, then you go back to snap mode once you have the view you like.
the film will run through --click replay film with captured data --- i always do because sometimes it wont save right if i dont.
the film will run through --click save film with captured data ---
click ok --- click close
step 6
close the film viewer -
step 7
restart the film viewer
click - use recorded views
click - gun cam * if that's what you want
step 8
file- open- film***
step 9
click -Save As Avi- the box below append films
i usually select 640x480 size
and 29,97 fps
click -full frames (uncompressed)
click ok
step 10
open with wmp, or whatever..
open with your video editor - i use power director
It takes a while to get used to, but i've made some pretty decent films. wish i could post them, lol.. but they are large files.
I have a question now.
i got the track ir4 system yesterday, and i noticed that when i record a film and replay it in the film viewer, it is in default view only. Any ideas why?
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Bogie, dont run Fraps while PLAYING. Record the films off the AH film viewer.
And your FR for recording dont have to be that high anyway. Anything above 20 is fine. Also, you can try reducing tex res for recording..... when you render the film and depending on codec, you loose the details anyway.
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Originally posted by Speed55
step 10
open with wmp, or whatever..
open with your video editor - i use power director
Well, that helps... IF I HAD A FILM EDITOR!:mad:
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Originally posted by Schatzi
Bogie, dont run Fraps while PLAYING. Record the films off the AH film viewer.
And your FR for recording dont have to be that high anyway. Anything above 20 is fine. Also, you can try reducing tex res for recording..... when you render the film and depending on codec, you loose the details anyway.
I catch your drift schatzi, just for some reason im not comfortable with fraps... Idk EXACTLY why.:confused:
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Bogie,
i think windows xp has a film editor built into it.
but you should be able to at least view your films with windows media player. At least thats a start :D
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Originally posted by Bogie603rd
Well, that helps... IF I HAD A FILM EDITOR!:mad:
Bogie:
If you have windows XP it comes with Windows Movie Maker. A decent (albiet limited) film editor that lets your splice in different film clips with each other, and even allow control of an audio track to go along with it. Once you're all set you just hit save movie, and it ties it all together for you and creates a WMV file.
Sure, it's no Final Cut Pro, but it's good enough for free. =) If you want an example of a movie made in Windows Movie Maker, look in this forum for my movie. Completely done with Fraps, the AH Film thing, and WMM.
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IDIOTS!!! READ THE WHOLE FORUM!!! I SAID CLEARLY I HAD A WINDOWS 2000..... STOP MAKING ME FEEL SO BAD KNOWING I DONT HAVE AN XP WITH A FREE MOVIE EDITOR:furious :furious