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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: aknimitz on February 11, 2002, 10:11:04 AM
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Ok, I know this is probably off-topic, but maybe not :) I was wondereing if anyone had ideas on how to convert an AH film into a smaller, edited AVI file (or mpeg). AKIron did this using a camera I think ... but I was hoping there migth be some software out there that might let this happen. I am working on building a massive training website and wanted to be able to demonstrate various basic combat maneuvers without the viewer having to download and then run an AH Film. Suggestions?
Nim
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I don't think there is any software that'll do what ya want.
All the Desktop AVI software I seen won't capture DirectX applications.
Althought HyperSnap witth screencap DirectX, thier AVI software won't.
There is definately a market for someone to write an application that would, considering how many glide/directX games are out there.
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Hi Nimitz,
You may visit Troy's Java GunCamera Website and see if it suits you.
Its here: http://www.errthum.com/troy/warbirds/guncam/index.html
There are some performance limitations in place, but try it out, it may work if you are offline and rolling film.
Leon
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Heres an what ah looks like using Troy's Java GunCamera
AH.AVI (http://personal.jax.bellsouth.net/jax/t/y/tyr88/f1.AVI)
I doudt its what your looking for.
It works only when you pull the trigger and takes a series of jpeg images which you convert to gif then use an animator. I then converted that to avi
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Can't you use TV Out to run it to your VCR, then back into your PC?
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I'd say you need a vid-card with tv-out and video-in connectors like Ati Radeon Vivo or Asus DeLuxe cards. I made few films by playing a ahf-file and recording it to video-recorder via Ati's tv-out and then transferring that film from vcr back to computer via video-in connector and recorded it as a mpeg-file with Ati's recorder. Then I converted those mpegs either to wmv-format (with MediaBox (http://www.e-soft.co.uk/)) so it could be viewed in any pc with media-player or to rm-format which needs real-player for viewing it. New version of RealProducer costs 200$ but I found older free version from web.
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read the news guys;)
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Sounds like when 1.09 comes out you will be able to create & edit AVIs all you want. Now the big question is WHEN?
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Good news from Pyro indeed. Really been wanting to convert those AH films to avi for a while.
Took a look at guncam, pretty cool. There is also a commercial product, Camtasia, that works in similar fashion.
Here's a split-s recorded in guncam:
Guncam Split-S (http://lynn.freewebspace.com/stuff/splits2.avi)
And here's one done with a web cam pointing at the monitor:
Split-S with web cam (http://lynn.freewebspace.com/stuff/split-s.avi)
Both of those examples leave something to be desired. Anxiously awaiting the new film viewer/editor. Pyro, please drop everything else and finish that first. ;)
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forgot about guncam. Used it a few times in WBs but frame rate took hugh hits when using it. So many guys said that it wouldnt do color, but i seem to have got mine to work ok in color with an AMD K6-2 350 and a TNT card.
Still have at least 1 of those guncam films left, ill have to look for it now :)
Dog out..........
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Originally posted by AKIron
Good news from Pyro indeed. Really been wanting to convert those AH films to avi for a while.
Yep, saving to AVI has been on my wishlist for a while. I'm stoked to see it on there. Whether the film editor works with films from older versions will remain to be seen; previous updates to AH have made older films unviewable. Still, this is great news.