Official LFS Video Thread

[pdanev]

Downloading now. Btw, you might wann use rapidshare e.g. for future videos, megaupload is quite slow. Getting 10k, which is ok for a few mb video, but well... just a suggestion

[pdanev]

Whoa, kick ass!!!!

I'm not a big fan of such type of music, but I must admit it really suited well the carnage. Very good stuff!!!! Keep em coming!

Constructiv criticism:
Pess shift+F to get rid of names, time, map etc, so that you have a clean screen.
You might want to *cough* buy the full version of fraps, to get rid of frap.com.

But in general good stuff!!! 8) Green light for making longer videos.

edit: just noticed you know shift+F, in the 2nd scene you must've forgotten that I guess.

[MXM]

Great, too bad it's so short

[FireFox]

What a crash of Espn , but for the movie

[Mischief007]

Yeah I know shift + F. Just forgot it.

Thanks guys. That song is by Cirrus called Stop and Panic. Thought it might suit it well. I just can't get the compression down far enough for the sound file yet.

That 10 second scene took about 2 hours to make since I was learning VDub by clicking and finding out what it does.

As far as the crash. Now you know who was indirectly responsible for both .

[Mischief007]

Uploading my summary/crash compilation of the feature race right now.

Edit:
First link is 30 MB with CD quality music.

EDIT: REMOVED

Let me know. Again constructive criticism is welcome and just try to avoid my shoddy camera work . Don't have a steady hand.

[FireFox]

d/l now, shall i upload it to my Filefront.com folder?

[pdanev]

^ Why don't you guys share with each other that space? Firefox you could send michief the registration info so he can upload there as well.

[pdanev]

Originally Posted by Mischief007

First link is 30 MB with CD quality music.
Let me know. Again constructive criticism is welcome and just try to avoid my shoddy camera work . Don't have a steady hand.

Very nice stuff. Man, I didn't even know that so many crashes happend.

Nothing wrong with the video as far as I can see. Very good work!
Oh, FPS seems a bit low from time to time. But other than that...all fine!

[Mischief007]

Originally Posted by pdanev

Very nice stuff. Man, I didn't even know that so many crashes happend.

Nothing wrong with the video as far as I can see. Very good work!
Oh, FPS seems a bit low from time to time. But other than that...all fine!

chickeneater wasn't having a good race. All the stuff with chickeneater happened in a span of 5 laps. Oh yeah and I know the FPS kinda sucked some time.

[MXM]

Did you lower the resolution before capturing?

And erm... your both links are the same 30mb version.

But.. do you mean it's the same picture, just 15mb of music? Didn't you compress it with mp3? Do that, 128kbit will be enough.

[Mischief007]

Originally Posted by MXM

Did you lower the resolution before capturing?

And erm... your both links are the same 30mb version.

But.. do you mean it's the same picture, just 15mb of music? Didn't you compress it with mp3? Do that, 128kbit will be enough.

Basically it was the same but the music quality was half.

I will be working more on videos now to get a better FPS and to improve the quality. I'm also going to try DV Studio and see if that gives me a little bit more editing power .

[FireFox]

I bought Adobe premiere , but when I want to add short movies its just hangs on this window:

A jpg I can add, but avi it can't load. tried all kind of things.
what could be the problem?

[MXM]

Erm... call Adobe support?

[Mischief007]

Where can I upload a 185 MB review of our Endurance race?

[FireFox]

I will PM you in a minute of settings from my filefront.com account.

[Mischief007]

Thanks FireFox. Currently uploading it to your FileFront account.

In the meantime I created a FileFront account myself and uploaded it there.

So have fun guys and let me know.
http://files.filefront.com/Endurance.../fileinfo.html

Edit:

It is uploaded FireFox. Thanks.

[MXM]

Good job finding moments That must have taken a loooot of time...

What's with non-transparent windows? Is that somekind of mod, or just setting in options? Also you could save about 15mb if you compressed audio with mp3. I'm not sure how you can do that in Virtual DUB, I used Ulead MediaStudio to put it all together.

Also, damnit! Why my captures aren't nearly as smooth?? I do them at 640x480 and framerate drops from >100 to <15fps the moment I press F12 (which tells fraps to start recording). So I have to record at half speed, which is still not good enough.

Totally offtopic: what's that Puzzle 1: Started 11/23/05 Status: 59 % Completed in your sig?

[Mischief007]

Originally Posted by MXM

Good job finding moments That must have taken a loooot of time...

What's with non-transparent windows? Is that somekind of mod, or just setting in options? Also you could save about 15mb if you compressed audio with mp3. I'm not sure how you can do that in Virtual DUB, I used Ulead MediaStudio to put it all together.

Also, damnit! Why my captures aren't nearly as smooth?? I do them at 640x480 and framerate drops from >100 to <15fps the moment I press F12 (which tells fraps to start recording). So I have to record at half speed, which is still not good enough.

Totally offtopic: what's that Puzzle 1: Started 11/23/05 Status: 59 % Completed in your sig?

Let's just say going through everyones replay took some time. Putting it together wasn't too bad. I did this on my laptop which only has a 32 MB Nvidia Geforce 420 Go. Not the greatest video card. My settings were at 1024x768 and then when I pressed record for fraps it drops to 15 frames like it should and record at half the size (512x384). You can compress MP3s with VirtualDUB but the thing is the audio slows down because of recording it at 15 FPS. I might give Ulead MediaStudio a try as well. Trying to find a more powerful program.

Non-transparent windows?? Could have been because of the laptop. When I first started LFS it gave me a shadow error. Could be the crappy video card in this laptop.

[OFF-TOPIC]It is a 2000 piece puzzle I'm putting together. I'm almost done just working on the last part of it which is also the hardest part .[/OFF-TOPIC]

[MXM]

Originally Posted by Mischief007

My settings were at 1024x768 and then when I pressed record for fraps it drops to 15 frames like it should and record at half the size (512x384). You can compress MP3s with VirtualDUB but the thing is the audio slows down because of recording it at 15 FPS.

Erm.. no? It should drop to exactly what you set in fraps, which in my case was 25fps. I also didn't record at half size, because apparently it's slower than smaller window + full size capture. About the audio, you didn't include original audio, so there's nothing to slow down (or actualy speed up, as you are speeding up the video in vdub?)... You just need to mix the already speeded up video with mp3 file, and I couldn't figure out how to do that in Virtual Dub. It only takes WAV's for me.

I might give Ulead MediaStudio a try as well. Trying to find a more powerful program.

I tried Premier, but that's just so overcomplicated for me. MediaStudio is supposedly the next best thing, and everything is just drag&drop and point&click. Really easy. Drop the video, delete the original audio, put speed 200%, try to sync moments to sound track, crop the overlapping parts (leaving a bit for crossfading) and that's it. Ready to compress.