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Okay, so since everyone wants help with jumps and stuff, I decided to make a movie.

In this movie it'll be clips of the most usefull jumps I know, the funniest, and hardest. So, basicly, all the jumps I know.

Anyway, before compiling, encoding, editing whatever, how much would.. Oh, I don't know, about 1 hour of RAW .avi use of my harddrive?

And what programs or Q2 clients are the best ones for exporting .dm2 into an windows-editable movie, like .avi or .mpeg?

Also, (I guess I could find the answer to this one in some turturial, but since I'm already asking so many other questions), what format is best?

DivX ? (how many pixels? 000x000 ? version? other specs?)
XviD ?
.mpeg4 ?
.mp4?
(Windows Media Video) .wmv?

Please, share your knowledge :p
If it doesn't take to much discspace, maby I'll start rendering, exporting or whatever soon..

I haven't made a Q2 demo in years, and, well, the quality wasn't all that great.

Thanks beforehand.

- ^Proto

dunno if it helps that much, but http://www.aq2suomi.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1867 by Woce and Masa :)

xvid is in these days, i think. hope to see a jumpin movie soon ;)

when exporting it is like 10mb a second.
When encoding you want good quality at a low bit rate. I would use wmv9 cus its easiest to use and comes up with very good quality. Message me on msn for help in setting that up if u need help. (640x480)

Also use either beefquake or apprime quake. I would use apprime cus its just the simplest and cus its only for jumps would probably be the best.

raw avi takes 14,5mb /s if i remember correctly. Used to do that for me atlest.

-Arild

vmw9!, but max on everything! (i think i did that)

Sorry but i dont see any point of making a movie which contains old jumps. Only new stuff can make the movie interesting. And dont say that "it will have few new jumps", because it should be all new.

arild wrote:raw avi takes 14,5mb /s if i remember correctly. Used to do that for me atlest.

that would depend on what kind of resolution you are using... a video will take less discspace if you use a low resolution as opposed to a high one (duh!) I'm don't have a clue as to if you can choose the resolution for an avi-export from apr or beefquake yourself tho, never used the avi-export.

-NRG

aviexport exports the video at the resolution you are currently playing at, if u change it then export it will record at that resolution. It exports everything on the screen...

- depends also on framerate, colordepth and sound
- shure u can choose the resolution for avi-export in bq and apr, its the resolution u've set in before exporting
- my settings: uncomressed avi 640x480x32@25fps with uncompressed sound in q2 qualitly => 23 Mbyte / sek
- I'll advise DivX Pro as final codec, it provides imo slightly better performance (maybe just a subjective opinion, couse it simply has to, as the commercial version of it's little brother XviD), easier to use - has better interface and beautiful documentation
- after 6 Months Trial period u can change to XviD or reinstall ur whole system and use DivX Pro Trial again :-)

@new jupms only
A recammed simultan jumping performance mega show with old jumps would look nice :-)

It goes pretty much like this:

with 640x480 it takes about 1.57gb/minute
with 800x600 it takes about 2.45gb/minute
with 1024x720 it takes about 3.63gb/minute

I wouldnt recommend anything bigger than 640x480. For example 800x600@30fps needs over 650mhz p3 to play smoothly without dropping frames and i believe there is many people in aq2 scene with such low end machines. Also, going to higher fps like 40 or 50 requires more from the watchers cpu.

Thanks for all the replies, oh, and for the guy who thought it wouldn't be any fun to watch all the old jumps again, uhm.. what can I say.. maby it'll be funnier to watch me do them? I don't know, but atleast now you'll get them all at one place.

And I promisse a few new moves I found myself, which I haven't seen anyone do, or shown anyone, so it should be worth it.

Guess I'll start exporting in a few weeks then, and making demos later this weekend.



thanks again..

hey, i am wondering if much quality gets lost when you render every videopart two times. my new movie will probably becomes too long for my hdd to store, so i thought about rendering everything once to render everything in a second step together. Any comments?

when I made "evolution", to save space, I encoded one time the uncompressed clips with the best quality settings in xvid... then i puted all togheter and then the last encode....... Didn`t have that much quality loss... but if you don`t use the best quality the first encode, you can tell the quality loss...