Really usefull, many thanks Les!

Fortunately, I kept WIN XP on a partition and downloaded the 'add-ons' for Windows Movie Maker. It's a pretty good piece of software for creating vids and of course, it's free!

In that case, if you're using an older version of WMM, when it comes time to export your video, see if you can find a way to adjust the bit-rate/data-rate and key-frame distance, rather than just using one of the built-in pre-sets. If you can get the key-frame distance to 300 and the bit-rate up to 20Mbps, your image won't be as degraded when it's compressed down to it's final form and will look about as good as it can when uploaded for viewing on the net. It will mean though you end up with a larger file size than you'd get using a lower data-rate and more compression, something in the order of 100MB per minute (so, about 1GB per 10 mins), but it's probably worth it to have the image still looking alright when played full-screen. It's up to you though to decide how you want to balance final file size with final image quality.

I should point out too that those figures are based on exporting your video as a H.264 MP4 file. Again, I don't know what you've got installed and what your options are, but you really want to be exporting your final video as a H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video. H.264 is currently the best of the readily available and widely used video compression options. It will give you a better looking picture for a smaller file size than any of the other free options around. So what you're looking for in WMM is an option to export your final video as an MPEG-4 (.mp4) file, using H.264 compression. To be honest, I've been using H.264 compression for so long I can't remember if I had to actually download it and install it at some point or if it was included with Windows 7 or some other software I've installed, but it's definitely worth looking into and making use of it, even if you have to export your video out of WMM as an uncompressed (and ridiculously large) file and then convert it to an MP4 file using VirtualDub or some other (free) stand-alone video conversion program.

Hope that all makes sense. Good luck with it in any case.

OT: RoF Demo
 

Tryed the RoF Demo. Not a bad WWI sim.
CLoD is better IMHO.
But still not a bad sim for a Demo.

flyer01

video I made. With some :):):):) at the being of the video.

http://vimeo.com/24891820

I don't have it yet but it is awesome. I'm getting that next. I got this because I have family connections to this event whereas I don't know of any in the first. I'd enjoy having the ability to do both. I just wanted this one first.

Good. Same card I have. The game still isn't out till July 19th though here in Canada.

Thanks for the video. Nice dogfight there. :cool:

I'm having a hard time understanding your comment (of course we all have the right to express our thoughts). Can you define better please? :)

If, by saying better, you are trying to say that you are more into WW II flight simulators than in WW I scenarios, you made a point, also think CloD is far better.

I the majority of the remaining aspects I think RoF is the finest simulation around at the moment (not counting with the modern ones, e.g. DCS stuff).

And yes, I even think it's superior to the old IL-2 with steroids (mods).

Regards.

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Best sim ever. You don't think so? Drop dead.

I am very impressed with all the talent there is on here. You guys really have patients and are very creative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6NQRFyuMQc

A short but nice beauty! Those guns sound so real! Congrats.

Engadin

JU-87 MP Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SEgQffp9qk