How about a Route "Preview" Video?

petermakosch · Post by **petermakosch** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 10:03 pm

Would people be interested and download Route "Preview" Videos?
So i would drive parts of the routes then people can decide if they want to buy the route. My comp is quite good, and I have a TV card with video capturing cababilites, but i cant be bummed to set it up, unless i have a reason to.
Not sure about audio capture though, but still, that dont count!
Cheers,
Pete

mikey2001 · Post by **mikey2001** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 10:19 pm

It sounds like a good idea, but these video clips can be quite large in size and it wouldnt be easy for 56k dial-up users to preview a route.

petermakosch · Post by **petermakosch** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:47 pm

Download Manager?
That sorted me out real good, till i became a premium user.

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 6:45 am

its not a new idea. several movies are already in the pipeline.

decapod · Post by **decapod** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 9:02 am

They do get quite large, even as WMV format. Also it's not easy to do the capture and recording at the same time due to CPU usage.

I recorded some of Highworth from video out onto my camcorder, then used the TV card to capture it again - the file was several Mb and the quality not all that good. (Though it played really well on the TV)

I think you'd probably get better value out of 10 good quality screenshots.

Horgy · Post by **Horgy** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 9:56 am

http://www.fraps.com

Horgy

petermakosch · Post by **petermakosch** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:07 am

ah ha, but someone holding a video camera is not too good, or even if its on a tripod. I will see what my card can do.

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:54 am

Fraps looks good, but as I have TV Capture card and everything required to do it, i dont wanna spend more money on extra software. :/

A Video Camera would is no good at all. This is the first thing i tried, and exactly happened what i thought would. Refresh lines, due the monitor and Vidcam being at different rates.

ForburyLion · Post by **ForburyLion** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:52 am

What about releasing a set of numbered screenshots and a map with corresponding numbers showing where they were taken?

XPTE · Post by **XPTE** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:07 pm

I might do a route preview video of my route using Fraps. Say about a 5 minute clip, allthough the file is still going to be VERY large.

Stooopidperson · Post by **Stooopidperson** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:17 pm

If you use a freeware video recorder, like snag it, it isn't going to be nice since the Snag it logo would be in one corner and blocking the image.

XPTE · Post by **XPTE** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:18 pm

I've just looked at the ones I did a few months ago. A 30 second clip without sound weighs in at a staggering 133MB!! Don't think many people would download that if I uploaded it, allthough at that size it would be impossible to upload with a dial-up connection. Unless Windows Movie Maker can considerably reduce the size of the file, but I haven't worked out how to use that yet.

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 4:03 pm

Sounds like u recorded it at hi res and uncompressed. I used to work as a post production manager, and i could get 5 mins of low quality video for that space.

No use using SNAGIT, it cant handle 3d accelerated / full screen graphics. Its only designed to track things like powerpoint or windows operations. Not games. Try recording with it at 24fps...minimum needed to get smooth motion, and it crashes.

alan2 · Post by **alan2** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:06 pm

Or use msts in windowed mode ?

I've pointed my Webcam @ the monitor and video'd a bit of my route. but it's not very good to say the least.

5 Screenshots gave me a better assessment.

jdjonny · Post by **jdjonny** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:24 pm

for an example of how much movie maker can reduce file size see my vids http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/jdstudios/videos.html

I think the 47 dragging HST out of par was reduced from 8.57mb to under 1mb.

It works better on a a huge .MPEG file to cut it down to a very small (alas lower res) .WMV file

JDJonny