Movie Maker/POTW comments cont.

[TronFAQ]

I've got a load of videos of Avi eatin it, whats the recommended SW for converting to something that is much more compact than the .avi's that fraps puts out?

How about Windows Movie Maker? :shock:

I'm serious. It's free, and you already have it as part of Windows. It gives you a lot of flexibility by being able to pick different sizes and bitrates. (At least, it did in XP. In Vista, Microsoft decided to take away a lot of options to make it "simpler". PDT_Armataz_01_27) And everybody with a PC can play back the .WMV files, too.

You could also try compressing them with Divx or Xvid. Xvid allows you to encode for free, but with Divx you have to pay for that feature.

[Daddyo]

How about Windows Movie Maker?

Ya I just discovered that, works pretty good too, and pretty simple to use. Good enough for me, now I'm on the hunt for footage. Look out!

[Jademz]

I suggest using trial ware, Corel's Ulead 8 is cool if you're familiar with editing, this program has effects and stuff you can do that are really cool, even if it's cookie cutter, this is better than stuff I bought(ba$tards). (if, (you may) need some help with adding clips, but after that it get's easy. But if you want to do simple video editing, use WMM. Also, expect to use alot of HD space.

To compress the video I make sure it's alteast 800x600 then use AutoGK to compress it. Audio needs to be in AC3, or compatible with AKG to compress it.

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ ... bview=tab0
create acct. for free trial.

(Edit:) http://www.autogk.me.uk/modules.php?name=Downloads
Anderson showed me this, it works pretty good. you may want to tinker with it to get exactly what you want, the settings are simple. make sure you add a project, to start.

p.s. Nice screenshots Mor, X. Avi, like the Dentist's hyperjetboat.

[data_ghost]

shame its not an english dentists boat, who could give you a proper cavity/filling!

[Avi]

There's no such thing as an English dentist.

[data_ghost]

ah yeah, forgot about that :lol:
since its his has been seperated from potw shll we kep it just for movie maker and general tron video making?[/img]

[TRON.dll]

ah yeah, forgot about that :lol:
since its his has been seperated from potw shll we kep it just for movie maker and general tron video making?[/img]

Alright, but can I post some pics first?

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/609/ ... t63ud2.bmp
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3651 ... t62ny7.bmp
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/8789 ... t61am8.bmp
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/6605 ... t64jn0.bmp

And I previously made a TRON 2.0 vid from that night, actually.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJsEdzTpMls

Check out the description, I plugged TRON-Sector, TronFAQ's site, and LDSO, w00t. :lol:

Oh, and speaking of youtube, I found out how they do security on their site:



:lol:

[data_ghost]

1st and 3rd pics are awesome!
and ROFL for the youtube security :lol:

[TRON.dll]

1st and 3rd pics are awesome!
and ROFL for the youtube security :lol:

Hehe, thanks.

Got some more pics, kinda big, though...



Daddyo is so awesome that he can divide by zero and not cause the universe to go into a swirling vortex of death, hatred, and destruction.



Met up with f1r3wa11 last night. Anyone know if that's the first time he's been on in a while?



The server we were playin on the other night almost got full. Just needed one more player...



DIrK tried to take me out in this awesome maze. I escaped and promptly hit an arena wall.



Neat pic of 3 cyclists. I told everyone (there were 4 players) to go into the box. I missed someone though.



Daddyo's disk trail was being weird in disk arena. He said it was because I was alt-tabbing so much.



Another pic of Daddyo's disk trail.

[TronFAQ]

dIrK lives!

[TRON.dll]

Whoops! I just found the other player in the last LC pic. Look in the upper-lefthand corner where the powerup is. He's sorta in the powerup and very hard to see.

[Daddyo]

Hey nice clear photo's Tron.dll.

Dirk said he'd be on Wednesday night pacific.

Those multiple light trails are caused by my really hard throwing style, and it's electromagnetic interaction with the ether. Sorta like a series of mach cones

[TRON.dll]

Hey, Daddyo, you should take all of those vids you got of Avi gettin annihilated and syncronize it to the song "Guitar Hero" (yes, there's a song, it's by Monkey Steals the Peach), because we know how much Avi loves Guitar Hero. :lol:

If you need an example of how awesome stuff can look in MovieMaker when it's properly syncronized, check out my "1984/Jump" music video on youtube. Here's a link to my account:

http://www.youtube.com/user/lightcyclechampion

It's called "Van Halen - Jump - Super Smash Brothers Brawl style", I've shown it to some freinds and family and I've gotten all positive response. No one's left any comments yet... *hint* *hint*

[Stixsmaster]

I will say that I use Sony Vegas to edit my vids then I have it render all my edit work together as 1 big vid in WMV format...and at default quality...so as to not lose or gain anything that may cause other things in footage to be diff...like for example if I try real high quality it will make footage too dark...so yea...

I also, since I use a flash player on my own website...convert the WMV file into a FLV file at high quality...and usually what happens is it gets converted from WMV to FLV in high quality and if the WMV file is like 200+ MB the FLV conversion file comes out to be less than like 50MB so yea...

I use the Flash Video Encoder that comes with Adobe Flash...

---Stixsmaster