Where do the videos save?

I've looked around and couldn't find it.

Videos (and music) are not like Textures or Animations - you don't upload them to the SL servers. Instead, you host them yourself. Then when an AV watches your video it goes directly from your server to the AV's client - it never goes through SL's computers.

If you already have a website you can store the Quicktime-compatible video files there. If not then look for a website/service that allows you to link directly to an uploaded video. Blip.tv works well.

Thank you very much!
But what about when you record your own video?

They are saved locally on your hard disk...

The first time you start the movie it should come up and ask where to save it, I choose desktop just cause it is easier to find. Click the menu option again to stop/save it. (or use the short cut key)

Once you set the location, every on your start during that session will save there.

Unlike a snapshot when I choose the menu item to save a movie to disk nothing happens. Someone told me that it would be in my SL folder, but there is nothing there either. Perhaps if I knew the file format it saves in I could do a search for the latest of that file type.

Is there any tutorial that deals with this?

thanks

Mel Brown

same thing here - i start a movie, it pops up to ask where to save, i choose the location. not knowing if the movie starts as soon as i choose the location, i wait a few seconds, stop the movie, restart for a few seconds, etc to try see if anything saves to my hard drive and nothing does. is there a recent bug with this or whats up?

just checked with someone else too, after they choose location of save, they also get a pop up box asking for compression size - that never comes up for me. is there an option in preferences or something that i need to change?

I have a hunch that the ability to capture movies to disk might be dependant on the amount of RAM you have or possibly the video card. I will try a test with my low budget laptop system later and see if it works to save the movies.

Melandra: When the movies are captured they are saved in .AVI format. THe first time you save one you'll be asked for a save location and a filename. after that all the movies are saved with that name plus a suffix of _001, _002, _003, etc. So the default name for the first movie you save would be SLmovie_001.avi

Well, I did a quick test with my laptop. It has a poor video card and very little RAM. I was able to start a movie capture to disk and did get the standard save file and compression requesters. So I guess my hunch was wrong.

If you are still having troubles capturing moveis to disk, you might want to try a 3rd party program like FRAPS or a free program called Taksi. In my experience they work better than the standard SL movie capture.

ok.. I have fraps. I will give that a whirl... long time since I used it though.

I have lots of memory and a good video card. I can run photoshop with my 40 meg makeup file loaded for my skins and SL at the same time.

I will do a search for the .avis

thanks