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General Forums => Films and Screenshots => Topic started by: Reynolds on September 07, 2006, 04:41:53 AM
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Okay, i just downloaded Fraps. I have Windows Movie Maker. I have my .ahf ready. What the hell do I do next? Can someone walk me through the process of makin a movie, with one song? Nothing fancy. Thanks. Step by step please.
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Okay, I THINK I understand. But how do I add music?
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You need to import a song file same as you import the FRAPS-avis. Its needs to be in some media file format (like wma or mp3). I dont believe you can import cda files directly from an audio CD.
Then you can add it to the Audio/Music track simply by drag-and-drop from the library (not sure thats what its called in English, i got the German version). You can edit the audio track same as the video track.
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Use windows movie maker and click import music file and drag it over to the music bar.
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Thanks. Im putting the finisheing touch on my first try now!
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Okay, I used Itunes to rip the music, but its in MPEG4 I think format. How do I convert it?
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The film is Mpeg4?
Or the music in m4a (Itunes format)? IIRC WMM cant import that. Im not smart enough with ITunes... dont know if you can get it to convert it to mp3.
Back when i made my films, i used Yamp to rip the track from CD. Its freeware.
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Doh! You can just use Windows Media Player to "rip" the CD with the "copy from CD" function (again not sure if thats translated right). That will create a wma file that you can import into WMM.
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Okay. I fked up. You need to keep the fraps files until you are done with the movie, right?
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Originally posted by Reynolds
Okay. I fked up. You need to keep the fraps files until you are done with the movie, right?
yes ;)
don't worry, lots of us make that mistake the first time :D
don't delete the fraps clips until you've made the FINAL version. quite a few guys will make their vid, post it for advice and constructive critisism, then make the changes to the film, and creating the final version. once the final is fully rendered and saved, only then do you delete the fraps files ;)
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Phew, deleted them, but didnt empty recycle bin. Its done, posted on youtube. How long before it can eb viewed?
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Hope this helps
10-12-2004 07:08 PM
Movie Making Help
*Preface*
I don't claim or think I know everything there is to know about film making with video software. There are many people out there that can probably do it better than I can. I just wanted to put this out there for the beginners, like I was at one time, to help them out. Maybe Pyro or Skuzzy will sticky this if it is good enough. This is the way I do my movies:
1. Formulate a plan.
First off you need to think of what you are going to do. Film your flights. Watch them a couple of times, and see what in that AH film you think is good enough to put onto video. Write down something like a script so you can see what your going to do with it.
2. Music Selection.
Music selection is a big thing, it will make or break your movie. Music has a major impact on how you make your movie. Listen to it a couple of times.. believe me you will get sick of it by the time you are done with everything. Pop songs are good, but if you want to make an impact, look for something other than that. For something quick it will work.
3a. Capturing AH films.
There are many ways of doing this. One way is exporting your movie to AVI from the film viewer. First you want to set the time at which point you want to start the AVI, and then set an end point. Before this first you want to take out the voice chatter, it will take out the annoying name that comes up in the top right corner of the screen. Watch it a couple of times play with the views that you want before you save as an AVI. After you have that all set and done, save it as an AVI. It will ask you what codec you want to save it as.. that is up to you. Play around with it and see what is best for your computer. As you are saving it as an AVI make sure you do all the views that you were using before. Keep it down under a minute or you will get an error message in your default AVI player (AH1) I don't know if it is the same in AH2. It should save to your films folder in HTC.
3b. Fraps
Fraps is another option to use when capturing video. Fraps is a screen capture program. You can get it at http://www.fraps.com, there is a free version (1.9) or purchased version (2.0). The free version doesn't record sound. Make sure you don't record for very long in fraps because it does take up a lot of memory and it will run into the Gigabytes. It will record game screen res from 1024 x 768 down to the smallest res, but the best res is 640 x 480. It writes the code to a file and will fill up fast. Using with AH viewer it is easy. Load up fraps then load up film viewer. You should have a number come up in the top right or left hand corner showing frame rates of the film. When recording it will slow down to the filming speed. You can set hot keys so all you have to do is push it and it will start the record.
4. Virtual Dub
I am still learning myself about this, but you can take the film you recorded from fraps and compress your AVI to the codec of your choice. The most common is Divx and Xivd, available at http://www.divx.com. There are add on filters that you can us with it to smooth out some of the rough stuff in your video. Just play around with it to get to the point where you want it.
5. Film Editing
This is the most common question asked. Most people use Windows Movie Maker to edit their video. You can go from the top, Adobe Premeire and Sony Vegas, not cheap, to Sony Screenblast and Windows Movie Maker. Movie Maker is a free download from Microsoft site. I am still making my videos with movie maker. It just depends on how much you want to put into and spend on it. The artistic content of your movies is up to you. The only thing I can add is, don't rush it to get it out... I have done that a lot. Take your time and make sure YOUR happy with it.
6. Hosting
Hosting a film is something of an easy thing. You can get a website or FTP site that will allow you to broadcast it across the web. Just watch if you do make a quality movie you will take a big bandwidth hit. You can also look for some site that hosts films like NetAces.org. There are some free sites that you can use to broadcast it over the internet.
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Okay, it says my movie is up, but when I try to click it, it says it is unavailable. Whats up?
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Does youtube not allow swearing? Cause the music I used is eminem unscensorred.