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[Redwulf_34]

I'm doing my first movie using Virtual Dub and Movie Maker. I have two questions not related.

1) Is there a filter or way to make a quick camera shake? On a high speed fly by I want to make the camera shake quickly just as the plane blow by it.

2) I am doing the movie at a screen size of 640 X 480. How do I make it stay that way. IE when the viewer goes to full screen mode to watch the completed video I want it to stay at 640 X 480 and not "stretch" the video and distort the quality.

Thanks in advance for the help!

[Redwulf_34]

I'm doing my first movie using Virtual Dub and Movie Maker. I have two questions not related.

1) Is there a filter or way to make a quick camera shake? On a high speed fly by I want to make the camera shake quickly just as the plane blow by it.

2) I am doing the movie at a screen size of 640 X 480. How do I make it stay that way. IE when the viewer goes to full screen mode to watch the completed video I want it to stay at 640 X 480 and not "stretch" the video and distort the quality.

Thanks in advance for the help!

[Joe-90]

1) no, sorry. If you find an esay way, let us all know. Adobe After Efects Motion Sketcher is the usual tool.

2) nope, again, sorry. When anybody puts any player to full screen it resizes it to their resolution. But there isn't any distortion. In fact, in WMP, when you resize it to a higher res then sometimes it is actually smoothed out and looks better!

[Direwolf19]

Please also be aware that you will lose pixels if you add the camera shake as it just takes your picture and moves and slides it around. If you look at the resolutions of any of the IL-2 movies that have shake on them you will notice they are not a perfect 640x480 or 800x600, but something smaller because pixels had to be cropped off the film so the black area resulting from the shake would not show.

[Davinci..]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Redwulf_34:

1) Is there a filter or way to make a quick camera shake? On a high speed fly by I want to make the camera shake quickly just as the plane blow by it.

Thanks in advance for the help! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

not in virtual dub, but yes there is. I have a camera shake filter/plugin for adobe after effects. I never could find one for virtual dub(my editor of choice), but the after effects one is very useful. I gave it out to a handfull of people years ago, so im sure some people here still have it. If you need it just give me your email address, and i can send it to you.

It of course requiers adobe premiere and after effects.

[Redwulf_34]

Thanks for the offer, but I don't have Adobe Premiere.

I have a few ideas on the camera shake.

[Mysticpuma2003]

For my movie I captured everything at 1152x864, then put it onto the timeline which was sized at 800x444.

I then used 'Motion Sketcher' tool in After Effects Pro 7 to create the camera shake, and managed to lose no pixels from the final resolution of 800x444, because all the shake was used from the excess frame size.
In effect I had 352pixels horizontal and 420 pixels vertical to play with.

This was also useful for zooms and pans and rotations.

As far as 'stretching video goes, as long as you set the timeline to 640x480 and don't crop it at all when you render the final video, that's what people will see.

So even if they enlarge it it will keep the same aspect ratio!

Cheers, MP.

[TheDix3]

talking about cam
is it possible to set a cam in some place to record without use the aircraft visual?

[Mysticpuma2003]

Yes.

Create a mission, then in objects choose static camera...you can set the height of it too.

[TheDix3]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mysticpuma2003:
Yes.

Create a mission, then in objects choose static camera...you can set the height of it too. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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