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Posted by Brian Duray at 09:16 AM on Apr 04, 2008
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just wondering anyone know how to take the race replay and put it on youtube. do you need any special movie software or can it be done with windows movie maker?

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Posted by Johan Nilsson at 09:34 AM on Apr 04, 2008
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Windows Moviemaker will do OK. It doesn't have endless amount of finesses and effects but it'll do - my own S7 Season review is in post-production stage. :)

Posted by Dan Ortega at 10:43 AM on Apr 04, 2008
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Looking forward to viewing your cinematic masterpiece Finn.

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Posted by Johan Nilsson at 11:58 AM on Apr 04, 2008
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You may have a part in it. ;) "Dan Ortega as ... ..."

Posted by Christian Ejstrup at 01:48 PM on Apr 04, 2008
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LOL, nice 'fro u got there :-)

Posted by Don Fleming at 02:15 PM on Apr 04, 2008
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I use the FRAPS tool to record the replay footage to AVI video files (Using F9 key to build each file while viewing replay footage in game), then MovieMaker to combine/edit those into a single & compressed WMV type vid file. FRAPS has free trial or limited versions, or a cost to have unlimited usage. GdLk!

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Posted by Johan Nilsson at 02:28 PM on Apr 04, 2008
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Tack ska du ha, Christian. :)

Brian, you might want to take a look at Jerry Chen's group http://www.race2play.com/homepage/show_posts/490
for some ideas.

Posted by Brian Duray at 10:19 PM on Aug 07, 2008
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are there any other ways of converting the files to avi files or another format
or are there any free programs for making movies?

Posted by Aaron Jackson at 12:15 AM on Aug 08, 2008
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Fraps is the easiest way to get in game footage. You can even get live driving video because the replay in car looks like its riding on glass.

And just use windows movie maker to compress the avi.

Its by far the easiest, there are other compression programs that add cool special effects, but you need fraps because it doesnt compress anything while your recording if you use a program that compress it while you record the frame rate would drop to nothing.

Posted by Jerry Chen at 08:17 AM on Aug 08, 2008
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Brian, FRAPS records into uncompressed .avi. You can the use windows movie maker (comes with XP, not sure about vista) to edit it, add music, text etc. Its not very fancy or powerful, but it does the job. When you save it, windows movie maker will allow you to compress it. if you're going to put it on youtube, windows movie maker will be just fine, since youtube reduces the quality some what anyway.

If you want to convert the unencrypted .avi file that FRAPS generated to some other format(like to burn to a dvd), there are lots of free programs that will do that for you.

Google: Super vid converter, that's a very nice and powerful free program that will convert back and forth between almost all the known media formats.
Virtual Dub is also free, but its a little more limited in the file formats it can work with.

Everything you see in the video group Finn linked, that was made by either me or Finn, was done with the above FRAPS + Windows movie maker. Finn is using the free version, that's why he has a water mark at the top of his vids. He then stitches the 30sec segments together in WMVmaker.