Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Films and Screenshots => Topic started by: faminz on March 19, 2002, 02:09:03 AM
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I need instructions please. I play my film and I assume I use start select and end select to define a clip, I move around outside the plane as it plays. Then having stopped it with end select I clcik on "save as AVI file" choose a cpmpression and a codec (windows 293 and 291 so far) and it replays the file again!!! Ok i do the swivling around again and assume its saving BUt when i check the avi file in the films directory it has 0 bytes.
I assumed that if the codec was shown then I had it. true?
How is one supposed to actually create a film. can you list a set of simple instructions please hitech?
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I'm having the exact same problem . A lil help please .
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I gave up trying to save a clip. I did manage to get an AVi file by selecting on the file menu the Save As AVI option which saved the entire film as an AVI, my problem is when I view the AVI, I have a double image on screen and the color is , well, not right.
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Big friggin size 12 1/2 BOOT.
I actually saved about 30 seconds of one on accident, but I'm not sure I can recreate the same conditions purposefully.
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ICKID wrote this:
"I gave up trying to save a clip. I did manage to get an AVi file by selecting on the file menu the Save As AVI option which saved the entire film as an AVI, my problem is when I view the AVI, I have a double image on screen and the color is , well, not right."
Me too. EXACTLY the same thing. Bummer....
-Peabody-
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Originally posted by ICKID
I gave up trying to save a clip. I did manage to get an AVi file by selecting on the file menu the Save As AVI option which saved the entire film as an AVI, my problem is when I view the AVI, I have a double image on screen and the color is , well, not right.
Switch your desktop to 32-bit color
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How do I save a film as an avi, I have the same problem as Faminz
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Switch your desktop to 32-bit color
And what if you desktop doesnt have 32 bit?
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I think you are screwed :( TRy to setr it as high as it goes
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go to control panel, monitor, setting, 32 bit color is an optionit's an option. However even after setting 32 bit colors, there is no difference. I can create an AVI but the result is a double image, side by side and the color is totally incorrect. HiTec. you need to explain the file viewer..
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go to control panel, monitor, setting, 32 bit color
I did that and 24bit is as high as it goes,I still get lines all over .avi file and split screen effect so i guess im SCREWED as far as using film editor untill i hve $1000.00 for better computer.
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Originally posted by ICKID
go to control panel, monitor, setting, 32 bit color is an optionit's an option. However even after setting 32 bit colors, there is no difference. I can create an AVI but the result is a double image, side by side and the color is totally incorrect. HiTec. you need to explain the file viewer..
remember to save AVI after you switch to 32-bits. If the film was made at lower than 32 it remains screwed up even after you switch, you have to re-make it
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OK, thanks, that seems to have fixed my problem. with double image or side by side image and color, but I could still use a set of instructions that explain all the functions.
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I have a feeling that is gonna be mostly a "figure it out your damn self" type thing. Which is no big deal, if it just plain worked. I can figure it out, but the bugs are making it next to worthless. :(
Really, there's not much to figure out. There aren't that many functions.
What exactly are you having problems with?
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It has a HELP button :)
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I agree that it could be figured out. But as a group the users of Aces High do pay for their software and services about $6000.00 a month collectively by my calculations. So we should at least expect instructions for all software provided with the game, we are the customer, AH is the vendor providing the service.
That said, what is the difference between opening a file with the film menu vs the file menu, is there a difference? The File Menu offers the create AVI while the start select tab and end select tab seem to be selfexplainitory, why does the film start to play again when I select the End Select Tab? do I have to watch it a second time. How is it that very few of the Codesc result in produceing a AVI. The file size always seems to be zero at completion of the process.
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well I finally got it to work. Set my desktop settings to 32bit (as suggested) and then used the start and stop select to create a clip of a longer film. This was saved just as another film or .ahf file. THEN open that new shorter film and did a save as AVI using the onscreen button (not the menu pick, tho thats prolly OK too..) and while it played I went outside and round the plane etc to get the best views. I saved it using 12fps and microsoft video 1 codec. You can tell its doing it ok as it doesnt run thru fast. It takes time and is obviously doing something (1.2Ghz athlon + GeForce 2 GTS pro). This resulted in an avi file with about 8 Mb bytes, and when I opened it (by double clicking on it in windows explorer) lo and behold windows media player opened up and there it was. I then used Real producer to convert this to a .rm file of just 257k (yes I lost an awful lot of resolution but I wanted it to post to my squad website). I then uploaded it to the website and created the associated .RAM file to point to it for streaming (thats a simple 1 line text file for the path to the .ram video), uploaded that as well, linked to it from my flms page and there it was !!! a very rough (VERY ROUGH) Typhoon hitting a train video.
You can see it at http://www.52kiwi.cjb.net on the films page.
Phew!!!