Steam scenes

OdneyManor · Post by **OdneyManor** » Thu May 17, 2007 2:35 pm

Nice shots of a fine Bristol-built loco on a great route, WesternInvader

Some shots from Minehead again!

prairie4566 · Post by **prairie4566** » Sat May 19, 2007 10:04 am

Back on the video camera again

Hi Joe

I'm trying to do videos using the freeware Cam Studio program. How do you make it stop flickering during playback?

Stephen

OdneyManor · Post by **OdneyManor** » Sat May 19, 2007 11:45 am

prairie4566 wrote:
Back on the video camera again
Hi Joe

I'm trying to do videos using the freeware Cam Studio program. How do you make it stop flickering during playback?

Stephen

I don't get any flickering with fraps, not since I got my new pc, used to get it on my old pc though, which had less memory on it, and frame rates plummeted. How much RAM does your pc have? You might need more.
Mines got 1GB and I get frame rates between 15 and 20 with fraps recording at 1024 x 768.

prairie4566 · Post by **prairie4566** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:13 pm

I know nothing about this sort of thing, but our system information says there's 256MB of RAM.

OdneyManor · Post by **OdneyManor** » Sat May 19, 2007 8:08 pm

256MB of RAM isn't erally enough for videos, which is probably why it's flickering, so you can either upgrade your RAM, or lower your MSTS settings and see if you still get flickering.

RobertM · Post by **RobertM** » Sun May 27, 2007 8:06 pm

9794 prepares to depart Boxfield to St Margrets with an evening goods train.

kirkheath · Post by **kirkheath** » Mon May 28, 2007 8:02 pm

Rob, that is a great screeny full of atmosphere nice angle

prairie4566 · Post by **prairie4566** » Thu May 31, 2007 10:56 am

Nice one

Maybe greyscale and / or softening can also give the right effect, like on this one of 92214.

I did both on this shot in PSP8, then used the 'sharpen more' option to help the details show up again.

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:35 am

For more control over greyscale, try splitting the channels into RGB.

Adjust the brightness and contrast using curves and sharpen if needed.
Then recombine them and greyscale.

OdneyManor · Post by **OdneyManor** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:32 am

2858 heads east out of Box tunnel.

davidaward · Post by **davidaward** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:12 pm

Connections being made at Bala Junction.........

and two trains passing at Arenig

OdneyManor · Post by **OdneyManor** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:28 pm

Nice shots David! I can't stop using those GWR carriages, I prefer them over Mk1s

kirkheath · Post by **kirkheath** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:16 pm

Joe,David great screens!! very nice looking indeed

OdneyManor · Post by **OdneyManor** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:01 am

Britannia flying through Swindon.

WesternInvader · Post by **WesternInvader** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:03 pm

Some nice shots there

Bala Hub looks like a great route.

Here are a few more Liskeard shots with a Dean Goods - not very appropriate for Cornwall (or for the crew in these conditions), but a last minute replacement for the Aberdare, which didn't work with MSTSbin.