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Title: What programs?
Post by: XNachoX on September 02, 2002, 02:49:20 PM

Hey there.  I want to make a little film with an embedded MP3, and I want to be able to make the video go along with the track if you know what I mean.  Prefferably free, so any suggestions?  
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Title: What programs?
Post by: hazed- on September 03, 2002, 11:55:45 PM

Bink and smacker are the best compressors ive found and they are simple to use and also free.

WW2ol uses bink for their films.

you can find it here:

http://www.radgametools.com

(usually) seems to be down at the moment though.

they are downloadable and are called radtools

Title: Do I have to use Bink by itself?
Post by: Jebo44 on September 05, 2002, 03:47:31 AM

Do I have to use Bink by itself or can I find the bink compression utility in Adobe Premiere?

The problem I am having is that I compress the AHF video with a Windows MPEG-4 Video Codec 2 and then use Premiere 6.0 to edit the film into the finished product. The problem is that Premiere does not seem to respond well to this MPEG 4 video...it is almost impossible to manipulate and edit.

However, if I just use straight uncompressed video from AHF then I can manipulate the video alot better in Premiere.

No matter what I do the lowest I have been able to get the file size is 50Meg's and that is just too dang much.

Any advice here?

Title: What programs?
Post by: Innominate on September 05, 2002, 05:27:04 AM

premier should be able to re-compress the uncompressed video however you like.

Title: What programs?
Post by: hazed- on September 13, 2002, 09:56:54 PM

i edit in an uncompressed film format first then i compress it with bink.

heres one of my films.........

http://combatarena.users.btopenworld.com/images/B17s.bik

heres another..........

http://combatarena.users.btopenworld.com/images/JABO.bik

one is 9.5mb the other 8.5mb, both have music and are extremely long for the file size.You can make shorter films with higher definition but i think the level i used is perfectly adiquate.I have a much clearer version at 20mb but in order to reduce the size i compressed it several times more.

with binkyou can compress then compress again and again.Each time it gets a little grainier but it also gets smaller in size.

it also allows you to add music and compresses that too!.
great for a free programme!
simple to use and simple to get to grips with.I used the online manual only a few times, the rest was intuitive enough to just mess around with and learn.

Title: What programs?
Post by: hazed- on September 13, 2002, 10:06:24 PM

btw you will need the bink player to veiw bink films but its commonly used by many people including the people who make the films for world war 2 online.

you can get bink easy, heres link to 1.2mb download.....


http://www.radgametools.com/down/bink/radtools.exe


well worth having

Title: What programs?
Post by: Drunky on September 28, 2002, 11:42:40 AM

Great film Hazed...really enjoyed seeing that p51 get hit from inside his cockpit...I got confused at first because I noticed the instrument panel was different and took a sec after I saw the rounds passing by :D

Missed ya in Friday's TOD...3/JG2 has invite waiting for you whenever you want to fly with us