Without describing the intent, I would like to know if it is possible to export movies from Secondlife (I.E, what I see as I move about will be saved to a video, preferabley without the toolbars and all that.) Can camtasia take care of this?
Here's hoping,
-Koh
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Koh Costello
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08-22-2005 18:33
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Phoenix Psaltery
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08-22-2005 19:59
Without describing the intent, I would like to know if it is possible to export movies from Secondlife (I.E, what I see as I move about will be saved to a video, preferabley without the toolbars and all that.) Can camtasia take care of this? Here's hoping, -Koh Kohl, all that you have to do to capture video in SL is choose "Start/Stop Movie To Disk" under the FILE menu (or press [CTRL]-[SHIFT]-A). You do that once to start recording, and again to stop. WARNING: the files produced by this method can be incredibly huge. P2 _____________________
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Koh Costello
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08-22-2005 20:03
I thank you greatly. I noticed this shortly after I asked, thus that the idiocy of my asking results in my banging of my self head into my desk for the rest of the evening.
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Kathmandu Gilman
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08-23-2005 00:54
The term for what you want to do is called Machinima and there are lots of articals on methods and techniques all over the internet.
VirtualDub is a great freeware program very useful for conversions and such. STOIK Converter is great too for a few conversions Virtualdub can't do Fraps, great for recording the screen video. _____________________
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Puck Pacer
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10-09-2005 21:37
Kohl, all that you have to do to capture video in SL is choose "Start/Stop Movie To Disk" under the FILE menu (or press [CTRL]-[SHIFT]-A). You do that once to start recording, and again to stop. WARNING: the files produced by this method can be incredibly huge. P2 Hello. I do this, and no video is saved. I use the default filename, and even after a search of my drive of all .avi files, all I found was a 'recent file' shortcut in some windows directory. It was set to the place where the video was supose to be saved, but no find of the video. |
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Elle Pollack
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10-09-2005 23:52
You'll be better off using Fraps (from fraps.com), which is what most SL Machinima makers use. Even the Lindens admit that the built-in video capture in SL sucks. I've not worked with Camtasia but it ought to work as well.
Tip: if using Fraps and you need to hide the SL UI, press ctrl-alt-shift-D in SL to reveal the debug menu, and then use Ctrl-alt-1 to show and hide the interface. Tip 2: The free version of Fraps sticks a logo on the top and limits recordings to 30 seconds. For only $30 or so it's worth getting the full version, but if you're poor like me, you can crop the watermark out without really hurting the video. I used an AVISynth script + VirtualDubMod to do this, and I can offer the script upon request. _____________________
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