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Video Creation 101
Posted By: CYBRFRK <john@cybrfrk.com>Date: 3/21/02 10:49 a.m.

So -- you want to make a movie (some folks have asked)?

THINGS YOU NEED:
1. VCR (hooked to your TV Out, so you can record what you see during gameplay)
Just keep trying until you do what you want. It took me about 20 times to perfomr what I wanted without rolling the Hog while doing flips and spins off a variety of ramps.
2. Video Tapes
Because they are cheap and reusable
3. Electrical power
OK, too much detail
4. Video Capture Card (or TV Tuner to bring signal in)
  • Any ATI AiW Cards (check Pricewatch.com)
  • I use a Radeon 32Mb AiW, you can pickup for $115 (I paid $299)
5. Miscellaneous software
CAPTURE
If you need details on how to capture, contact me or read the FAQ's for each software
VDub to capture brought in through Cap Card (freeware)
(http://www.virtualdub.org/)
EDIT
Adobe Premiere (not the cheap way, but the best)
MGI Videowave III
Free stuff (www.multi-cam.net/indexalt.html), I haven't used
ENCODE
.wmv Microsoft Video Encoder (best)
.mov Sorensen Cleaner
Quicktime tools
.mpg Tsunami Encoder (free)
.avi ( divx) VDUB (above) using the www.Divx.com codec
WHAT TO DO:
1. Play the game, while recording with the VCR
2. When you area happy, turn around, and push the video into your PC by hooking a VCR up to the Video Capture Card
3. Use VDUB, with a 352x240 (ntsc) frame size, to capture to a file.
Using the Huffy codec (on the VDub site), you can keep the file relatively small
4. Bring video into your Editing tool, cut/snip/paste, add audio, add transitions
Always test, and then export the video to a full AVI format
5. Encode to your final output format from the original, lossless AVI (created above)
6. Deliver (via web by embedding into an html document)

This is all pretty high-level, and requires some experience. 

The use of VCR or Video Camcorder is pretty popular.

If you have additional questions, contact me through my website

www.CYBRFRK.com


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Replies:

Video Creation 101CYBRFRK 3/21/02 10:49 a.m.
     Re: Video Creation 101Djof@School 3/21/02 1:39 p.m.
           Re: Video Creation 101CYBRFRK 3/21/02 2:08 p.m.
                 Re: Video Creation 101oRaptoRo 3/21/02 2:36 p.m.
                       Re: Video Creation 101CYBRFRK 3/21/02 2:55 p.m.
                             Re: Video Creation 101Djof@School 3/21/02 4:03 p.m.
     Re: Video Creation 101Jacke 3/21/02 2:05 p.m.
           Re: Video Creation 101CYBRFRK 3/21/02 2:15 p.m.
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           Re: Video Creation 101 For MacAndrew Nagy 4/8/02 3:27 p.m.
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