exporting video from rFactor

[baristabrian]

Anyone know a way to export a decent looking video WITH SOUND out of rFactor. I did one today and the frame rate was very smooth but the pic quality was poor and it had no sound.

I have also try with FRAPS didnt do much better. Did have sound but it appeard to be out of sync with the video.

Hardware specs are in my sig.

Thanks

[Joe Owens]

Anyone know a way to export a decent looking video WITH SOUND out of rFactor. I did one today and the frame rate was very smooth but the pic quality was poor and it had no sound.

I have also try with FRAPS didnt do much better. Did have sound but it appeard to be out of sync with the video.

Hardware specs are in my sig.

Thanks

The way I do it,I do not use FRAPS or the rfactor way.
I find that a good screen capture tool is better,run the replay in a window say 800x600 or less then put a capture rectangle around the part of the window that you want to capture.
While it`s capturing you can just use the normal zoom,camera angles etc to change cars and views.
But you will want to capture short footage runs,then all of those clips are put together again with transistions etc in maybe the MS Movie maker prog,I use another prog but the MS one is ok.
The to finish of you might want to run it through something like VirtualDub and set the audio interleaving to plus or minus untill it is in sync.
Then save it out using a good video compression codex as an avi or wmv etc.
I stopped doing vids because it took me hours of planning and more hours waiting for it to process,then it sometimes still needed more work.
GL Brian,a interesting job but not easy imho.
Joe.

[Mike Tribble]

Brian bounce this off of Troy Dalton.... CMSTV was his baby.

[baristabrian]

Brian bounce this off of Troy Dalton.... CMSTV was his baby.

Ok, you got me curious. What is CMSTV?

[Mike Tribble]

Troy did a series of videos called CMSTV

look here: CMS TV Video Recap of Daytona 2.4 Hours!

[Troy Dalton]

FRAPS!

It's the only way to go. You'll get great video/audio quality captures. Make sure you capture at the highest resolution available, because you're going to be compressing it later for the internet.

You'll also need a good editing program. Windows Movie Maker doesn't cut it. It crashes relentlessly. Cyberlink Power Director is easy to use, but is very unstable and ultimately frustrating to deal will. Adobe Premiere is great. Very stable and it has more bells and whistles than you can shake a stick at.

Soundforge Audacity is great for recording voice overs and best of all it's free!

So, in summary.

1) Fraps (Video Capture)
2) Adobe Premiere (Video Editing)
3) Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop (Graphic Overlays)
4) SoundForge Audacity (Audio Recording)
5) Forget about having a life...

Putting together videos is not a difficult process, however, it is incredibly time consuming. You'll need to capture any where from 30-40 video segments. I usually ended up with over a 1GB of raw video for each video. That means you'll likely spend 3-4 hours just capturing all the video (Depending upon the length of the race).

Once you have all you video captured, you should have an idea of the race story line and then you can start writing your script and trust me, it's harder than you think. After you have a rough draft, with all the video transitions, overlay graphics, etc...you can record the voice over's in very short segments (One sentence or paragraph at a time) and then place them in the video time line. This can also be very time consuming, especially if you're recording a lot of dialog. Many times you'll end up re-writing and re-recording dialog to either fit into a particular time constraint or video segment.

After the first draft is complete, now you'll need to review the video. If you get it right the first time, great! However, that doesn't happen often, so expect to review the entire video several times. You can blow a couple hours just doing that alone.

Then there's post production. Final clean up, export, conversion, posting etc...yet another time consuming process.

In the end, you can easily invest 10-12 hours putting together a ten minute video. I think I put together one in four hours once, but it was a relatively short, boring race, and I already had most of the ancillary products (Overlays, etc...) created.

Don't get me wrong. I LOVED putting together the video's and it truly was a labor of love, but it just became waaaaay too much effort. If you've got the time and the passion for it, I guarantee you'll have a lot of fun doing it!

Good Luck!

v/r
Troy