Re: A Movie Creator
Posted: Tuesday 02 June, 2015 - 17:03
For anyone using or wanting to use the movie creator I have recently made some niceties that could be of help.
If you use one of the inbuilt codecs it might lead to disappointing results, what I suggest is to make your movies with the "uncompressed" codec (ie no codec). This however results in very large files and because of certain limitations this means the file has to be split up whenever one part reaches +1.4GB. To merge these together one can use the Batch-files in the attachment to this post.
- To use it, first download Mencoder/Mplayer from http://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
- Extract it so that at least mencoder.exe is in the folder where you will save the videos.
- Extract the .Bat files from MovieCreatorPostProcessing.zip to the same directory
- Pick a name for you video in the MovieCreator GUI (for instance "Filename" as I will use it here)
- Choose the "Full Frames (Uncompressed)" Codec
- Setup the rest and run your simulation.
- You should now have a folder with an amount (of rather large) videofiles named Filename_001.avi, Filename_002.avi etcetera.
- Open Cmd.exe from the start menu and change directory to the videosave folder
- Then you only need to run "TranscodeAndCombineEDMovies.bat Filename"
- Now there should be a much smaller Filename_Merged.mp4
If you use one of the inbuilt codecs it might lead to disappointing results, what I suggest is to make your movies with the "uncompressed" codec (ie no codec). This however results in very large files and because of certain limitations this means the file has to be split up whenever one part reaches +1.4GB. To merge these together one can use the Batch-files in the attachment to this post.
- To use it, first download Mencoder/Mplayer from http://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
- Extract it so that at least mencoder.exe is in the folder where you will save the videos.
- Extract the .Bat files from MovieCreatorPostProcessing.zip to the same directory
- Pick a name for you video in the MovieCreator GUI (for instance "Filename" as I will use it here)
- Choose the "Full Frames (Uncompressed)" Codec
- Setup the rest and run your simulation.
- You should now have a folder with an amount (of rather large) videofiles named Filename_001.avi, Filename_002.avi etcetera.
- Open Cmd.exe from the start menu and change directory to the videosave folder
- Then you only need to run "TranscodeAndCombineEDMovies.bat Filename"
- Now there should be a much smaller Filename_Merged.mp4