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Title: arado 234 meets its fate
Post by: Sancho on March 19, 2002, 09:09:48 AM

Here's guncam of an Arado 234 shot down by Ammo's P-47:

film (http://www.56thfightergroup.net/films/guncam_ammo_arado234-010414.avi) (815kb divx (http://www.divx.com/) file)

you gotta love the way the armor piercing incendiaries light that thing up. If this had a soundtrack, it would be AC/DC "Shot down in flames". :D

Title: arado 234 meets its fate
Post by: Seeker on March 19, 2002, 09:13:51 AM

Lovely!

How did you make it, share! dammit :)

Title: arado 234 meets its fate
Post by: Sancho on March 19, 2002, 09:24:41 AM

How I made it:

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• recorded avi in film viewer using high motion divx (or was it low motion?? can't remember).  During record I moved the view so you only see over the nose.  Going for a guncam effect here, not in the cockpit view.  Never mind that the guncam for the jug was in the starboard wing. ;)
• used VideoMach (http://www.gromada.com/) demo to cut footage from the start and end and change to grayscale.
  

That's it.  

Problem with this approach is you encode the film twice, so the quality suffers, and the file is larger than it needs to be.  I really wish the film viewer program could save to AVI using "start select" and "end select" locations.  Right now it only saves the whole dang film.  If you could save to AVI only little clips from the AHF, you could save them as raw uncompressed AVI, do your editing as needed in separate a video editor program, and then compress to divx (or whatever format) as a last step.  That would rock.

Also, some smoothing code for the film viewer would be nice too. :)

Title: arado 234 meets its fate
Post by: mason22 on March 19, 2002, 11:53:38 AM

sancho,

in the viewer, open the film you want to edit

hit start select when you want your futurr AVI film to start.

hit end select when you want the film cut.

hit copy select....save the film as a new name.

open this new film

then create the AVI from that film....walla, you have the edited AH film.

Title: arado 234 meets its fate
Post by: Seeker on March 19, 2002, 12:07:52 PM

That doesn't work for me, Mason. At least, it works, but the enemy plaes dissapear.

Title: arado 234 meets its fate
Post by: Weave on March 19, 2002, 06:07:38 PM

Hey Sancho, I can view your divix film, but I can't get any of the films I convert to avis to open. I've tried all kinds of different codexs but nothing works. Using Win XP pro as Op sys. Any suggestions?

Title: arado 234 meets its fate
Post by: Sancho on March 19, 2002, 07:52:18 PM

mason, that just doesn't work.  either the clipped film doesn't play at all (90% of the time), or if it works, the enemy aircraft is invisible in the clipped film.

weave, is there any data in the avi file you make? is it a zero byte file?  if not, what error do you get when playing the film?

Title: arado 234 meets its fate
Post by: Weave on March 19, 2002, 08:16:23 PM

Its the strangest thing Sancho, since I played your film, it works!:D

Lol, something in there just needed to be bump started. :)

Title: arado 234 meets its fate
Post by: Kweassa on March 20, 2002, 07:25:55 AM

Very nice footage Sancho :)

 A little suggestion..

 The playback rate seems to be little bit high.. after the first recording is done in 30 fps, try downing the film speed to about 20 fps and processing all frames option. Unless one needs to make an accurate real-time training film, "cool" films like gun cams can do a bit better with 'slow motion' :)