Experimental Video Rendering - UPDATED 8.1.2011

[flightsim430]

i find the new feature of fs recorder rendering very useful. the FPS r amazing compared to using some of the more common used recorders (E.G. FRAPS). i have been testing the new feature in some of my new youtube vids and strongly beleve this could br the awnser to most the problems of frame loss and lag.
to watch my video go to this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yolqCpymxMU
to gget to my channel go to this link http://www.youtube.com/user/flightsim430?feature=mhum

[arcticspinnaker]

I was in the process of creating a couple video clips for another project when I came across FSRecorder. Specifically the new direct rendering ability piqued my curiosity so I thought I would try it out.

Simply amazing program!

Below is a short rough clip of a test I did. I'm not a video producer by any means but I wanted to see the interaction between FSRecorder and EZDok. I still need to learn some more camera management/transition methods, but I'd say the test was successful. 67 seconds of flying, 35 minutes to render. But, the results speak for themselves (keep in mind, very rough, just testing cameras).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q9JvQM-u0c

Now I need to think about what I'm actually going to do for my first real flightsim vid.

BTW, will send a donation your way next week. Simply can't believe this program is free.

Cheers,
-Dan

[lancia1163]

thanks for your reply.
I must admit that I never got the fsrecorder-spotcamera working well. Now that i tried again i got it to work.
I've used spotcamera mode "Follow (fixed heading)" with smooth positioning and smooth zoom.
a videoclip made with FSRecorder can been seen here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss3_zqC8Eps
As you see the camaramovements are not as smooth as they should be.
In your last mentioned videoclip the heli goes out of the center of the screen. How do you fix this with the fsrecorder-spotcamera or is it done by video-editing.

b.t.w. My congratulations for those most beautiful videos of FSX that can been seen on the net!

I rendered another video which can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9uV-ISdjaU and now the rendering is perfectly smooth. (edit: video can also be downloaded here : www.imagazine.be/sale1a.wmv )

And now I also understand the full capabilities of the FSRecorder-spotcamera
Apparently it's made by some genius tweaks applied on the standard "fixed View" as moving the eyepoint outside the center of the plane and increasing the sensivity of the camera to te acceleration of the airplane.
Only Matthias can tweak FSX the way he do.

I also have some more suggestions for this new videorendering-feature :
- start rendering by pressing a hotkey; saving the file with predefined settings and predefined name (eg. prefix + date- and timestamp)
- rendering AVI - files (Virtualdub is a fantastic tool but doesn't read WMV-files)
- automatically stop the rendering (and saving) when playback has stopped.

Congratulations anyway for this fantastic tool!

[uksnapper]

Hi Guys and Happy New Year to All.

Well i have been watching this topic for a while and was happy to learn it was finally available. I downloaded the FSX version and everthing seems to be ok but have a couple of Questions...

1) i have recorded a 20 second flight and plays back fine until i hit the render option.. the 20 second clip will take say a couple of mins to play back....is this normal?

2) whilst in FSrecorder mode the selections i make ie right click ...views...spot view or selecting from the drop down all the display selections i make are also recorded. At the moment my thinking is that i will delete the part i see all of that in a video editing programme.... Should i have selected something to hide the selections or is that normal?

Thanks in advance.

Tom.

[noisy]

Hi,

1) i have recorded a 20 second flight and plays back fine until i hit the render option.. the 20 second clip will take say a couple of mins to play back....is this normal?

Yes, it's normal that the simulation runs slower during rendering. How much slower depends a lot on the video rendering settings, the higher the video size, frame rate, codec complexity, the longer it will take to render it, but the resulting video is smooth and plays at normal speed.

2) whilst in FSrecorder mode the selections i make ie right click ...views...spot view or selecting from the drop down all the display selections i make are also recorded. At the moment my thinking is that i will delete the part i see all of that in a video editing programme.... Should i have selected something to hide the selections or is that normal?

Yes, that's normal, but there's a simple trick to avoid having it in the video: Pause FS (this also pauses rendering), make your menu selections, then unpause FS to continue rendering.

[uksnapper]

Ahhhhh Thankyou for clearing that and you top tips

[flightsim430]

this is a test vid about fs rendering.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbcyPnklAFs

[DavidLTG]

See what FS recorder can.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsnRraP9nCE

[theAV8R]

Hello Everyone and Matthias, i recently was testing out the the v2.151 Alpha recorder , Amazing program
yet as soon as i started using the program, I hit a brick wall of sorts,

My problem is whether not FS Recorder can render the video, it can
but the real problem is the playback on the rendered video as i recorded over 2 minutes under the rendering,
yet it outputted only 29 and change seconds, and i did manage to upload the results of the rendering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7U5uleKChg
It seems to speed through alot of the recording, trust me this is not edited in any way

Anyway Thanks for making an awesome program,

Namaste,
Via Domus - theAV8R

[noisy]

Hi,

Hello Everyone and Matthias, i recently was testing out the the v2.151 Alpha recorder , Amazing program
yet as soon as i started using the program, I hit a brick wall of sorts,

My problem is whether not FS Recorder can render the video, it can
but the real problem is the playback on the rendered video as i recorded over 2 minutes under the rendering,
yet it outputted only 29 and change seconds, and i did manage to upload the results of the rendering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7U5uleKChg
It seems to speed through alot of the recording, trust me this is not edited in any way

Anyway Thanks for making an awesome program,

Namaste,
Via Domus - theAV8R

Obviously the modification of simulation speed doesn't work on your system , what does the frame rate display show during rendering? Seems like it is the same problem as flusirainer has.

Now I have to find out why FS behaves different on some systems, which won't be easy as I can't reproduce the problem here. If you want to help me fixing that, please contact me by email, so that I can send you debug versions for testing.