How to use Inworld movie tool

I am Curious on how i go about using the inworld movie tool, anyone have any ideas on how this works Plz Respond to this post...



Thanks Aces

I'm not sure if what you mean by the "in world movie tool" is the llSetTextureAnim() capabilities of LSL, but I did an exercise of bringing a short .mpg clip into an in-world movie.

Its a matter of using one of several tools that are available to extract .JPGs from a .MPG, and then using Gimp or PSP or whatever your favorite graphics tools is, and putting 16 or 64 of these images onto a single .JPG.

Upload the texture, and animate it at the same rate that you captured the .JPGs, and you have a little looping .mpg clip in-world.

Keep in mind that for my experiment, I captured at 12 frames per second, so even with a 4x4 texture of frames, it was barely over 1 second long.

I'll be glad to share the object, texture, and script. Its not rocket science.

And the clip I used to work all this out is 1-second of television history that the US government doesn't want you to see on your public airwaves. I'll share it just to spite the FCC. Its Janet Jackson's famous "costume incident" from the Super Bowl (uncensored with Janet in her full glory).

- Ace

I think that Aces is asking about the feature in SL that lets you sort of record a small film of you inworld doing whatever it is you want to film (that whole movie thingy). I am also curious about how it works.

I got it to work on my Mac. I anwser the same question at /invalid_link.html Seems to work straightforward on the mac, but susposedly some people have had compression problems.

Quite a while ago Stephanie Linden posted these instructions on how to make a movie in SL:

TO MAKE A MOVIE

1. Change your screen resolution to as small as possible:
a. Right-click on your Windows Desktop.
b. Choose "Properties", then "Settings".
c. Choose 800 by 600 pixels.
d. Click "Apply", then "OK".

2. Log in to Second Life.

3. Activate the Debug menu. To do this, hit Ctrl-Alt-D. "Debug" should appear to the right of Help in the main menu.

4. Set your movie resolution. Click "Debug" and select "Set 320x240 Windowed for Movies" in the menu. IMPORTANT: your Second Life window will be reduced significantly. During filming, you must leave the Second Life window at this size on your screen.

5. Hide the UI. Click Ctrl-Alt-1 to hide the UI so that it won't appear in your movie.

6. Start your movie.
a. Click Ctrl-Shift-A to start the movie (this command also stops filming).

7. Pick a place to save your movie. IMPORTANT: select or create a folder NOT on your desktop (for example, any folder on your C drive will work).
a. Once you have your folder selected, click "Open."
b. Click "Save".

8. Choose video compression. Next the video compression menu will appear, giving you a choice of codecs (compressor/decompressor).
a. Select "Full Frames/Uncompressed". IMPORTANT: this will generate a large uncompressed video file - about 1 Gb per minute - that you will need to compress during or after editing.
OR
b. Select "Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec". IMPORTANT: you will first need to install the Windows Media 8.0 and 9.0 codecs (if you don't already have them). You can find these at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/wi...cdownload.aspx.
c. Click "OK," and filming begins.

9. Capture your raw footage. To stop filming, Click "Ctrl-Shift-A".

10. Edit your movie using your choice of video editing application.

Yes exactly this is what i wanna know how to do..

Ty for replying with instructions.. i will give it a whirl lol Thank you