Creating movies

Creating movies - question for CrewNYC

Well, I know what stuff we've used in the past up here (VP's movies, God-Eat-God Productions, etc).

Any capture card will do, really - being able to capture at 640x480 would be nice for higher quality of course. A great editing tool is AVI-Edit, I think you can get this at download.com. The movies themselves are put together with Adobe Premiere (v.5.0). Premiere rules - it has effects, frames transitions, etc. Fairly easy to use, requires some practice, but not ultracomplicated. If you want to add pictures or alter frames in any way, I would recommend using AVI-Edit to pull out the frame you want and alterations or additions to be done with something like Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.
Now, lastly you need mpg encoding - XingMPEG is what we've used in the past.

Now, recently speaking with GodEater - he really wants to know how CrewNYC encoded the 'asf' format as that compresses huge. Andy, Adam how'd you boys do that? What did you use?

Hope this helps - Myke, did you get my email?

cheers,

<font color=white> Llanfair the prized <font color=green>cabbage</font color=green></font color=white>

 

Re: Creating movies - question for CrewNYC

All you have to do is download the Netshow encoder to create ASF files. You can get it from Microsofts website. I chose to encode clips in Custom mode, choose your file, I had a 48MB AVI file and then encode it anywhere from 400,000-800,000 kbps rate with Voxwear Meta Sound 8kbps Audio and Microsoft Mpeg-4 Video Codec V2 320x240 video size and 24fps, also increase the sharpness to 100%. You can chage settings at anytime after you input your choices from the Wizard. Sounds kind of complicated but when you get the encoder it's no harder than Xing.

CrewNYC



<font color=red>ORA! ORA! ORA!</font color=red>

<font color=white>adam</font color=white><font color=red>YUKI</font color=red>

 

Creating movies - two new ones!

Yup - that's exactly it. My DC is plugged directly into my computer and the display is not full screen, which is fine. So, then I try out a few things to warm up and when I fell that I've got the combo/whatever down to a science I click capture and combo away. This results in an AVI usually about 30M since it's raw capture. Then I edit the end bits off and compress - voila! Very simple, really. Although, sometimes certain combos can take forever to do if they require specific conditions.

The first time we ever did this was for Tekken 3. I was managing a small video game store as a summer job and we were hosting a Tekken 3 tournament. Godeater, Kbcat and myself captured loads of combos, whipped them together in Premiere with funky transitions and wrapped up the whole thing to Prodigy's Firestarter. It ruled. I looped the 8 min combo reel in the store above our sign-up table - people were amazed, they were like "Whoa! did Namco send you guys that?" ..."can I buy that?"...very cool.


Oh, btw, I was messing around with capturing last night and came up with these two clips - this only took about 25 mins to do both - so you can see it does not take that much time!

http://www3.sympatico.ca/llanfair/movies/Kage1.mpv
http://www3.sympatico.ca/llanfair/movies/akira1.mpv

cheers,

<font color=white> Llanfair the prized <font color=green>cabbage</font color=green></font color=white>

 

Re: Creating movies - two new ones!

Hey Llanfair, I have a question. When you use your computer to capture the DC, does it display 60 fps while recording? Whenever I record something, while capturing, the output is reduced to 30 fps, which is kinda annoying since it throws my timing off a bit.

ice-9 | Sennin

 

Re: Creating movies - two new ones!

Unfortunately the Tekken movies has been lost. Although, I do still have all of the combo AVIs on a CDR somewhere... It could be remade... Still the nicest Tekken movies are a www.tekken.net


cheers,

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Re: Creating movies - two new ones!

er...hmm...no, I think I record at 30 fps as well. 60 would be nice. Whoa, this throws off your timing? Interesting. Perhaps you're just very finely tuned...hehe I've never noticed any difference myself, I just hit capture and play like normal.

cheers,

<font color=white> Llanfair the prized <font color=green>cabbage</font color=green></font color=white>

 

Re: Creating movies - two new ones!

I'm just really bad at adjusting my fingers/reflexes...especially when it comes to control. That's why I struggle so much on sticks that I am unfamiliar with...Also, I think it's a mental thing as well. When I know it's going at 30 fps...I can't help but feel that I'm nauseatingly out of control...

ice-9 | Sennin