Windy --

I have tried numerous times to play your frc file in FSX, but no can do. As I mentioned windows sees it as a Windows Media Player file and then when I try to play it in FSX I get this error message:



Bruce

I don't have anyway to send you an frc file. Can't load it here. Would need your e-mail address to send it as an attachment I guess.

Btw, what version of FSRecorder do you use?? I use 2.01. If you use a different version that may explain the error message!??

OKay, I sent you an frc file. Hope you can play it.

Hah! Didn't realize it was Canarsie frc. It was indeed recorded with version 2.1. don't know why it said that. I don't have any custom scenery for New York or JFK. All I have is FS Genisis and GEX. I was indeed left of the center line but not off the runway!! (maybe you were just joking about my amateur, seat of the pants flying)  

I think FS Recorder is only useful for replaying sections of a flight for the purpose of making FRAPS video clips. FSR is not a recorder per se -- it saves the flight data and replays the flight from the data.

Have seen a number of FSX videos recorded with a hand held camcorder. Some are pretty good and they record the sound, but using instant replay, FS Recorder and Fraps video clips are better tools in my opinion.

I've been looking for a good tutorial on FSX video making and can't find any. There are a number on You Tube, but they're not very good. Doing a comprehensive tutorial would be very time consuming and right now it's motorcycle riding and fishing time in the Rockies!! I think anyone wanting to learn video making can figure it out using FRAPS, instant replay, and Windows Movie Maker. They can ask questions here or in the AVSIM Video Forum.

One problem with WMM is that it can't handle full size FRAPS video clips (screen shots are no problem), so check the half size option in the FRAPS Movie Setup window. I'm going over to my FSX pc to see if half size works okay--- can't remember.

I am also looking at this editing program as a possible replacement for the one I have now:

http://www.cyberlink.com/stat/edms/english/2011/Q4/PDR10-Holiday/enu/PCMWeb3.jsp...

Well, Windy, I just spent about 4 hours trying to make an FSX video using FSX Instant Replay, FRAPS and Windows Live Movie Maker. Sadly, WLMM just can not handle the full size FRAPS clips. It can do the half size, but there is a lot of shimmering and the quality of the video is not good. I seem to remember that the Windows XP version of Movie Maker was somewhat better with the FRAPS clips. Using just FRAPS screen shots from FSX WLMM is wonderful and produces a great slide show type video, but it appears that the only way to make decent FSX videos seems to be with a good quality video editing program. Here's a Top 10 review list:

http://video-editing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/index.html

I think I'm going to replace my Adobe Premire Elements 4 with Cyber Link Power Director 10.

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Lou, if you are reading this you can do non FSX videos like vacations, family outings, etc with video clips and pictures from your digital camera very nicely and add music, voice over, captions etc etc using Windows Movie Maker, but as I said above you best invest in a video editing program for FSX vids.


Bruce

I just remembered -- some cameras use the MOV video format. That is Apple's format and MS doesn't like Apple --- so WMM doesn't recognize MOV files. They have to be converted to the AVI format or one that Windows recognizes. Another good reason for getting a video editing program. 

when you click on FINISH MOVIE, and then choose save to my computer, SAVE MOVIE WIZARD will appear. You should click SHOW MORE CHOICES and select BEST FIT TO SIZE.

You can play with settings there. Unfortunately it doesnt allow to choose codec directly, so basically you dont have much control over quality\size.

windplayer wrote on Jul 16^th, 2012 at 8:56am:
The FINISH MOVIE is greyed out so I can't click on it, which means I don't get the other options.

Cappy wrote on Jul 17^th, 2012 at 4:45am:
Isn't blender a 3D model creating program, like 3DS Max? Or am I confusing it with something else. Are they free?