Sodor Route: First Glimpse

petermakosch · Post by **petermakosch** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:34 am

Still no site

MuzTrem · Post by **MuzTrem** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:47 pm

Should bring back many happy childhood memories in front of the TV!

Are you basing this route on the TV series or the books? Because the TV version is very different.
Incidentally, a good site to visit if you like this sort of thing is http://www.pegnsean.net/~railwayseries/ (I've contributed to it!)

timgashead · Post by **timgashead** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 5:19 pm

Hi Jonathon,

Haven't seen pics cos your site seems to be down, but well done for trying to crack this route!

Keep up the good work.

Tim

UKTRAINSIM · Post by **UKTRAINSIM** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:30 pm

Its up again. You can see the pics (well I can)

JonathonAG · Post by **JonathonAG** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:56 pm

Daz, have you had any luck in finding any of the custom models you made for sodor. If not, at least you tried.

As i aint that good at modelling, can someone try making Knapford station and Tidmouth Sheds?

Oh, and i have been getting to grips with fraps and windows movie maker. Although not 100% complete, not the best of quality but has new voices ( once i get round to recprding ), i have done a msts version of the classic episode of Troublesome Trucks

I have showed a preview example to some people, and they say it's cool. So here's hoping

But, does anyone know of an altenative of windows movie maker, but has the same features, as windows movie maker reduces the quality quite a bit

SCOTTLOWES · Post by **SCOTTLOWES** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:57 pm

I have showed a preview example to some people, and they say
it's cool.

That's me

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:10 pm

I have a copy of some of Daz's sodor models ( Knapford Station, Dryaw station and henry's tunnel ), but its best to ask Daz first!

David

JonathonAG · Post by **JonathonAG** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:46 pm

Oh yer, and i just updated the site with 2 new pics, but i aint saying what they are until you look at them

jdjonny · Post by **jdjonny** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:49 pm

JonathonAG wrote:as windows movie maker reduces the quality quite a bit

Set the quality to what you want.

When you export the movie file, click the "fit to file size..." option, and type in however big you want the movie to be... obviously bigger file = better quality, and vice versa.

Or for great quality, click the "best suit for playback on.." then choose "my computer".

That's assuming you have the latest WMM, available from the Microsoft site.. although I have a feeling that the old one worked the same way.

JDJonny

JonathonAG · Post by **JonathonAG** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:27 pm

jdjonny wrote:
JonathonAG wrote:as windows movie maker reduces the quality quite a bit
Set the quality to what you want.

When you export the movie file, click the "fit to file size..." option, and type in however big you want the movie to be... obviously bigger file = better quality, and vice versa.

Or for great quality, click the "best suit for playback on.." then choose "my computer".

That's assuming you have the latest WMM, available from the Microsoft site.. although I have a feeling that the old one worked the same way.

JDJonny

Erm, how do i do that with Windows ME?

jdjonny · Post by **jdjonny** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:35 pm

File -> Save movie file

My computer -> next

(give it a name and save location)

And you're away..

JDJonny

JonathonAG · Post by **JonathonAG** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:38 pm

Well the first preview trailer of the island of sodor is waiting for permission to use the background music before public release on http://www.freewebs.com/mstssodor . It is about 2 mins long, 9Mb and you will need windows media to view it.( wma. file )

I trust you won't be dissappointed

JonathonAG · Post by **JonathonAG** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:40 pm

Well the vidoe is up on the site, you can click on the link on the homepage to view it. But i am disgusted at the file size, is there any way to making the file size small without losing quality and not compressing into a folder ( and maybe converting to an mpeg. file?)

petermakosch · Post by **petermakosch** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:00 pm

I have provided a Mirror on my site for those who will get caught by Freewebs over Bandwidthing

And for those who want it getting over 5K

^ Click ^

The video is well woth the download!
the best bit IMO is right at the end - a very nice touch indeed. I cant wait for this!

The only thing with the size is that music and sound is included, that has bumped it up more.
Pete

calvert · Post by **calvert** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:11 pm

Great video!!

Love it!!