Making SL Movies... Help Me!

How about a thread completely unrelated to the UPDATE! Woohoo!

I'm having a problem taking movies in SL.

When I click file, and Start/Stop Movie to Disk... The game brings up the file dialog. I tell it to save as SLMovie.AVI on my desktop.

I move around for 30 seconds or so, make a little test movie, and then click file, Start/Stop Movie again.

I then check my desktop, nothing. Do a search for the file, nothing. Search my whole HDD for all AVI's. No recently created AVI.

What am I doing wrong?

Anyone?

errr i forgot how this thing work again, you need to select the uncompressed one to make it work, some of the video with decoders dont really work in SL, or was that another game o.O


I kinda gave up and use Fraps instead (www.fraps.com)

Been awhile since i tried vid thingie in SL now, see if i remember.

When making a movie using fraps or the ingame editor is there a way to turn off the UI and other items that clutter the screen..including the top menu bar so u capture just a clear shot?

ctrl + alt + 1 takes away the whole UI

Also, for some shots... where you want to show building menus or what have you try going to view and uncheck tool bar etc

if you need any help contact me inworld

I'm having the exact same problem (as the original poster) and would love to know if you found a solution and what it was? Thanks!


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... and if anyone at all knows the solution or has general tips to share. Thanks all!

to anyone with similar challenges, I found this link from the sl home page.

http://secondlife.com/machinima/

I switched to another computer and it worked. Seems the issue was the codecs (see Eric Linden's white paper).