So what do you guys use to make replays?
Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:41 pm
I took my time to make a zillions sequential screenshots of JKidd making this crazy half-court shot, but I don't know where to begin with the ~100MB of bitmaps. Does anyone know of a nice, free utility for making an animated GIF from a sequence of image files?
Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:13 am
You can download the trial version of Paint Shop Pro which includes Animation Shop. It's easy to use. www.jasc.com
Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:27 pm
I use Virtualdub to turn screenshots into an avi file using divx compression. But then I found a quicker way - Fraps. Fraps can record video in 640x480 and you can set the frame rate of the recording - 5,10,15,20,25,and 30 fps. However you need a good cpu, video card, good amounts of hard drive space, and an AVI conversion program like virtualdub for compressing the captured avi(because fraps captures take TOO much space). For GIF creation i would use 123 avi to gif convertor.
There are advantages and disadvantages of each method -
Taking sequential screenshots is a lengthy delicate process which can cause skippy replays if you skip to many frames in the replay before taking another screenshot. Also, the replay command bar is annoying in replays - it is huge and I crop it out. It is possible to create more exciting replays with screenshots because you can rotate the camera(bit by bit) in any direction taking screenshots to create a 3d pan or rotation during the replays. You can also take more than one screen shot on each frame to produce slow motion. A great example of why you would slow down and/or rotate the camera would be if you dunked completely over somebody(I've done it in Live 2003 several times(I'm sure I'm not the only one - with existing replays), and I mean OVER them like Vince Carter in the Olympics. Another example would be if you dribbled through someones legs or stole the ball, blocked the dunk/layup, etc.
Fraps is more simple. However there is no 3d rotation or slow motion possible without stopping the action in the middle of the capture. Load Fraps before Live. Under Movie options in Fraps make sure Enable Video Capture is checked and set the Hotkey to you liking. Also set the frame rate you want to record at(30). When Live starts up one of the corners of the screen should have a framerate display. Play a game until you want to save a replay then pause. You have to set your resolution to 640x480 because Fraps free version(1.9d) can't record any higher resolution than this. Go into instant replay, rewind to where you want the replay to start recording, set your camera, its angle and zoom. Press(at the same time) the SLOW forward button on the replay bar and the Hotkey you set in Fraps to start the capture. Quickly press the Fraps Hotkey again as soon as you want to stop the recording."Where's the replay at?" Its in your Fraps folder and looks like this:
nba2004 2003-12-13 02-20-40-82.avi
It will be any where from 15-100 MB's!!! Please compress to whatever format you like. This file depending on you computers speed and etc. will playback faster than you want and you will have to change the frame rate to get it to play normal - try converting to 24 or 25 frames per second with the program "AVIFRATE". This is because Fraps doesn't constantly keep frame rate at what you select - it all depends on performance, for instance -
I could capture NBA Live 2003 while using the highest antialiasing without a choppy capture, but in 2004 I can't use any antialiasing or my captures will end up choppy frames per second.
System Specs:
AMDAthlon T-Bird 166@1250
2x256 Samsung DDR@166(333)
k7n2 delta-l mainboard
Geforce4 TI4200 64mb
SBLive Platinum
WinXP SP1
Get an Avi conversion/compression program like Virtualdub, windows movie maker(though i don't recommend it), 123 avi to gif convertor is great. If you want directions on how to compress with Virtualdub private message me.
There are advantages and disadvantages of each method -
Taking sequential screenshots is a lengthy delicate process which can cause skippy replays if you skip to many frames in the replay before taking another screenshot. Also, the replay command bar is annoying in replays - it is huge and I crop it out. It is possible to create more exciting replays with screenshots because you can rotate the camera(bit by bit) in any direction taking screenshots to create a 3d pan or rotation during the replays. You can also take more than one screen shot on each frame to produce slow motion. A great example of why you would slow down and/or rotate the camera would be if you dunked completely over somebody(I've done it in Live 2003 several times(I'm sure I'm not the only one - with existing replays), and I mean OVER them like Vince Carter in the Olympics. Another example would be if you dribbled through someones legs or stole the ball, blocked the dunk/layup, etc.
Fraps is more simple. However there is no 3d rotation or slow motion possible without stopping the action in the middle of the capture. Load Fraps before Live. Under Movie options in Fraps make sure Enable Video Capture is checked and set the Hotkey to you liking. Also set the frame rate you want to record at(30). When Live starts up one of the corners of the screen should have a framerate display. Play a game until you want to save a replay then pause. You have to set your resolution to 640x480 because Fraps free version(1.9d) can't record any higher resolution than this. Go into instant replay, rewind to where you want the replay to start recording, set your camera, its angle and zoom. Press(at the same time) the SLOW forward button on the replay bar and the Hotkey you set in Fraps to start the capture. Quickly press the Fraps Hotkey again as soon as you want to stop the recording."Where's the replay at?" Its in your Fraps folder and looks like this:
nba2004 2003-12-13 02-20-40-82.avi
It will be any where from 15-100 MB's!!! Please compress to whatever format you like. This file depending on you computers speed and etc. will playback faster than you want and you will have to change the frame rate to get it to play normal - try converting to 24 or 25 frames per second with the program "AVIFRATE". This is because Fraps doesn't constantly keep frame rate at what you select - it all depends on performance, for instance -
I could capture NBA Live 2003 while using the highest antialiasing without a choppy capture, but in 2004 I can't use any antialiasing or my captures will end up choppy frames per second.
System Specs:
AMDAthlon T-Bird 166@1250
2x256 Samsung DDR@166(333)
k7n2 delta-l mainboard
Geforce4 TI4200 64mb
SBLive Platinum
WinXP SP1
Get an Avi conversion/compression program like Virtualdub, windows movie maker(though i don't recommend it), 123 avi to gif convertor is great. If you want directions on how to compress with Virtualdub private message me.