====== Experiments with video ======
Hi Everyone,
I've started playing around with AVI recording in //Sapphire//. You can see some of my early handiwork in [[http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/downloads/examples/output6_transcode.avi|this panorama AVI]] [1.4MB], which is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rqeZKWgh9g|also on YouTube]] (see below), albeit with poorer quality.
If you'd like to try this yourself, there is a [[bundywiki>tutorials:l3dt:panorama|tutorial on the subject over here]]. Please note that the AVI capture process requires L3DT release 2.7, which may or may not be released by the time you read this [1].
Please note that I still have quite a bit of work to do to make the AVI capture feature 'nice', such as adding a user interface (it's currently controlled through scripts) and adding support for compression [2]. I intend to include a nice AVI capture interface in L3DT release 2.8.
Cheerio,
Aaron.
**Bootnotes:**
- L3DT release 2.7 //Standard Edition// is now available. //Professional// and //Pro for Torque// are coming soon.
- The above AVI was compressed off-line using [[wp>MEncoder|MEncoder]] in Linux, which crunched the file down from the raw AVI size of ~230MB to ~1.4MB.
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** Update: **
I've added support for writing compressed AVIs using the Microsoft 'Video for Windows' API, and [[bundywiki>tutorials:l3dt:panorama|updated the tutorial accordingly]].
--- //[[user>Aaron]] 2009/02/21 19:17//
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** Update 2: **
//Great success!//
I've hooked the AVI recorder up to the //Sapphire// user interface to give you a nice and handy 'record' toolbar button for recording AVIs. This means you'll now be able to record 'freeform' videos, rather than pre-scripted movements as with the panorama example given above. Here's an example of a video captured whilst I walked around on the terrain:
... and here's an example of using the [[bundywiki>plugins:sapphire:userguide_hf_edit:bulldozer|bulldozer]] brush in //Sapphire//:
This is all coming soon in L3DT v2.7 //Professional// and //Pro for Torque//.
--- //[[user>Aaron]] 2009/02/21 22:22//