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| Mike Turland 2006-02-26, 7:45 pm |
| Hi,
A retired, ex. RAF friend who has Microsoft flight simulator installed on
his computer, has gone on a 'round the world' trip starting and ending at
London's Heathrow putting the stills of various worldly locations onto a DVD
disk. His added commentary and background music has given the flight more
appeal. However, he now intends a re-run, this time making his journey into
a movie. His problem is how to do it. Any help and advice would be most
appreciated.
Thank you, in advance.
Mike Turland
To reply to my email address, please clear away the snow!
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| Mad Mike 2006-02-26, 7:45 pm |
| Does he want to record the ENTIRE TRIP or selected portions of it? Hint:
recording the entire trip will require TERABYTES of storage 
Mad Mike
"Mike Turland" <michael.turland@virginsnow.net> wrote in message
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quote:
> Hi,
>
> A retired, ex. RAF friend who has Microsoft flight simulator installed on
> his computer, has gone on a 'round the world' trip starting and ending at
> London's Heathrow putting the stills of various worldly locations onto a
> DVD disk. His added commentary and background music has given the flight
> more appeal. However, he now intends a re-run, this time making his
> journey into a movie. His problem is how to do it. Any help and advice
> would be most appreciated.
> Thank you, in advance.
>
> Mike Turland
>
> To reply to my email address, please clear away the snow!
>
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| Mike Turland 2006-02-26, 7:45 pm |
| Not the ENTIRE TRIP Mike, only selected interesting portions. Perhaps he
should
just do a trip around the UK coastline instead.
M.T.
-----
"Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> asked:.
quote:
> Does he want to record the ENTIRE TRIP or selected portions of it? Hint:
> recording the entire trip will require TERABYTES of storage
> Mad Mike
>
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| Mad Mike 2006-02-26, 7:45 pm |
| Well actually, you could do snippets of the entire trip.
You first need a video capture application. Lots of folks have had good
luck with fraps. It is a shareware application. Othere may want to chime
in and suggest other video capture applications. There are several.
http://www.fraps.com/
Go ahead and start flying. Every once in a while you will want to pause and
take the option to Instant re-play. You can go back quite a few seconds and
replay your current flight over and over. You can, during the replay switch
views, I.E. Virtual Cockpit to Spot View and so on. During this time make
mental notes as to what you want to record and from what views.
Fire up Fraps, reduce the FS window to something smaller than a full screen
(full sized scene captures are a major drag on your system), get into FS
again, Instant re-play the portions of your flight you want and have Fraps
in its capture mode.
Basically you then will want to save those video captures in some folder and
build up a bunch of video clips.
From there, at some point you will want to use a video editor to edit those
saved clips, cut, combine them, add music and/or comments and output the
final video to the source you want. There are a number reasonably priced
VERY powerful video editors. I'm not pushing this one but it has MANY bells
and whistles for about 100 bucks. It is Adobe Premiere Elements, a low
priced version of their professional Adobe Premiere.
http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/premiereel/main.html
Many video editors have an option to create a DVD including a nice thumbnail
menu of options that allow you to jump to scenes directly. You can create a
slick title page and such. Just like the movies you rent!
That is an overview. I'm sure you have other questions
Mad Mike
"Mike Turland" <michael.turland@virginsnow.net> wrote in message
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quote:
> Not the ENTIRE TRIP Mike, only selected interesting portions. Perhaps he
> should
> just do a trip around the UK coastline instead.
>
> M.T.
> -----
> "Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> asked:.
>
>
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| Crash Lander 2006-02-26, 11:31 pm |
| "Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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quote:
> You can the grab(mouse pointer on frame border and press and hold left
> louse key)
Is that what you call it when it doesn't work properly? Or is it just a
really small mouse?
Crash Lander
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| Mad Mike 2006-02-26, 11:31 pm |
| Well, Don, mine, squeaks when I put my finger on its tail....at least it did
after my fifth brew...heh heh
Now the "louse" key as I termed it is just plain, well...Mad Mike wrong!
....woo woo,woo! I think should sent these to you for a proof read prior to
my emailing the group. ...whew...I gotta get some sleep!
Mad Mike
"Crash Lander" <here@there.com.za> wrote in message
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quote:
> "Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> wrote in message
> news:1NqMf.799404$_o.709664@attbi_s71...
>
> Is that what you call it when it doesn't work properly? Or is it just a
> really small mouse?
> Crash Lander
>
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| Mad Mike 2006-02-26, 11:31 pm |
| Sorry Crash Lander....I referred to you as Don (like in CRaSH Don Parker).
Yup, gotta get some sleep!
Mad Mike
"Crash Lander" <here@there.com.za> wrote in message
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quote:
> "Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> wrote in message
> news:1NqMf.799404$_o.709664@attbi_s71...
>
> Is that what you call it when it doesn't work properly? Or is it just a
> really small mouse?
> Crash Lander
>
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| Crash Lander 2006-02-26, 11:31 pm |
| LOL! Off to bed Mikey!
Crash Lander
--
I'm not always right,
But I'm never wrong!
"Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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quote:
> Sorry Crash Lander....I referred to you as Don (like in CRaSH Don Parker).
> Yup, gotta get some sleep!
> Mad Mike
>
> "Crash Lander" <here@there.com.za> wrote in message
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>
>
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| Hey Mike, I see alot of Icons you don't use on a regular basis on your
desktop. what I did was creat a new folder and titled it unused desktop and
then drag all those icons into it. It will clear out alot of what you don't
rightly use at the time, and you got your panel in the clear so you can see
the instruments and such.
also if you want to snap any pics of the flights you take
http://www.gadwin.com and download the gadwin 2.8 or the latest thing they
got, it free download.
when you see a pic you want on your screen just hit print and it will go to
your pics file
--
Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rise up and smite thee.
"Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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quote:
> Click on the icon in the upper right just to the left of the "X"
>
> http://www.mbm30.org/Mike/VideoRecording01.jpg
> You can the grab(mouse pointer on frame border and press and hold left
> louse key) any outer edge of the frame and drag it in or out/up or down
> and re-size the frame to any size and aspect ratio. I usually grab a
> corner and push or pull. I make mine about 1/2 the dimension of a full
> screen. That is probably good for Fraps too. Take a look
>
> http://www.mbm30.org/Mike/VideoRecording02.jpg
>
> Mad Mike
>
>
> "MikeW" <MikeW@spammenot.con> wrote in message
> news:dttauq$acd$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>
>
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| Hey Mike, I see alot of Icons you don't use on a regular basis on your
desktop. what I did was creat a new folder and titled it unused desktop and
then drag all those icons into it. It will clear out alot of what you don't
rightly use at the time, and you got your panel in the clear so you can see
the instruments and such.
also if you want to snap any pics of the flights you take
http://www.gadwin.com and download the gadwin 2.8 or the latest thing they
got, it free download.
when you see a pic you want on your screen just hit print and it will go to
your pics file
--
Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rise up and smite thee.
"Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> wrote in message
news:1NqMf.799404$_o.709664@attbi_s71...
quote:
> Click on the icon in the upper right just to the left of the "X"
>
> http://www.mbm30.org/Mike/VideoRecording01.jpg
> You can the grab(mouse pointer on frame border and press and hold left
> louse key) any outer edge of the frame and drag it in or out/up or down
> and re-size the frame to any size and aspect ratio. I usually grab a
> corner and push or pull. I make mine about 1/2 the dimension of a full
> screen. That is probably good for Fraps too. Take a look
>
> http://www.mbm30.org/Mike/VideoRecording02.jpg
>
> Mad Mike
>
>
> "MikeW" <MikeW@spammenot.con> wrote in message
> news:dttauq$acd$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>
>
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|
| Hey Mike, I see alot of Icons you don't use on a regular basis on your
desktop. what I did was creat a new folder and titled it unused desktop and
then drag all those icons into it. It will clear out alot of what you don't
rightly use at the time, and you got your panel in the clear so you can see
the instruments and such.
also if you want to snap any pics of the flights you take
http://www.gadwin.com and download the gadwin 2.8 or the latest thing they
got, it free download.
when you see a pic you want on your screen just hit print and it will go to
your pics file
--
Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rise up and smite thee.
"Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> wrote in message
news:1NqMf.799404$_o.709664@attbi_s71...
quote:
> Click on the icon in the upper right just to the left of the "X"
>
> http://www.mbm30.org/Mike/VideoRecording01.jpg
> You can the grab(mouse pointer on frame border and press and hold left
> louse key) any outer edge of the frame and drag it in or out/up or down
> and re-size the frame to any size and aspect ratio. I usually grab a
> corner and push or pull. I make mine about 1/2 the dimension of a full
> screen. That is probably good for Fraps too. Take a look
>
> http://www.mbm30.org/Mike/VideoRecording02.jpg
>
> Mad Mike
>
>
> "MikeW" <MikeW@spammenot.con> wrote in message
> news:dttauq$acd$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>
>
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| Mad Mike 2006-02-27, 7:36 pm |
| Nighty night!
MM
"Crash Lander" <here@there.com.za> wrote in message
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quote:
> LOL! Off to bed Mikey!
> Crash Lander
>
> --
> I'm not always right,
> But I'm never wrong!
> "Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> wrote in message
> news:UmtMf.791770$x96.712964@attbi_s72...
>
>
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|
| capt wrote:
quote:
> Hey Mike, I see alot of Icons you don't use on a regular basis on your
> desktop. what I did was creat a new folder and titled it unused
> desktop and then drag all those icons into it. It will clear out alot
> of what you don't rightly use at the time, and you got your panel in
> the clear so you can see the instruments and such.
Or, alternatively, you could drag them ALL into your task bar and then
pop them up when required. A neat trick I learnt some time ago and
again one I will never forget.
--
MikeW
*The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on
fire*
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| Ibby \(The Artist Formerly Known as Chris\) 2006-02-28, 7:33 pm |
| Nice cluttered desktop Mike!!
Just to add to capturing I see you are using Camtasia which I believe has an
option for capturing a selectable window, I think FRAPS only captures the
full screen. I have tried capturing with it and having FS reduced in size
but the resulting video has a huge black margin around where the desktop
shows. I tried a demo of camtasia and I got lower fps whilst recording
--
Ibby (The artist formerly known as Chris)
"Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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quote:
> Click on the icon in the upper right just to the left of the "X"
>
> http://www.mbm30.org/Mike/VideoRecording01.jpg
> You can the grab(mouse pointer on frame border and press and hold left
> louse key) any outer edge of the frame and drag it in or out/up or down
> and re-size the frame to any size and aspect ratio. I usually grab a
> corner and push or pull. I make mine about 1/2 the dimension of a full
> screen. That is probably good for Fraps too. Take a look
>
> http://www.mbm30.org/Mike/VideoRecording02.jpg
>
> Mad Mike
>
>
> "MikeW" <MikeW@spammenot.con> wrote in message
> news:dttauq$acd$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>
>
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| Mad Mike 2006-02-28, 11:32 pm |
| I like the disorganization, Ibby
Yup, you can specify a precise area to capture on the screen...real handy.
MM
"Ibby (The Artist Formerly Known as Chris)" <donotemailme@nothere.com> wrote
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quote:
> Nice cluttered desktop Mike!!
> Just to add to capturing I see you are using Camtasia which I believe has
> an option for capturing a selectable window, I think FRAPS only captures
> the full screen. I have tried capturing with it and having FS reduced in
> size but the resulting video has a huge black margin around where the
> desktop shows. I tried a demo of camtasia and I got lower fps whilst
> recording
>
> --
> Ibby (The artist formerly known as Chris)
>
>
> "Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> wrote in message
> news:1NqMf.799404$_o.709664@attbi_s71...
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>
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| Ibby \(The Artist Formerly Known as Chris\) 2006-03-01, 7:54 pm |
| You wouldn't be Mad without it!
--
Ibby (The artist formerly known as Chris)
"Mad Mike" <mikepicture@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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quote:
>I like the disorganization, Ibby
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| anglekissmetoday@gmail.com 2006-03-24, 2:02 pm |
| fraps can also capture in half screen. but i got fastcappro to capture
game. i have electable FS (from 400 x 300, ..., 800 x 600 or the full
screen) in fastcap and the fps will not drop during my recording.
fastcappro especially works great in opengl games.
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| anglekissmetoday@gmail.com 2006-03-24, 2:02 pm |
| fraps also has half screen
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