Movie Results

Rougly 400 people visited my blog over the weekend when I announced my movie F-16XL. The average stay on my blog was 4:01 minutes. Thise means that few people read what I write (if you read this, congratulations you are among the happy few), but most watched my movie (untill at least the end credits rolled by).

Making that movie, rekindled my interest in movie making. At first I believed that WOE would be too limited for movie-making but I have discovered some interesting hacks (or mods) that enable me to manipulate the views in the sim. I am currently writing the script for a second movie which will use more advanced camera angles. But more on that in my next post (when I will announce my findings in the community).

I posted the third installment in the Tainted Cigar series on SimHQ but you can also find it here at my story blog.

I hope you enjoy the AAR and watch out for my next post.

F-16XL

Today I posted my latest movie. Yesterday I downloaded the F-16 XL from combatace and decided to make little movie on the spot.

WOE is much harder then LOMAC and Il-2 for movie making. The views are limited and although you can declutter the screen there are still some messages that pop up on the bottom of the screen. By zooming the image, I can block these messages out, but sometimes one slips through.

I initially had some fears about the frame rate (In il-2 and Lomac, movies are taped at a quarter of normal speed, to artificially increase frame rates by speeding up the images in vegas), but everything remained around 30 to 40 frames. Furthermore I discoverd the benefits ofDivx compressing. The initial 4 minute movie took a whopping 1 Gb in AVI format. This was by far the best format (and much better then in youtube). Converting to Divx i obtain a file of 51 Mb. Still too big and clumsy for Youtube but now I can post it on Stage6, which support Divx embedding.

For those who like to read stories instead of wathing them, a new AAR "VF-41" is available at SimHQ and on this blog.

For the movie fans, below the video you will find links to the several sites I posted the movie on.




Other places you can find this movie:

Stage6

YouTube