Baby steps in video-editing

[Globetrotter]

I am in the learning proces of video editing and just produced a first result.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvN-XdTlyII&feature=youtu.be

Video is made from scratch in Atlas park.

A very important thing I learned is: One needs much better software to record the demo than what is available for free and I would love to know what is good, or better: what is definitely no advisable to purchase.

Have fun watching,

GT

[corvus1970]

Did you use Fraps? I greatly prefer Bandicam.

[Globetrotter]

Did you use Fraps? I greatly prefer Bandicam.

I obviously did. Tried bandicam too and not sure I like it over Fraps.

[corvus1970]

I certainly preferred it over shutdown because you could record much longer clips.

But YMMV.

[Torroes.Prime]

wow. way better then my first efforts. Very well done for a first project.

Couple suggestions and tricks I've picked up.

at 0:07 when you switch to the wide shot of the Longbow ranks, there's a flicker in the models as they are rendered. This is caused by the camera move occuring before or at the same time as the "NEW" command is telling the engine to render the models in question. It's more noticable when it's being used for more then 5 models. Put in a 5 second "pre-roll" before the camera command. Meaning tell the engine to render the models about 5 seconds before you actually need them to be seen. You can either do this by waiting 5 seconds to move the camera to face the model in question, or by telling the parade group to wait 5 seconds before starting their march and just editing the video as needed.

at 1:35 the fliers just appear and then fly off. Personally I would suggest having them start completely off screen and then move onto screen for their fly over.

Over all though very well done.

[Leandro]

Screw bandicam and fraps. What you have to do is tell the game itself to dump individual frames for you.

You do this with -demofps 30 -demodump at the end of the line, so:

cityofheroes -demoplay yourdemo -demofps 30 -demodump -disable2d -visscale 4

That's the line I use. It dumps all the frames into the "screens" folder under "cohdemo". Then you can load the whole thing as an "image sequence" in your favorite video editor (Premiere and Vegas both support this).

If your video editor doesn't support loading image sequence, you can use VirtualDub.org to import the image sequence and write it to an AVI.

Then you have 100% fluid, pristine 30fps video with no watermarks.

I added your video to CohTube: http://cohtube.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/parade-of-heroes-coh.html

[Globetrotter]

O dear, now it is getting really complicated.

Let me see if I can do things the smooth way :-)

Thank you both, Torroes Prime and Leandro.

[Leandro]

O dear, now it is getting really complicated.

Let me see if I can do things the smooth way :-)

If you use VirtualDub, note you have to just open the first image (it'll automatically import the rest) and by default it sets the framerate to 10 fps. So you need to go to Video/Frame Rate and under "Source rate adjustement" select "Change frame rate to: 30 fps". Then you can save the perfectly smooth AVI.

If you use Premiere, File/Import, navigate to the first image, and check the "image sequence" box. Then you can right-click the imported sequence, select "interpret footage" and set it to 30 fps there.

I don't use Sony Vegas, but I know the option is in there somewhere.

[therain93]

I think that was a really outstanding video, regardless if it was the first and babysteps ( ' :
 
GREAT JOB! ( ' :

[Globetrotter]

Thank you very much:-)

Globetrotter