Ns 3.0 Trailer

moofin · March 2005

<div class="IPBDescription">how</div> How did they make it so the movie took up the whole display and theres no black on the top or bottom of the movie. Most movies you watch have some sort of widescreen black space at the top and bottom of the movies. Here I included the comparison.

Example of the black widescreen:

<img src='http://www.cttv.us/stuff/black.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

An example of the movie taking up the full screen:

<img src='http://www.cttv.us/stuff/noblack.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

thanks in advance,

muffins.

gazOzz · March 2005

Oh boy...

The letterboxes (that black areas) in that CS movies are probably added later to give a more cinematic look... If you capture video at a resolution that have 4:3 ratio (ie 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200, etc) and do not add letterbox; Voila, you have a full screen video that took up whole display area for 4:3 ratio monitors... Not that complicated eh... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

EDIT: Oh sorry I saw the second image later... Thats up to your video editing program... You can customize the output video size so that it will be wider than standart 4:3 ratio... Not that different from adding letterboxes... The raw image is still at 4:3 ratio; but top and bottom pieces are cropped and final video resolution is wider... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

Jabba_The_Hunt · March 2005

This is often done in games videos to a) remove the visible weapon of the person recording it (aka red vs blue) (though this is obviously not true in the examples above) or b) to make the game look better (textures look horrible when you are up close so if you only display the center of the image people only see high res images). c) just looks plain cool.

moofin · March 2005

Well the CS screenshot was a movie I made and I am trying to figure out how to get rid of it in Vegas Video for my NS movie. I record using FRAPS and am not a fan of startmovie :\

Cyndane · March 2005

There are video editing software tools out that that take out those black bars if that is what appears when you are recording with frawps. I have never actually used frawps. I used the old method where you record a demo and then export it into multiple bitmap images and put them in sequential order on a video timeline (aka. premiere).

Sadly, most of the software out there is very expensive to the average person for just making videos of in-game footage.

coris · March 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cyndane @ Mar 13 2005, 07:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> There are video editing software tools out that that take out those black bars if that is what appears when you are recording with frawps. I have never actually used frawps. I used the old method where you record a demo and then export it into multiple bitmap images and put them in sequential order on a video timeline (aka. premiere).

Sadly, most of the software out there is very expensive to the average person for just making videos of in-game footage.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
That's what most people does since you get a better result.

wey · March 2005

well there is no real difference between a 4:3 image with black areas at the top and botton, and a cropped image (640*272 in the trailer). You can easily do that with VirtualDub (opensource software).

Ns 3.0 Trailer

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