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AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2007.12.30 22:09:00 - [1] AlleyKat Presents: EVE ONLINE VIDEO MAKING TUTORIALS SHORT FILMS TO HELP YOU MAKE YOUR FILM Ok, I decided to put together some tutorials in video format to cover the most common questions about making an EVE-ONLINE film. These tutorials are going to grow as I add more to the list, and plan to cover the basics of getting your EVE-ONLINE film off to a good start and more. All of the tutorials are in MKV format, should you need codecs for this, the links are below. I did consider using Flash video format, Windows Media etc, but MKV gave the best compression when using screen capture recordings. All of them were recorded straight from my desktop and are narrated by me - apologies for that! These are not small, blurry tutorials, they are full screen and specifically designed for EVE-ONLINE videos. Introduction Introduction to EVE-ONLINE video making - link - 70MB Windows Movie Maker 1: How to encode beyond 640 x 480 - link - 28MB Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 1: Setting up new projects and templates - link - 9MB Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 1: Setting up new projects and presets - link - 4.5MB EVE-ONLINE Camera work tutorial under construction Fraps tutorial under construction Should anyone else wish to create their own tutorials, please post the link here and I'll update this main page. Also if anyone has something specific they would like to see covered, then post the topic here and it will be considered. Credit where credit is due, many thanks to Chribba for supporting this project by allowing the tutorials to be located on the www.eve-files.com website. Also thanks goes to Dark Shikari for helping me with the compression of the screen capture. I'd like to thank any other contributors in advance of them creating a tutorial. AK. You'll need the CCCP (codec pack) or VLC (standalone player) in order to play these video tutorials. Also note you need a fast computer to play it back without stuttering. If your computer is too slow to play the videos at full speed, download this codec pack and install only the included CoreAVC. If you have the CCCP or FFDshow already installed, disable H.264 decoding in its video codec settings to activate CoreAVC. Note that VLC does not support CoreAVC.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2007.12.30 22:09:00 - [2] reserved
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2007.12.31 22:12:00 - [3] Thanks for the feedback guys, New tutorial added on camera work. AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.01.04 15:13:00 - [4] New tutorial added on Fraps, Thanks again for the comments guys, AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.01.07 19:53:00 - [5] Originally by: Garia666 Anyone knows how to fix the advance camera work? if tough i have advanced options on and use the set parent or interest option.. nothing happens.. No idea why actually.. any idea why ? It is currently not working using the premium graphics, which is why the tutorial was filmed in classic mode. I'm sure CCP will fix this soon. AK
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.01.08 23:03:00 - [6] Ok, New tutorial added on importing media and general using of the timeline for Sony Vegas. Enjoy, AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.01.09 07:33:00 - [7] Originally by: enymphia Awesome job dude.. deserves a sticky, when are the Advanced tutorials for vegas coming out, for us already familiar with the software. :) Thanks for the feedback, I have planned to do another 2 or 3 Vegas tutorials, but would not want to go too advanced - otherwise the tutorials become too much about Vegas and not about EVE film making. I'm sure you can appreciate it would be boring as hell to watch a tutorial about every single button and tool that Vegas has to offer. These tutorials need to be as practical as possible. These early tutorials will seem technical, but you will see them ease into more focused and EVE-related topics as I go forward. I'm wide open to feedback on which topics to cover for future tutorials, so feel free give me some ideas - and I'll see how best to cover the topics and still keep it EVE-related. AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.01.13 20:16:00 - [8] New tutorial added for Adobe Premiere on importing media - enjoy! AK
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.01.19 23:21:00 - [9] Hi all, I've jumped the tutorial on titles for Sony Vegas and added a new one for Motion Blur. Credit goes to Greme for bringing this up and I hope all you Vegas users get some good use out of it. The title tutorials will be done very soon... AK
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.01.24 17:53:00 - [10] Originally by: Fitz Grikkle did something change since Trinity? The advanced camera options are not currently operating under the Premium graphics.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.01.26 20:07:00 - [11] Originally by: Austex Would still like to see the info on Advanced Titles, when you get around to it... New tutorial added for Sony Vegas on this very topic. Adobe Premiere one should be ready by tomorrow. The tutorial really only scratches the surface for the pro-type titler in Vegas and I'll add more usage of it as I do more tutorials and incorporate it as much as possible. AK
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.01.28 01:02:00 - [12] New tutorial added for title work in Adobe Premiere. AK
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.01.28 01:40:00 - [13] Originally by: Yadee Edited by: Yadee on 28/01/2008 01:23:27 Nice videos But, how do you like compress the files etc ? make them publishable ? I have various fraps of stuff, and im not that interested in doing all kinds of editing to them, i mainly just want to compress them so they become much much smaller, while retaining quality (I havent watched the into movie yet, my line isnt all that and that file was a tad large to download atm, maybe the info im looking for is there) The tutorial on windows movie maker shows you how to encode inside of windows movie maker and retain the quality. AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.01.28 18:10:00 - [14] Originally by: Feng Schui Any chance you can do a tutorial on the rendering + encoding processes? All of my videos are way too big :( Absolutely - this will be covered in due course.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.02.05 22:54:00 - [15] Thanks again for the comments guys, really good to get feedback on these. With regards to the camera issues, I have (as I'm sure others have too) evemailed the relevant department(s) and hopefully a solution / workaround can be found soonÖ. AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.02.10 11:45:00 - [16] New tutorial added for Sony Vegas on Intros and setting the scene. Extended waffle by me on this one, you have been warned AK
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.02.24 12:54:00 - [17] Originally by: Tobias Sjodin Question, what settings do I use to export with a source at half 1680x1050? Premiere complains about resolution not being dividable by 16. Some insight on this would be appreciated. Tob 840 x 524 should do it EVE-ONLINE VIDEO-MAKING TUTORIALS
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.02.24 15:45:00 - [18] New tutorial added for rendering inside Sony Vegas, covering: + Windows Media Video rendering + Uncompressed AVI rendering For details regarding the different settings to use and general codec information, may I suggest Dark Shikari's guide/discussion/information points HERE. Contained within that thread is a link to 'The Autoencoder' which is mentioned in the tutorial. AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.02.29 21:09:00 - [19] Originally by: Sonic Nelson I don't know if you explained anywhere in any of your tutorials, but how did you do the intro movies like they were playing independently of each other like your walking through best buy? Did you use Adobe After Effects? If you could point me in the direction of a tutorial that would be appreciated. Yes, After Effects is what I used and that effect is a piece of cake to do. 1: Open a new comp. 2: Drag all videos into the comp timeline. 3: Turn them into 3D layers. 4: Adjust the X, Y, Z and rotation properties of them to suit. 5: Create a new camera and make it 3D also. 6: Keyframe the camera movement. 7: Render or pre-compose. It's easier to move the camera than try to move the videos, and if you were to add text to this - I'd be tempted to create a null object and link everything to it - and then adjust the null layer positional properties to create the moving effect. It will work either way. Hope that helps, AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.03.05 22:58:00 - [20] Originally by: Greme I'd also like to bring to everyone's attention (though as usual, I'm probably the last to find this out), that the advanced camera controls now work with premium graphics content. Get on those ultra sexy shots now! Thanks Greme for the update! Speaking of updates - I've upgraded my system and have had to re-install everything I used to make the tutorials with, so bear with me and hopefully I'll finish the one for Exporting / rendering in Adobe Premiere soonÖ AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.03.08 21:21:00 - [21] Ok, New tutorial added for rendering inside of Adobe Premiere Pro, hope y'all get some use out of it. As mentioned in the tutorial I have upgraded my OS to XP Pro x64, and I want say that all the applications which are covered in these tutorials work fine with no hiccups at all. Also, one of the things I forgot to set up properly before doing this tutorial was the microphone level, so this tutorial is clear, but very quiet - some extra volume is needed when you play it back. Planning to cover transitions next for Adobe, should have something by next weekend. AK.
AlleyKat White-Noise	Posted - 2008.03.16 00:54:00 - [22] Ok, New tutorial added for transitions inside of Adobe Prem Pro. Enjoy, AK
AlleyKat White-Noise	Posted - 2008.03.16 12:58:00 - [23] Originally by: Greme Nice tutorial on the transitions! A bit of a noobish question here, but how do you get to view the videos in the project window in premiere as thumbnails as you have them, rather than the list style that I have them? There is a button at the bottom of the project window which is called icon, click that for thumbnail heaven. AK.
AlleyKat White-Noise	Posted - 2008.03.26 19:26:00 - [24] Thanks Greme - main page updated. The more the merrier. As stated, if anyone else wishes to create a tutorial for the community to watch, by all means do so and I'll update the main page. Regards, AK.
AlleyKat White-Noise	Posted - 2008.04.05 20:41:00 - [25] Originally by: FinalFlash84 thx a lot for your tutorial videos; they helped me a lot for getting familiar with Sony Vegas. But i have one question. I want the actual ships on the battlefield as an info besides the actual fight (for example over the Local Chat). I've already placed a black field on the local and also placed with the ProType Titler the shipnames there, but i can't change the colour of the ship names during a fight (when a ship gets destroyed) -> So a line, which is written in white, can't be changed to red. I've already tried as much as i know, but i don't think that there is a way to change colours in the Protype Titler. Is this correct, or can you help me? So many ways of doing this! My personal way would be to do the following: 1: In your main editing window, go to project media and select the 'white text'. 2: Open the text. 3: Click on the text name in the protype titler, to the left of the timeline inside the titler screen. 4: Click the button to the right of that called 'save to my collections' and give it a name. 5: Close the protype window. 6: Click/drag the 'empty' protype titler template to the desired position on the main editing timeline where the current 'white text' needs to change to 'red' 7: When the protype titler opens after you let go of it in the timeline, click on 'collections' and select your named collection style. 8: Alter the desired text to 'red'. 9: Close the protype titler screen and fine-tune the text on the main timeline track to appear only when the correct ship goes down. old text- bad guy1 bad guy2 bad guy3 new text- bad guy1 bad guy2 bad guy3 (now dead) My reasons for doing it this way, is you have a consistent file in your collection which will always be in the correct place and of the right dimensions as all the others. It can be used as a generic style, which is what the collections tab is for - making your life easier when dealing with multiple instances of dissimilar text with similar styles or vice versa. AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.04.17 18:31:00 - [26] Originally by: Fortune Mitford Hey alley thanks alot for the help been awsome In regards to the encoder refering to windows movie maker i can't seem to find the "profiles" sub folder i was wondering if ya could tell me where i could find it? thanks again Mit C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\Profiles Hope that helps, AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.04.23 20:51:00 - [27] Originally by: Noxxeh Hi! I have a problem with the export quality of Adobe Premiere. Have made an .wmv file, just like explained in the tutorial. But the Quality of the Output Video is not so good. The problem is that the chat text and the overview gridlines looks realy bad. Maybe i have to add some filters or some sort of stuff? Wild guess without being at your computer is the render settings. Using the menu options go Project>Video Rendering and then change the 'file format' to Video for Windows and the 'compressor' to 'none'. See how you get on with that. Originally by: Noxxeh EDIT: I have noticed that i can not use windows media video 9 codec. Not in Sony Vegas, not in Adobe Premiere Pro, so i downloaded the codec from Microsoft, but after installing, rebooting,ect there is anyway no codec. In Sony Vegas is get "No existing templates support this media" if i choose .wmv as file type. Any suggestions? Fraps file is OK, 1680x1050, looks realy nice. thx 4 help, Noxxeh Hmm, I'd be tempted to check whether you downloaded the correct codec pack from Microsoft's web site, there are quite a few confusing links contained within their site. If you think you did and still have this problem, V8 is fine. AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.04.23 20:55:00 - [28] Originally by: Fortune Mitford mm tried this but i don't seem to have a profiles folder in shared do i have to create one or is this a vista suks problem I don't use Vista so no idea I'm afraid. Try pressing F1 in the program and searching the help file for details of the location of the custom profiles for Vista. AK
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise Atrum Tempestas Foedus	Posted - 2008.05.05 11:56:00 - [29] Originally by: Osiris Occido Nice work here AK! ..a perfect explanation of how to setup WMM for spitting out eve videos w/ close to perfect output. thanks for capturing my good side ;) One thing I discovered later but could never update my original post is if you're using Widescreen (16:9) vs. Normal (4:3) aspect ratio, there is a setting in Windows Movie Maker that will govern the final output and effectively override your profile settings. So even if you created a profile for 1600x900 resolution, if your WMM option is not set for 16:9 aspect ratio, the video will come out in 4:3 and skewed to fit standard format. The setting in WMM is found under Tools > Options > Advanced tab, and you can toggle the Aspect Ratio setting between 4:3 and 16:9. Even if your computer has a widescreen display, the default setting with Windows Movie Maker comes in as 4:3. Heh, thanks man - got your portrait using the ingame image. It's a good point about the aspect ratio and something I did not consider - thanks for the update on that. You really should put some tutorials together for WMM, lots of people do use it and it'll be great to add some more to the first page. AK.
AlleyKat White-Noise Atrum Tempestas Foedus	Posted - 2008.05.21 18:27:00 - [30] New tutorial added for Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 on time remapping - enjoy. AK.
AlleyKat White-Noise	Posted - 2008.06.22 22:40:00 - [31] Originally by: Kelron Queldine Great tutorials, thanks. My pleasure. Originally by: Kelron Queldine The documentation for the H.264 encoder says that using it for videos of 1680x1050 or higher may cause playback problems, and that happens to be the resolution I run Eve at. So what's the best way to drop the resolution (to 1440x900, maybe) with minimal quality loss? Will choosing a lower resolution for the project in Premiere do it, or is there a better way? Oddly enough, there is a tutorial sort-of on this topic which I plan to do, which doubles up as a workaround to when the project settings are wrong, but you've already done the editing. Bottom line is this: lowering the resolution from 1680 to 1440 is not a problem as it's only 16% or so of the original fraps size and so should retain its quality. You could even go for a 50% reduction and it not effect the quality to a degenerative amount - exception to this would be full screen GUI shots, as they ever-so-slightly blur the interface out the higher percentile reduction you go, and seem to effect higher resolutions more than lower. A 1920 resolution looks barely passable when dropped down 50%. As always, do some ten second tests and see what you think - if it looks good to you, go for it. AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.07.06 21:28:00 - [32] New tutorial added on how to correct project files inside Adobe Premiere Pro, and applies to either 2.0 or CS3 versions. Had a lot of questions recently about this, so here is the solution/workaround for you. Enjoy! AK
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.07.18 16:58:00 - [33] Originally by: Hehulk These videos are brilliant, and really helped me along the way to making my first eve video. Cheers for making them Ak Got one question about vegas though. I made a custom ProType Titler, saved it, but whenever I try to use it it fails to load correctly (All I get is an application window, no input fields or suchlike) where all the default ones work fine. Any ideas on what I should check, or shall I just resign myself to have to customise the effects on all the protypes I make? Are you opening the ProType Titler with a blank template, and just dragging the custom text design into the ProType Titler timeline? AK
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.07.26 17:51:00 - [34] Originally by: Klaitu BenJohhn Quick Question.. How do I get the game to stop "streaking" the stars in relation to my ship when I am set to parent on a non-moving object? Image of Streaking Obviously, this Caldari turret in front of my local station isn't warping through the cosmos.. Any ideas? I believe this is unavoidable for the most part, however, it is accurate - as the camera is displaying motion based on its parent target, and this includes the streaking effect.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.07.30 12:08:00 - [35] Originally by: Fon Revedhort Thanks for the tutorials, they are awesome :) My pleasure. Originally by: Fon Revedhort Has anyone expirienced any rendering problems with vegas pro 8.0b (build 217)? I'm trying to compile a movie (about 11 min long) and the actual rendering corrupts at the middle Either I get an error message suggesting me sending a report (lol, as if anyone could be bothered) or it just shuts up. Both nets me a file with an uncompleted video. Uh? I think you may have a bad frame within one of the fraps files - try a fully uncompressed output. Originally by: CryAgony hello guys, what can i do for compensate the quality of the vid when i increase the speed for example 200x? What loss in quality are you experiencing? When previewing, or at the final render stage? AK.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.08.04 17:53:00 - [36] Originally by: washy2 Hola...Thanks for Teh Guide... "WallOfTextInBound" Now im using the Movie Maker Tutorial...changed my Res to my Game Res and such... Wonder how i can Speed up the movie im making...with Movie maker...i dont have Adobe Vegas or other Progs...Just Fraps, Movie Maker and the H.2something encoder thingy by DS If there is a way to speed it up... so to shorten down the length of the movies im making (In MovieMaker)...someone tell me please :) Thanks Washy2 1: right-click your footage. 2: select video effects. 3: Add the 'speed up footage - double' option. 4: render.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.08.16 15:58:00 - [37] Originally by: Koken blackdude Hi i just wanted to know how to put music in to anobe pro cs3. When i drag music files in there it gives me an x or does not let the music file go into the que box. I am using simple mp3 files. Adobe needs an MP3 encoder to do this - try this and read the notes on how to install it.
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.08.24 19:02:00 - [38] Hi all, New tutorial for Premiere Pro, which I've put in the MISC heading for how to create the S*ar wars opening title sequence. Enjoy, AK
AlleyKat Gallente White-Noise	Posted - 2008.08.29 17:08:00 - [39] Originally by: Murtific Any tutorial videos out on how to use H2.64 auto encoder?? I got it to encode, but I cant get the sound that I have in premier to encode with the movie... Any tips??? So I've got another problem now. I cant get it to encode at all now. I went back and used ur adobe rendering tutorial #5 and have the exact same settings. When using H.264 autoencoder, it flies through the encoding and the finnished product is just a gray screen 0.o... Render out the audio into a WAV file (from Prem) and tell the autoencoder to use the audio contained in the separate file. Any probs after that - use StaxRip. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2008.09.30 11:02:00 - [40] Originally by: Stork DK \o quick question about sony vegas 8.0 pro If i got my timelin setup all nice and done and then want to speed everything up by say 2/3 how would i do that ? Or do i have to manually reduce time of every clip? I'm not at my place right now, but the tool you want is 'velocity', which is adjustable on a track basis. It's essentially an adjustable curve, similar to motion blur, which you can use to speed up and slow down time on a variable basis with keyframing. If you want to just speed up one clip to a fixed amount, one way is to hold down CTRL and grab the far right edge of a clip and drag it left to speed it up, or should you wish, drag it right to slow it down. On the clip itself, it should display a zig-zag line to indicate a time compression when doing this. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2008.10.04 21:50:00 - [41] New tutorial for Vegas, for adding a post-processing effect to simulate an HDR / Bloom look and feel to your film. Enjoy, AK.
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2008.11.16 13:30:00 - [42] Originally by: Jan Blackoak I'm trying to use the H264.autoencoder (uncompressed file from adobe PP CS3) but its giving me some error about a 'wait' file whats the issue? I'm sorry to say that DS has for the most part abandoned providing support for this, and my skills of internet tracking reveal him to be a developer for x264, good going for him - but back to you... I have no suggestion for you or anyone who has an issue with this program, other than generic advice for encoding - if something doesn't work, use something else. And for MKV container files, there are many good, free programs out there which will suffice - such as Staxrip. Try it and them - see how you get on. Regards, AK.
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2008.11.16 13:37:00 - [43] Originally by: washy2 Weeeelp.. Again... This Time i have gotten Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 i've made a Vid in it which is currently at 30 mins... So where is the Speed up Button? .. As 30 mins is abit long maybe... Thanks Me As I think I mentioned in another tutorial - to speed up and down footage, in a similar way to the time remapping effect in Premiere; Take a look at the motion blur tutorial. Using the process there you can alter the relative speed of each clip/sequence - instead of selecting motion blur, select 'Velocity' and you will have unlimited control over the speed of he footage. AK.
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2008.12.31 05:28:00 - [44] 1 Year 21 Tutorials Now it's time for another one. This short one is an extension to the camera tutorial and covers one of the best shots from one of the best vids made this year, "The Angel Cartel - Push Eject" by Kyoko Sakoda. Thanks for all the 'thanks' over this past year, but truthfully, thanks to you for making videos that the community can watch and enjoy. This past year has seen some great videos and I think next year people will push their creative talents even more. Keep frapsing, keep editing. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.01.16 21:11:00 - [45] Originally by: dreamsequencer AK, do you have any tips regarding the adverts for the tourney. F.I. How to make your movie 1024x576 if you frapsed at 1680x1050 and how to make it 25fps if frapsed otherwise and many more :D P.S. Seems EON-magazine has forgotten the E-ON Award for Chief Tutor of the year. You have my vote. Sure, All it would take is to create a project which is 1024x576 @ 25FPS, import the footage and scale it down. The fps, is kinda irrelevant, as Vegas/PremPro will just render it out at 25 FPS and you'll miss out on a few frames, but it should synch just fine. As these adverts are being streamed, at this res, the final image will not be that sharp anyway, so be prepared to loose some of the quality regardless of what you do, although I'm sure Loxy will try to what he can to keep it looking good. As for an award - I think they should have CCP awards for everything to do with the pod pilots of EVE, complete with forum shiney add-ons...but as for me, thanks for the suggestion, but there are better tutors of EVE out there that probably deserve an award more than I do. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.01.17 00:07:00 - [46] Originally by: Sabine Perrine HALP PLOX! I've been frapsing a few things just to hold on toand i decided to throw it together into a movie. However when i export the video is messed up. a little back ground (in case it helps): 1) if i view the fraps files directly they look fine 2) the preview (i'm using adobe CS3) they look fine... but when i go to export it (I've tried multiple ways including following what you do in the tutorial step by step) it appears as though the frame size was shrunk then re-expanded (so each of the pixels are massive and it looks like it was filmed in really low resolution). Any help would be apreciated Change the codec from Cinepak codec by Radius to uncompressed, or lagarith, of huffyUV, anything but Cinepak... If that is not the problem, then try an Adobe media encoder for WMV or Quicktime. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.01.19 22:34:00 - [47] Originally by: Sabine Perrine at the risk of sounding like the worst kind of noob, how? If you watch the APP rendering tutorial and go to Time index 8:57. There is a tab in there for 'compressor' and this is what you will be setting as indicated above. Or change the project settings on the fly using the project settings tab in the main toolbar pull-downs at the top of the screen, whilst in the normal Adobe interface. Project=>Project Settings=>General=>Video Rendering=> etc I may have the menu slightly wrong, as I use CS4 now, so it's from memory. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.02.01 14:42:00 - [48] Originally by: Jovainon Same here. Tried, waited, refreshed, waited again, came back later, still seems broken. Uploaded twice now - I have no clues as to why it does not download, as the preview seems to work just fine and the file itself plays just fine on my rig, regardless of whether I use media player classic, WMP, DivX player, vlc, etc. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.02.24 19:07:00 - [49] Originally by: Jonas Kain Thanks AlleyKat for the tutorials, they are a great help! I recently bought Sony Vegas 9 Platinum to use with my new video camera and I have decided to try my hand at making EVE videos as well. Is there any way to get the Pro Type Titler for the non-Pro version? I really like what it does but I don't want to (and can't) put out the money for the pro version. Thanks! Well, to my limited knowledge the pro-type titler is only for Pro. However, I see nothing wrong with downloading the trial version of Pro Linkage and just playing with the titler. You should be able to export title work, and I'd probably suggest making as many titles as you can during the trial, for future usage. AK.
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.02.25 18:47:00 - [50] ^^That's good advice from Kyoko there, Jonas. Additionally, don't forget that Fraps will record audible sound, which would include TS/Vent/eve-voice etc. It's not perfect, but if all you want to record is 'fleet-noise', it'll do the job. Incidentally, I use a fairly cheap Microphone, and if you see the most recent tutorial - the section on setting up the camera on sisi, all sound for this was recorded with Fraps. Regards, AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.03.24 18:36:00 - [51] Originally by: Naomi Wildfire I got an issue with Sony Vegas 8. I try to render my video with a resolution of 1680x1050. If i try to encode it as a .wmv it crashes after around 10 seconds. I tried to render it as an .avi now and now it seems to stop at around 2 minutes. Is there any way to fix this? I'm using a Quad core, 8800 GT and 2 Gig of Ram. What is the error message it gives you? AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.03.25 22:23:00 - [52] Originally by: Naomi Wildfire I once got a unexpected error but mostly it crashes directly to the desktop it seems. I googled for a solution but there isn't any, just a lot of crashes. Hmm, 1: Could be a bad Fraps file. 2: A large project causing too much strain on Vegas. 3: Something else. If it's 1, then it'll be a case of opening up the project and using the loop region selector, highlighting a Fraps file in the timeline and hitting shift+M. This will open up your selective pre-render option. Choose the 'uncompressed' template, exclude the audio, and click start. This'll pre-render the file and if there are any issues with it, it'll tell you it's failed and why etc. If it's 2, then you'll have to do partial render, similar to the above, but for larger chunks, say, 5-10 minutes a piece in an uncompressed AVI export. Once you have them all rendered - you should theoretically be able to import them all into a new project and render out the whole thing in one go. This is unfortunately the way it is sometimes when doing final renders, and Sony Vegas, just like Premiere Pro etc will just stumble over large projects. Maybe because there are too many frames, maybe there are too many files to handle - take your pick as to why it happens. Basically, the more complex, the more that can go wrong. If it's 3, then you got problems which could be more fundamental to your Computer, such as that Sony Vegas itself is bugged/corrupt/infected, or you have codec issues in the Windows directory. It literally could be anything. Try 1 and 2 first, see how it goes. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.04.05 12:10:00 - [53] Originally by: Roozter Thank you for all the information. Do you know if I can use Ulead Video Studio to make Eve videos? I've had it for a couple of years and am somewhat familiar with it. Save me from having to purchase and learn new software. Thank you. I have not used the software myself, but did take a look at their website and it does seem as if it would work fine. So long as an application will allow you to edit to the same resolution as your fraps and export it, then job done - and Ulead looks like it supports HD-1080 AVI files. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.04.05 22:47:00 - [54] Originally by: Wraith Kull I just downloaded windows media encoder 9 from the link in your video and installed it, I'm probably just blind but I can't find the profile editor on all programs or anywhere else and I don't know where else to look. image
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.04.14 12:51:00 - [55] Originally by: Murk Loar AK,these tutorials are so much simpler to understand than the official software tutorials,you've given me faith in Prem Pro again \o/. So many basic little steps I was overlooking that really make a huge difference to the final cut.Excellent job mate. Many thanks Murk, Prem Pro and Vegas are complex, but to edit an EVE film in them, it's not essential to know the whole sheebang - which is one of the reasons I did these tutorials, to show it's not as hard as anyone might think and to eleviate any potential head-banging. Look forward to watching your work - and hopefully I will be doing some more tutorials soon. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.04.14 21:35:00 - [56] Originally by: Koken blackdude When i looked at the templates all the ones u had were completly different from mine and i have no clue what to pick please help :( For an uncompressed AVI file, choose the top one 'default template (uncompressed)'. That's if you want to use another application to compress it into a container like MKV or DivX etc. If you want to output an WMV then review the first part of the tutorial for a guide, do some ten second runs, test the quality, if it looks good - encode the whole thing with whichever settings you choose. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.04.15 12:24:00 - [57] Originally by: PhantomMajor just downloaded your tutorial film but can't open it as it's an mkv file.... any suggestions? tried using windows player and real player Originally by: AlleyKat You'll need the CCCP (codec pack) or VLC (standalone player) in order to play these video tutorials. Also note you need a fast computer to play it back without stuttering. If your computer is too slow to play the videos at full speed, download this codec pack and install only the included CoreAVC. If you have the CCCP or FFDshow already installed, disable H.264 decoding in its video codec settings to activate CoreAVC. Note that VLC does not support CoreAVC.
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.04.16 10:01:00 - [58] Originally by: PhantomMajor cheers for that, i got the tutorial working :-) i have fraps installed and have grabbed some images for what i want to use.... next will be looking at the windows movie maker... i have noticed that when i watch the fraps images with real player the yellow numbers aren't there and when i watch it thru windows movie maker they are there.... is that supposed to happen? Typically, if you have Fraps open, it will display the yellow markers in any editing program. If you are seeing the yellow markers, even if Fraps is closed, that's a new issue I've not encountered. Try doing a small encode from WMM and see if the yellow markers have been included in the encode or not. Regards, AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.04.16 13:08:00 - [59] Originally by: PhantomMajor I am a total 100% noob at this, so go easy mate :-D Apologies, I meant exporting a short/small Fraps file which has been imported into WMM, very much like the example I demonstrated in the encoding tutorial, but really as a test to see if the yellow markers would be in the final file. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.04.17 15:37:00 - [60] Originally by: PhantomMajor ...so I have started to look for Adobe Premiere pro 7 and hope to download it on the cheap/or for free I'd take a look at the trial downloads first for Premiere Pro CS4, available here I think they still do 30 day trial. Failing that, try obtaining a trial version of CS2 or CS3 - any further back than that and it starts to get less supported and less compatible with modern systems. Don't forget Sony Vegas, they have a 30 day trial here and will make less of a demand on your system resources, plus some people find the interface is much easier than Adobe's. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.04.27 12:31:00 - [61] Originally by: PhantomMajor hi alleykat, i have sent you a pm via eve Hi Phantom, Probably best to drop me a line via my youtube site Here. I'm basically on the road too much at the moment and this is really the fastest way to get hold of me. Oh, you will also get kudos for correctly identifying the location of the background image. Everything else on that site is work in progress, which it needs. AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.04.27 12:33:00 - [62] Originally by: Yblarbo Janks ...However your guides made it quite easy, and Janks may have finally got all he needs to take a crack at making movies... Good to hear it, Veto need moar vids... AK
AlleyKat Gallente Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams	Posted - 2009.04.28 12:26:00 - [63] Originally by: Marko Riva ...do you have any good MP4/MKV encoders you could recommend (or a plugin for Vegas)? I have Vista 64 and the autoencoder from the other thread doesn't work for me. Sadly, the autoencoder does not work under certain circumstances and the Player who developed the scripts for it, is no longer an active player and it is not supported. This is one of the reasons why I have not put together a tutorial for MKV/H.264/x264 files. The other reason is that it is still a container [MKV] and codec [264] under development by open source and bespoke people/organisations/groups, and as a result it is hard to provide something for the community of EVE which could be described as 'established'. I do recommend the Autoencoder, as I have found it to be one of the few 'click and go' solutions out there and something which has been developed specifically for the EVE Video-making community. If anyone wishes to try and contact Dark Shikari OOG, and enquire whether he would consider re-engaging in the development of this type of tool, by all means do so. In the meanwhile, there are many very good tools out there for MKV, and on a personal note have found Staxrip to be very user friendly with many options. You can find it here and judging by the website, it had a recent upgrade this month - so should be compatible with Vista. Regards, AK
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.05.15 12:28:00 - [64] Originally by: Eraggan Sadarr Originally by: RiotRick The only thing i am still missing is how to make .mkv's. Anyone got a good tutorial on that? Same here, i have made several mkv's with various programs but i can't quite get the result to my liking. It would be cool if we could have someone, with mkv experience to make a little tut. :) Guys, Dark Shikari put together a very very in-depth guide to encoding vids HERE. I'm happy to do a video tutorial on it however...maybe this weekend. Regards, AK
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.05.31 23:11:00 - [65] Well, I did have a full-on new tutorial completed, using some funky After Effects compositions, but for some reason the screen capture decided to self-destruct itself. However, this sticky isn't and shouldn't just be me rabbiting on, it is for everyone and there are many topics out there which could be covered. So, the floor is and has always been open for anyone else who wishes to put together a tutorial. If anyone wishes to do so, I use Camtasia Studio with the following settings:- 1152x864 recorded @ 15 FPS All of the tutorial editing is completed in Camtasia, and if you've used Windows Movie Maker, you'll find it very similar. I generally record each tutorial several times, and just trim it down to size from there. For those of you that wish to see a tutorial on a particular topic for me or anyone to put together for you, throw some ideas in here and I'm sure they will get read. As I stated on the very first page, for those that put together a tutorial, I'll update the main page so the community can find it easily. Regards, AK
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.06.02 21:57:00 - [66] Originally by: Ometoch Edited by: Ometoch on 02/06/2009 14:21:46 AK, first off, thanks very much for the tutorials... I have rediscovered my love for making videos.... I do have one small problem, however, and maybe you can shed some light on it.... is there a way to get rid of battlespam?? What I mean is, I was playing around while doing a misison, and CTRL + F9 gets rid of the GUI, the damage is still showing up.... take a look at the screenshot I have attached to further illuminate this... http://eve-files.com/dl/197898 I would love to find a way to get rid of this, if possible. Thanks again!!! Is this what you are looking for? EVE-ONLINE VIDEO-MAKING TUTORIALS
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.06.22 18:56:00 - [67] Originally by: Poses hey allykat thanks for the tutorials, I jsut picked up sony vegas and i'm wondering how one gets the clips (of fraps) to play faster (that is 5 minute clip in 2.5 minutes or w/e) I think I sort-of answered this earlier in the thread, but you essentially need to goto the track options in a similar to motion blur and select velocity, and then alter the keyframes to suit. AK.
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.06.23 10:01:00 - [68] Originally by: Poses i'm sorry to be such a bother, but could you be more specific? in your motion blur tutorial you opened up the video bus... but when i did there was nothing relevant to velocity. So saying it is like motion blur is confusing me... Not a bother: I'm not at my place right now, so found a picture showing the option to add a velocity envelope here. With regards to the motion blur tutorial, the velocity envelope works in a similar way, where you have an adjustable curve for clip speed. AK
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.06.23 18:10:00 - [69] Originally by: Poses now i'm jsut confused as **** Hmm, Which version exactly of Sony vegas are you using?
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.06.24 18:20:00 - [70] Originally by: Poses 8.0 'kay, You need to be clicking on the little bit where all the controls are for the track itself. Not the footage and not the video bus track. This is what will give you the option over inserting a velocity envelope, which you can then alter to suit. The cheap and dirty way to do it - is to CTRL-click the right-hand edge of an individual clip/footage/fraps when it is in the timeline/track and drag with the mouse LEFT and this will speed it up the more you drag - as you are telling Vegas to conform the speed to match the length of time/space it is taking up on the track. Doing this will give you a zig-zag effect, indicating time compression elements for future 'at a glance' reference. AK.
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.06.27 20:52:00 - [71] Originally by: Barak Tor hey AK I just upgraded to CS4 from CS3, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to set up project settings (pixle aspect ratio/FPS w/e). IIRC in CS3 there was a button to make your own preset... tell me its that easy in cs4 and I'm just really really dumb. o/ I did a trial of CS4 and quickly found out it was too reliant on one of these and as a result, was dropping rendering times, particularly with After Effects - so I stayed with CS3. I'm sure there was a button for templates and creating presets, but cannot quite remember where Adobe put it I'm sorry to say. AK
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.06.28 02:34:00 - [72] Originally by: CCP Zymurgist Hey AlleyKat! I was wondering if you would transfer this Tutorial over to the EVElopedia? Its a great place to keep your guide up to date and it can be linked to the MyEVE resource thread/EVElopedia page so people can still have access to it. You might like to check out this guide on the EVElopedia to get started on making a new page. There is also a FAQ to help you out. Unfortunately I am going to need to unsticky this in a week as we are trying to move all awesome over to the EVElopedia. Just post back here on this thread when you have the the guide set up there and I will make sure there is a link to it from a sticky in this forum. Sure, I'd love to.
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.06.30 19:20:00 - [73] EVElopedia page link I fail at wiki coding, so just used a converter and tided up the text a little. Before this thread drops off the page, I'd like to link one of my favourite videos by one of EVE's best video makers before CCP got wise and hired him. LINK AK EVE-ONLINE VIDEO-MAKING TUTORIALS
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.07.07 11:04:00 - [74] Originally by: CCP Zymurgist Thanks for the EVElopedia page AlleyKat. I've added it to the resource page and still have a link to this thread so people can still read and respond to it. Now I shall remove the glue. My pleasure - I will update that and overall think it could do with a bit more of a wiki-feel to it, so I'll see what I can do about that too. AK EVE-ONLINE VIDEO-MAKING TUTORIALS
AlleyKat The Unwanted.	Posted - 2009.09.19 15:38:00 - [75] Originally by: Blackcamper Hi.. I need to down load the Chat channel blocking. but on eve files I can't get it to down load.. is ther ahoter link. ore can you try to see if you can get it to work.. Thx for all the help you giv us Just checked the link, it did download, although I'll admit it took a few restarts on the download to complete. AK EVE-ONLINE VIDEO-MAKING TUTORIALS

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