by duster27 » Mon May 10, 2004 2:07 pm
Hello, all. Here is what I have learned about making videos in FS2K. First, realize that these videos are not videos in the sense of an .mpg file or Quicktime movies, which can be played as standalone files. FS2K videos are more renactments or replays, needing FS2K to be running to do so. They are located in the "My Flights" folder under the "Flights" folder, and as you can see they are normally quite small in comparison to an .mpg or similar file.
Once you've made a video, in the Remarks section type in the Flight the video was made from. For instance, I have a video entitled "3 point demo runway 30" which started with a flight I made under My Save Flights entitled "Short final 30 Yorkton". It's a Super Cub on short final runway 30 in Yorkton where I fly from. Then in the future when I am going to runt he "3 point demo runway 30" video I first load the "Short final 30 Yorkton" flight.
Loading that first seems to work just about all the time, and you can even change aircraft once it's going. Every now and then I get what I call a "flashback" in that after I select a
video, the computer keeps jumping from start to reloading the sequence to start to reloading, etc. If you just hit the P key and pause it for a second it seems to solve the problem.
There are two other ways to get a video. One is simply to use a video camera, which works well with a laptop or one of the new flat panel displays, but will show bars on a normal cathode ray tube monitor (unless you have a very expensive camera with a monitor sync. Or you can use a nifty screen capture utility called "My Screen Recorder" which you can download (free to try, about US $29 to buy). Just go to any search engine to find it. Very cool and very detailed, but I suggest you have at least a 1.8 Mhz machine with 512 Mg RAM for the latter.
Hope that helps. Cheers,
Duster 27
