War Zone 2 (Trailer)

Originally Posted by John_Clark

Ok, sorry guys but due to technical difficulties of extreme lag/jumpiness I will not be able to create a video of War Zone currently... Sorry Chris.

Chris:

I used BSR to make a video of your WarZone world while it was running. I have a wmv file and an avi file. The wmv file is about 6 mBytes and the avi file is about 68 mBytes.

It looks and sounds pretty good if it is played in a small size, but it does have a big BSR logo on the bottom-right corner. There is some mouse fiddling at the beginning where I was trying to synchronize the start of the movie with the start of the action. I may try to use the BSR editor to clean up the beginning if the learning curve for the editor isn't too steep. This is not something that I have done before.

I will be happy to send either or both files to you if you can tell me how to do so.

Dick Baldwin
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Originally Posted by DickBaldwin

Chris:

I used BSR to make a video of your WarZone world while it was running. I have a wmv file and an avi file. The wmv file is about 6 mBytes and the avi file is about 68 mBytes.

It looks and sounds pretty good if it is played in a small size, but it does have a big BSR logo on the bottom-right corner. There is some mouse fiddling at the beginning where I was trying to synchronize the start of the movie with the start of the action. I may try to use the BSR editor to clean up the beginning if the learning curve for the editor isn't too steep. This is not something that I have done before.

I will be happy to send either or both files to you if you can tell me how to do so.

Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
Free programming tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/toc.htm

OK, I figured out how to use the BSR editor to trim the beginning so that it starts out right. Except for the BSR logo, it looks and sounds really good when played in small size. Let me know if you would like for me to send it to you and how I should send it if you want it.

Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
Free programming tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/toc.htm

[Chris101b]

Hey, thank you so much. I am glad that you took time to record it, you can send it via email to chrismags@aol.com or if anyone has any questions, feel free to send me an email. I will be happy to answer it.

Originally Posted by Chris101b

Hey, thank you so much. I am glad that you took time to record it, you can send it via email to chrismags@aol.com or if anyone has any questions, feel free to send me an email. I will be happy to answer it.

Your work deserves to be seen by lots of people, so it was worth the effort to record it.

I zipped it and sent it via email. I don't know if it will survive the email gremlins due to its large size. When I edited it to clean up the front end, the size of the wmv version expanded to 9.3 mBytes. If you don't get it, let me know and we will find another way to send it to you.

Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
Free programming tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/toc.htm

[Chris101b]

I got it and it works perfectly.... Thank you!

Originally Posted by Chris101b

I got it and it works perfectly.... Thank you!

Every time I watch it, I marvel at all of the little details that you included, such as the thing that the ranger does to go over the top when he finishes climbing the robot's arm.

Once again, outstanding work. Be sure to post it on your YouTube account so that the world can appreciate it.

Dick Baldwin
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Thanks for doing it for me. I'm always doing this from the school lab computers for A+ because I'm helping out my tech teacher so the computers don't really have that good of hardware. So it was really laggy when I recorded with CamStudio. Oh yea, quick question Chris. Are you thinking of doing an entire series for War Zone? Or was it more of a spure of the moment great idea thing?

Originally Posted by John_Clark

Thanks for doing it for me. I'm always doing this from the school lab computers for A+ because I'm helping out my tech teacher so the computers don't really have that good of hardware. So it was really laggy when I recorded with CamStudio. Oh yea, quick question Chris. Are you thinking of doing an entire series for War Zone? Or was it more of a spure of the moment great idea thing?

I was just sitting here thinking about downloading and trying CamStudio when your message popped up on my Alice Forums screen. I was looking for a FAQ but couldn't find one on the CamStudio website, so maybe you can answer a couple of questions:

1. Does CamStudio seem to work well for small Alice worlds (Chris101b's War Zone world is huge so that probably isn't a fair test for free screen capture software)?
2. It appears from the CamStudio web page that it is only able to produce AVI files and Flash SWF files. I know nothing about SWF files, but the CamStudio web page says there are bugs in the SWF files created by CamStudio.

My experience is that AVI files are very large and need to be compressed into a smaller format. Do you compress them, and if so what program do you use to do the compression?

Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
Free programming tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/toc.htm

If you have a fairly good computer there is no lag for CamStudio also on the site they have a very good compression thing that really reduces the size of the AVI with out losing any of the quality, so I think it is a very good program to use and you can also change the size of the screen.

Originally Posted by John_Clark

If you have a fairly good computer there is no lag for CamStudio also on the site they have a very good compression thing that really reduces the size of the AVI with out losing any of the quality, so I think it is a very good program to use and you can also change the size of the screen.

Thanks, I believe I will give it a try. Also, I would be interested in comments by others who have used it.

Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
Free programming tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/toc.htm