Couple questions

Sam The Butcher · Post by **Sam The Butcher** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:13 am

Is there anyway to edit films? Like to make like a high lights film. Also to make a whole new unit do you have to have a Mac or is there a program for win? Thanks

mauglir · Post by **mauglir** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:47 am

Amber, the tool used to create new collection tags for Myth (2D sprite graphics), is a Mac only tool. There is no Windows equivelent that will help you create an entire new unit, sorry. Your best bet is to find a friend who has a Mac and get him to do the Amber work for you.

Phex · Post by **Phex** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:26 am

Hey Butcher,

It is absolutely not possible to cut myth recordings together, because of their nature:
Myth recordings are nothing else than all commands given by users together with their corresponding time and all the results of random calculations put together and read like a script.
So recordings can be compared to a ordinary myth levels with lots of scripting and no possibility to interact.
This is the reason why you cant jump to a specified point of a myth recording or rewind it.

The only possibility to cut myth recordings together is to convert them into avi/mpg/etc. movies and cut these movies together. You can do this by letting the myth recordings run in myth and record them with a third party program for screenshots and ingame recordings (consult google). Dont forget that the resulting mpg-movie will be *much* bigger than the original myth recording file.

Phex.

Sam The Butcher · Post by **Sam The Butcher** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:04 pm

Thanks Phex. I will have to look into it. You don't know of any programs that would do this? But you think I could find something on google?

Pistol_Pete · Post by **Pistol_Pete** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:31 pm

www.fraps.com

You can make movies that way.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 7:15 am

I tried Fraps a while ago...didn't care for it.
I messed with it for a week..recording Myth films in 1/2 speed..fast..tried it all. When watching the film....my archerwould stand still..then 2-3 seconds later he would jump 2-3 inches. Maybe he was a teleporting archer.
I by no means am saying it is a bad program...just not smooth enough for me.
Anyone ever try focusing a good webcam onto their screen?
Does that work?

Industry · Post by **Industry** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 9:57 am

Sounds like you need to increase the frame rate of the capture. I would try playing it back at 1/16th or increasing the rate of screen shots. At 1/2 speed you need to take 14 screen shots per second to get a good looking film (28 fps).

dangerella · Post by **dangerella** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:06 am

Snapz Pro 2 works very well for captures movies

Sam The Butcher · Post by **Sam The Butcher** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 10:54 am

Thanks all for the info I will try both of the programs out.

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Couple questions