BF2S Forums Need help with a movie, anyone experienced please read.

mort4u wrote:

what OS are you using? cause theres the free movie maker for windowsXP. apart from that im not sure about cheap movie editing software since i mostly know the professional stuff and thats far away from cheap

if you need help with the BF2 battlerecorder and tips how to get a clean picture PM me here and i will answer your questions.

looking forward to your movie.

Hey mort, yea I'm using WindowsXP, I just can't seem to find the editor. And with the Battlerecorder, that's a question I was asking how to make it clean without names.

ok i cant post in that topic on your forum

anyway i just gonna answer here.
first go here http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.ph … mp;start=0 and especially make yourself familiar with the recording of camera movements and download the demo.cmd file from the link there. 
ok explanation for the camera movements precedure. you need that to get rid of the name tags in the battle recorder. so far i couldnt find another way and even EA said in an email that its not possible
then i suggest not to use the ingame renderer like in the above link described but use fraps while replaying those movies with the pre-recorded camera.
also you wanna go to 300% speed at the beginning through the replay rose (Q) to get rid of the mouse pointer, i discoverd that by accident cause it isnt documented either. of course you can switch to normal mode emmideatly again.

i dunno if theres a way to make vehicles wracks stay longer since i dont have any experience with the server configs. but there may be a way in SP recording. if you stop the demo recording with a wrack in picture it will stay but be animated (smoking). but then you cant have actors there

mort4u wrote:

ok explanation for the camera movements precedure. you need that to get rid of the name tags in the battle recorder.

like i said. record a camera movement and then in the resulting replay, all instructions how to achieve that are on the linked page, you wont see any name tags. you only have to remove the console by typing "renderer.drawhud 0" (without the "" of course ) into the console to get rid of death messages etc.

mort, I can't seem to find the command to get rid of the player names, not the console that lists kills, but the name above each players head in BattleRecorder.

Bravery wrote:

I see, what video program do you use? I just "got" Adobe Premier Pro 7.0 and I'm using it to try and do this. Do you use it? Any tips would be appreciated. ;)

EXCELLENT. I hate people who think that Windows Movie Maker is so grand, because it's like using MSPaint to remove redeye.

Use a combination of Adobe Premiere Pro and VirtualDub (VirtualDub is downloadable) and that's all you need.

When you have your raw clips, first use VirtualDub to resize, crop, trim, and remove sound if desired (takes up lots of extra space) but do not compress them. I'll say why later. Everything is pretty much in the video/audio menus, and under Filters is where you add all your fancy shmancy stuff, not hard to know what's what.

Premiere (yes there's an E) Pro is a simple drag and drop procedure. Right click and use unlink audio/video if you want to separate the tracks so you can overlay some different audio tracks, etc. You can also trim the movies here but I recommend going back to VirtualDub as the cut is neater and more accurate. Simply put one movie after the other, use effects if desired (select video portion, choose an effect and fill in details), and organize your final movie here. After you export it, reopen it with VirtualDub and compress it with a DivX 4.0 ;) or DivX 6.0 codec. (DivX 4.0 ;) is a different codec from the normal DivX's).

By codec-ing it now you don't lose quality that you would've lost from compressing it twice, but you use up a lot more space with the previous raw videos staynig in uncompressed RGB. Have any questions, don't hesitate to ask

http://www.followme2.com/phpfusion/html … _id=54#165 
maybe helpfull site.

note the quotations around "got".

i "got" one too.

i shall say no more.


edit; DON'T use Indeo Codecs. They may be efficient and qualitative, but 60% of the computers out there are gonna have explorer crash because they don't have it and it'll take a bit of time before they even realize that its a codec problem, and then fix it. That kind of thing is not attractive to your rep.

Last edited by Coolbeano (2005-11-10 07:37:25)