Re: Half-Life Movie
Posted by Vash on
Tue Nov 18th 2003 at 12:54am
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2003-11-18 12:54am
Vash
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No, not a real one :biggrin:
I am making a special, Half-Life demo movie, but this wont be a .dem, I want to conver to .avi.
If anyone knows any links, please send them my way. I cannot tell you the project unless your on the team. It'll be a small, funny movie, and if you care to help, you know where to find me..But just incase you dont, PM me.
Re: Half-Life Movie
Posted by R@lph VViggum on
Tue Nov 18th 2003 at 2:22am
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I've made two movies, both for TFC. Ones a conc movie and the other is from some of my matches. If you need help, ask me.
Re: Half-Life Movie
Posted by FIDDLER on
Tue Nov 18th 2003 at 3:32pm
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The best tool I have found is Fraps. It's only 20 bucks (unless you find a pirate copy). It doesn't extract any .bmp's but rather makes an avi straight from the get go WITH SOUND (if you want sound). You can configure it to go at a push of a button.
Now once the .avi is made you will want to use another program like Adobe Premier to convert the .avi that Fraps makes into a more compressed .avi since Fraps makes it's .avi uncompressed (huge filesize).
The file size will be huge so make sure you have a nice fatty hard drive.
I have yet to make a movie using Fraps (still gathering material). It sure would have saved me hours and hours of work that came with converting over 150,000 .bmp's into .jpg's, converting the image sizes from 1024x768 to 640x480, importing all those .jpg's into .avi software, adding music cause no sounds from the game were present, and hours and hours of compile times.
I have made 12 movies of ingame footage from Opposing Force. Fraps would have saved me days of work.
$20.00 well spent.
