The WCProphecy Movie Project
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AD
Finder of things, Doer of stuff
maniac89 said:
Ok, here's what you need to do. Take two short clips in Movie maker, and so a simple splice (put one after the other in the timeline) and do a quick encode of your move. If the resulting movie file plays fine in media player without color distortion than you can ignore this bug. If not, you may need different editing software.
I suppose there is the posssibilty that some setting within movie maker might fix it too, but I don't personally use it so I'm not familiar with all the options. I will see if I can recreate the error on my PC though.
ChrisReid
Super Soaker Collector / Administrator
maniac89 said:
Like I was saying, this is an absolutely critical foundational skill that someone leading a Prophecy Movie Propject must have. You need to start plugging words like "movie encoding," "video codec" and "audio compression" into Google and spending a whole bunch of time learning this stuff that will be absolutely vital to doing a god job on this.
AD
Finder of things, Doer of stuff
maniac89 said:
If you click on the tools menu and choose options. and then the advanced tab you can select things like a 16:9 aspect ratio. But the last tab is called compatiability. There you can disable various directshow filters and codecs. It's possible one could be conflicting and disabling it may fix the color problem you would need to experiment a little there I guess. I havent tested any prophecy stuff but all the stuff I captured from wc4 works fine in movie maker.
One thing you do need to do is check out the tasks window. everything is layed out for you. It can pretty much walk you through what you nee to do. section 3 is "finish movie" (though I prefer english movie
) YOu need to click "save to my computer" and then it walks you through a few choices like file name, where you want to save it, and even to some degree the quality you want to save it as. Either way section four, under tasks, has a bunch of tutorial stuff you should read.
maniac89
I love Wing Commander: Prophecy
Yeah, I should have said that . . .
What I did was set the Video Properties to (the video format being) PAL, and (the aspect radio being) 4:3. It's in both the preview window and the final product. What I mean by lines is that I can see the scene, it's just that there are numerous black lines running through it. I can make a screenshot.
Hope that helps - - -
The Maniac
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P.S. AD, how to you edit your video so it sounds better? (I know, simple question)
What I did was set the Video Properties to (the video format being) PAL, and (the aspect radio being) 4:3. It's in both the preview window and the final product. What I mean by lines is that I can see the scene, it's just that there are numerous black lines running through it. I can make a screenshot.
Hope that helps - - -
The Maniac
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P.S. AD, how to you edit your video so it sounds better? (I know, simple question)
AD
Finder of things, Doer of stuff
maniac89 said:
About the video, a screenshot would be good. It sounds like somehow it's interlacing it on you, in which case I need to see a a screenshot. Does it go away if you choose NTSC?
About sound, I don't use movie maker for one. However, when you go to make your movie, it asks you about quality. Chose other and then from the menu pick high quality video. That should ensure a higher bitrate is asigned to the audio as well.
AD
Finder of things, Doer of stuff
maniac89 said:
Did you make the screenshot with the free version of fraps? It only saves as BMP unless you buy the full version. That really isn't a problem though because you can just "save as" in paint as a jpeg and it should be closer to a forum friendly size.