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Title: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: nrshida on February 22, 2013, 09:58:37 AM
How on Earth do you make an avi from the film viewer? When I click on the 'Save As Avi...' button all that happens after I've selected the options is that the film length counter goes to one second and the programme doesn't seem to do anything else. The filename I tried to save it under does not appear and that's about it.

What am I doing wrong?

Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: Pand on February 22, 2013, 10:42:40 AM
How on Earth do you make an avi from the film viewer? When I click on the 'Save As Avi...' button all that happens after I've selected the options is that the film length counter goes to one second and the programme doesn't seem to do anything else. The filename I tried to save it under does not appear and that's about it.

What am I doing wrong?


I've never had that work successfully... I use the film viewer to VIEW the film, and utilize FRAPS to record it.
Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: nrshida on February 22, 2013, 10:44:49 AM
Ah roger. Fraps, thanks Pand.  :salute

Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: Babalonian on February 22, 2013, 10:45:04 AM
I know little-to-nothing about the film viewer or AH films, but...

Aces High Bulletin Board (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php) > General Forums (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php#3) > Films and Screenshots (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/board,77.0.html)

Check the stickies or similar threads first.  If you can't find your answer easily, post a new thread with your question.

Edit: I'm pretty sure the film viewer has an export feature.  No fraps needed.
Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: nrshida on February 22, 2013, 10:54:30 AM
Thanks I'll take a look although the search feature is fubar.

Bah. Fraps is limited to 30 seconds of video on the trial version. Phooey.

Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: Babalonian on February 22, 2013, 11:00:37 AM
Thanks I'll take a look although the search feature is fubar.

Bah. Fraps is limited to 30 seconds of video on the trial version. Phooey.


I don't know much, but I do know that.  :furious  :bhead  Good luck!
Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: Sunka on February 22, 2013, 01:34:53 PM
You used to be able to compress and set up views right from the AH film viewer,but like 2 years ago they changed it so you had to use fraps or something,i asked them to fix it but i got smart arse replies from HTC.I think there in bed with the fraps company.

 :headscratch:

 :bolt:
Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: JOACH1M on February 24, 2013, 10:15:51 AM
download MSI afterburner and use that to capture the video. The only problem is that it doesn't record sound.
Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: nrshida on February 24, 2013, 11:55:42 AM
Thanks buddy, Dolby already pointed me in this direction  :salute

Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: Skuzzy on February 26, 2013, 04:51:19 PM
You used to be able to compress and set up views right from the AH film viewer,but like 2 years ago they changed it so you had to use fraps or something,i asked them to fix it but i got smart arse replies from HTC.I think there in bed with the fraps company.

 :headscratch:

 :bolt:

This is not accurate.  You can still setup views in the film viewer.  Converting the AHF to AVI is only problematic as it has to do with the encoder chosen.  It could be done better.

We have no business association with Fraps.
Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: Sunka on February 26, 2013, 05:10:43 PM
This is not accurate.  You can still setup views in the film viewer.  Converting the AHF to AVI is only problematic as it has to do with the encoder chosen.  It could be done better.

We have no business association with Fraps.
:lol
Ah,well you used to be able to set up all the views  nice and easy never NEEDING frapes.But no matter what encoder i use now you cant SEE when saving to AVI so no setting up views,you guys changed (if so why?) or broke something.No matter  :banana:
Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: Skuzzy on February 28, 2013, 06:17:05 AM
:lol
Ah,well you used to be able to set up all the views  nice and easy never NEEDING frapes.But no matter what encoder i use now you cant SEE when saving to AVI so no setting up views,you guys changed (if so why?) or broke something.No matter  :banana:

You can still setup all the views in the film viewer.  I'll test to see what is going on with the conversion.  If it is broken, it was not intentional.
Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: Skuzzy on February 28, 2013, 01:22:23 PM
Ok folks, here we go.

The film viewer can convert AHF to AVI, but you have to use the "Microsoft Video 1" CODEC in order to do so.  I am testing all the CODECS and so far the ones that fail are the H.261 and H.263.

It does take a long time to convert the file to AVI.  Be patient.  The time slider in the film viewer will increment along as work progresses.

We also lack any 16:9 aspect ratio selections in the conversion panel.  I'll add that to the 'todo' list.
Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: Skuzzy on February 28, 2013, 02:00:13 PM
See http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,346137.0.html for more details.
Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: Sunka on February 28, 2013, 02:20:20 PM
You can still setup all the views in the film viewer.  I'll test to see what is going on with the conversion.  If it is broken, it was not intentional.
Okay so I'll test this later,so you can SEE the views you are setting up to AVI now? Maybe 2 years ago you could set the views so you could see them and save em to AVI, then something changed ( even if you could find a good codec you could not see the view's anymore) like i said i brought it up when it happend but know one there seemed to care much.
 :salute
Title: Re: Making an avi from ahf
Post by: Skuzzy on February 28, 2013, 03:03:47 PM
Okay so I'll test this later,so you can SEE the views you are setting up to AVI now? Maybe 2 years ago you could set the views so you could see them and save em to AVI, then something changed ( even if you could find a good codex you could not see the view's anymore) like i said i brought it up when it happend but know one there seemed to care much.
 :salute

I just went in and setup a custom shot, checked the "Stream shot to AVI", pressed the "Play Shot" button, selected the correct CODEC and it recorded that custom camera shot just fine.

The difference when working with custom camera shots is you use the "Film Shots" panel for all the camera setup and recording.  If you use the normal "File" option to save the AVI, then you get nothing but the stock camera view.