Comments on: TheSidDog’s ‘Machinima Tips and Tricks Learned from Black Widow Flower Garden’ http://www.simprograms.com/7694/thesiddogs-machinima-tips-and-tricks-learned-from-black-widow-flower-garden/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:03:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Thomas Riordan http://www.simprograms.com/7694/thesiddogs-machinima-tips-and-tricks-learned-from-black-widow-flower-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-32434 Thomas Riordan Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:34:26 +0000 http://www.simprograms.com/?p=7694#comment-32434 From the looks of things it just ignores any changes to the codec. I've run two videos thru Gspot, one before the change and one after both still use vp60 even though the second one should have recorded using divx. Although at least knowing the codec used I can try to find a solution for why Movie Maker blacks them out. From the looks of things it just ignores any changes to the codec. I’ve run two videos thru Gspot, one before the change and one after both still use vp60 even though the second one should have recorded using divx. Although at least knowing the codec used I can try to find a solution for why Movie Maker blacks them out.

]]> By: TheSiddog http://www.simprograms.com/7694/thesiddogs-machinima-tips-and-tricks-learned-from-black-widow-flower-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-32432 TheSiddog Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:09:46 +0000 http://www.simprograms.com/?p=7694#comment-32432 @ Thomas: I'm not sure if you can change the codec. I always record uncompressed video, much to the dismay of my hard drive. I would think the codec is hardcoded into the game. Let us know if you're able to change it. @ Thomas: I’m not sure if you can change the codec. I always record uncompressed video, much to the dismay of my hard drive. I would think the codec is hardcoded into the game. Let us know if you’re able to change it.

]]> By: Thomas Riordan http://www.simprograms.com/7694/thesiddogs-machinima-tips-and-tricks-learned-from-black-widow-flower-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-32424 Thomas Riordan Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:17:45 +0000 http://www.simprograms.com/?p=7694#comment-32424 Thanks The SidDog. I assume you can change the recording codecs as well by modifying LowQuality = video:vp6 to use a different codec. For some reason Vista 64-bit doesn't play nice with Sims 3 or Sims 2 videos for me. It'll record and I can watch them but when I go to import them into Windows Movie Maker all I get is the audio and no video. Vegas 8 will import them fine but causes graphical errors that aren't present in the original video and only become worse in the final render. I didn't know you could modify the VideoCamera.ini while the game was running either. That's going to come in handy fine tuning the hacks I've been doing to the camera limits. Thanks The SidDog.

I assume you can change the recording codecs as well by modifying LowQuality = video:vp6 to use a different codec. For some reason Vista 64-bit doesn’t play nice with Sims 3 or Sims 2 videos for me. It’ll record and I can watch them but when I go to import them into Windows Movie Maker all I get is the audio and no video. Vegas 8 will import them fine but causes graphical errors that aren’t present in the original video and only become worse in the final render.

I didn’t know you could modify the VideoCamera.ini while the game was running either. That’s going to come in handy fine tuning the hacks I’ve been doing to the camera limits.

]]> By: Jonny http://www.simprograms.com/7694/thesiddogs-machinima-tips-and-tricks-learned-from-black-widow-flower-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-32423 Jonny Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:10:32 +0000 http://www.simprograms.com/?p=7694#comment-32423 Thanks for your tips TheSidDog. Can't wait for hacks to make it even easier though. I found your video funny :) Thanks for your tips TheSidDog. Can’t wait for hacks to make it even easier though. I found your video funny :)

]]> By: TheSiddog http://www.simprograms.com/7694/thesiddogs-machinima-tips-and-tricks-learned-from-black-widow-flower-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-32421 TheSiddog Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:47:39 +0000 http://www.simprograms.com/?p=7694#comment-32421 Thank you for hosting this, Jud. I hope it's useful to your readers. You can also find me on the MachinimaTV forums. I'll be able to answer any questions you have there, as will the other users. http://www.machinimatv.cyberachel.net/forum/index.php Thank you for hosting this, Jud. I hope it’s useful to your readers. You can also find me on the MachinimaTV forums. I’ll be able to answer any questions you have there, as will the other users. http://www.machinimatv.cyberachel.net/forum/index.php

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