Recording and playing back flight videos

[data790]

Hello people of the world, I have a problem. I want to record me doing some fun stuff with a variety of aircraft - harrier and f-14. I ma having trouble with recording the flights, in that the video will not play back animation like wings folding or afterburner. Another is putting these videos into a format that can be viewed in powerpoint. I want to put a presentation together for some chums which features these planes in video format. Does nayone know or can help me with these problems?

Cheers guys, and hope i have entered this problem in the right area. Data790

[garymbuska]

It sounds like you will have to find a program to record with other than FS as powerpoint will not recognise the output of fs video. Not sure which one  I am not thet familar with power point.

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

FRAPS! You will have to register it though and pay for it to use the full functionality. Keep in mind though that a 1 Minute  movie is about 400MB's big...Be prepared to spare some HDD space.

Cheers,
Ashar

[data790]

I just need to be able to play the video in windows media player, but I don't know how to do that. I know it can be done, since people have recorded and edited various flights and posted them in the misc files.

Thanks for the advice so far gents.

[Hyperion2]

Use FRAPS to capture the video.  (Don't worry about registering it.  For what you want to do, the free version is completely fine.)

Then bring your video clips into your movie editor of choice.  (XP comes bundled with Windows Movie Maker, which is decent at best.  If you want to invest a little bit of money you can get a little more bang out of a third party editor.  However, WMM has all of the features you'll really ever need.)

Import it into the editor, edit, save.  Boom.

[data790]

HYPE, you are a dancer, that's champion that. FRAPS will do just fine, cheers for your help.

[Hyperion2]

I assure you, I'm no dancer.  (Ask ANYONE.)

Glad I could help.  I'm rather familiar with movie-related things, so if there's anything else I can do to help you along the way, just gimme a shout!