Tianve Movie

[drew]

After following the thread on using CamStudio to capture movies from Oolite I thought I'd have a go.

So here's my first attempt.

The Tianve Pulsar Trip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GbL0GIZP2M

Cheers,

Drew.

[Diziet Sma]

Awesome!

I liked the well-timed camera angle changes, and the scene with Rebecca Weston was neat, too... Although... with a bank balance of 10 million credits, I'd have thought you would have fitted out the Cobby with a bit more gear..

I noticed a couple of edits in there as well... what program did you use for that?

I must remember to try landing on the Pulsar, next time I'm in that neighbourhood... should be fun, with it spinning like that!


Edit to add:
Watch it in HQ mode folks, it's much clearer!

[DaddyHoggy]

I'm going to have to join Youtube just so I can rate all these fab videos!

Cracking job Drew - the tianve oxp has changed A LOT since I downloaded it shortly after you brought it out - will have to download again and head-out that way!

[Diziet Sma]

For others wanting to give CamStudio a try...

Some suggested settings at the CamStudio Forum for capturing full-screen gaming are:

## VIDEO OPTIONS ##

Video Codec: DivX
Quality: 85%
Keyframes: Every 120 frames
Capture Frames Every: 33 milliseconds
Frame Rate: 30 frames/second
AutoAdjust: Unchecked

[CONFIGURE]

Certification Profile: 1080HD
Speed Preset: 1
Rate Control: 1-pass, 6000kbps

(everything else as default)


## AUDIO OPTIONS ##

Recording Format: 22.05 kHz, mono, 16-bit
Compressed Format: PCM
Interleave: Every 100 milliseconds
MCI Recording unchecked

* If you still have a/v desych, then check MCI (remember all other audio options will be overridden)

Dimensions of Recording (Region)

I need to experiment more with this, but

640 x 480
960 x 720
and
1280 x 960

should all give you either HD or HQ options on YouTube

But know that the larger the dimensions, the larger the final filesize.

Note that this assumes you also have DivX installed.. (worthwhile anyway) and I can also state from my own experience that 1024x768 will also give you a HD option. Rather than setting a region, you can also choose 'Fullscreen'.

Also, if you go to YouTube and search on the word 'camstudio' you will find lots of tutorials and recommendations for settings.

[radcapricorn]

Watching this and the Q-bomb video I couldn't get rid of Queen's "It's a kind of magic" song in my head. Just... beautiful!

[pagroove]

Fantastic movie. You're not only a great author but also a good movie maker

[Simon B]

For people running linux - the desktop recorder of choice is recordmydesktop

In Ubuntu (Debian etc):

sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop gtk-recordmydesktop

You run it from the audio-video menu, the gui lets you pick a window to record, click the box in the systray to stop it. In encodes to the royalty-free ogg/theora format. If you need an flv or other format - mencoder or similar will transcode for you.

Click-through the advanced options - disable the cursor for eg and you won't get that mouse-pointer in the shot ;)

I'm looking at getting a movie of the neolite edition made...

[DaddyHoggy]

Brilliant. Thanks Simon - that's just what I was hoping to hear!

[Diziet Sma]

Another possibly useful tool for video capture with Linux is Yukon. I'd just got it (and its dependant libraries) installed onto my Kubuntu box and was about to start playing with it, when a kernel upgrade went haywire, which I haven't had time to sort out yet, so I can't say how good or otherwise it is. However, it certainly isn't anywhere near the user-ready state that recordmydesktop is, so I'd suggest that only those who love tinkering under the hood ought to give it a go.

[drew]

I noticed a couple of edits in there as well... what program did you use for that?

I'm using avs4you software (came bundled with my laptop) it's actually pretty good to be honest. A bunch of nicely integrated tools and support for HD video editing.

Cheers,

Drew.