Video Tutorials

makman94 · 08-13-09, 06:52 AM

hello,

i have made a video tutorial for one friend of mine here in subsim in order to 'get' him inside the advance techiques of manual targeting (this video is 6 parts).
unfortunately i am not a 'guru' in making videos so the videos have no sound and also i didn't manage to find a way to show written informations as the video running .as my friend is greek i explained him the videos via phone .but i am sure that people who are a little bit familiar with manual targeting will understand what i am showing at videos

also i made a video with my technique at hydrophone hunting(this video is 3 parts) .it is very simple and...working at most of the situations great . READ THE README.

there is a very little cheating in this technique but it is very ...little .the cheating is this: when the sonarman reports contact for the very first time we know that the target is about 20km far away.

all the videos can play with windows media player

edit: i have converted the .avi files to .wmv files and their size is heavily reduced! the manual targeting tutorial is now 425mb (total size of 6 parts) and the hydro tutorial is now 205mb (total size of 3 parts)

can be found at my filefront page

bye

Laufen zum Ziel · 08-13-09, 11:12 AM

Thanks. Will take a look.

Pisces · 08-13-09, 12:00 PM

Downloading it aswel. But why post it in the mods section?

Pisces · 08-13-09, 12:44 PM

What codec does it use. I do not get any visual image or audio, with Windows media player 11 or Winamp 5.552

makman94 · 08-13-09, 01:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pisces

What codec does it use. I do not get any visual image or audio, with Windows media player 11 or Winamp 5.552

hello Pisces,
....thats very strange ....

i have the windows media player v9.0.0.4503 and works
also i can play them with divX player (my version is 7.2.0.19).download the free trial version from their site and see if ...works

i have used the VirtualDub-1.9.4 programme to compress them and codec is indeo video 5.10 (...driver name: ir50_32.dll )

note: the vlc player can NOT play the videos

let me know if you manage to play them please

bye

Pisces · 08-13-09, 02:25 PM

I guess my system didn't have those indeo codecs. Because after i installed them i got to see right stuff.

Dissaray · 11-01-09, 11:03 PM

Is the download called HydroHunt Tutorial? If it is then I think some thing I wrong with it. I tried down laoding it but it always seems to end too soon and the archive says it has ended unexpectedly when I try to open it. Just thought you would like to know. Oh, I found the tutorial that this thread is going on about, don't know if it works totaly just yet as it is till down loading.

The other one still dosen't seem to work. Shame though. Now that I can't have it for what ever reason I realy am curious as to what it is all about.

makman94 · 11-02-09, 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dissaray

Is the download called HydroHunt Tutorial? If it is then I think some thing I wrong with it. I tried down laoding it but it always seems to end too soon and the archive says it has ended unexpectedly when I try to open it. Just thought you would like to know. Oh, I found the tutorial that this thread is going on about, don't know if it works totaly just yet as it is till down loading.

The other one still dosen't seem to work. Shame though. Now that I can't have it for what ever reason I realy am curious as to what it is all about.

hello Dissaray,

yes,you are right...the hydrohunt tutorial video has some problems to download it ( just checked it ).it seems that this is an issue from ff becuase i remember that was ok when i uploaded it.
the other one (the manual targeting tutorial ) is ok...i download it without any problem
anyway, thank you very much for letting me know the problem with the hydrohunt video

i will reupload it again later this evening

bye

artao · 11-15-09, 12:39 PM

Hey there Makman. Good work. Likin' MaGui quite a bit, have had 'some' confusion so ...
Just watched the 6-part tutorial ... looks good, but as stated previously, needs sound. There I times I don't quite get what you're doing or why. Also re: download size, glad you reduced it, but could still be smaller. Did you record these at full screen resolution? Perhaps reduce them to 800x600 or so, that would cut the size even more.
Regarding the sound. It seems to me you WERE talking during the recording. I would like to help. Tho I can't provide a tutorial or info on recording a video-screen-capture WITH sound, perhaps I could add the sound to the existing videos if you send me some audio files to go with 'em. I use a wonderful nifty program called Blender ( http://blender3d.org ) which is a free, open-source 3D graphics app. A lesser known feature of Blender, however, is its video sequencer, with which sound can be added to a video. I COULD tell you how to do it, but would probably have to make a video tutorial myself to explain it

, thus my offer to add the sound myself if you send me audio files.
Wondering too, sometimes it's the obvious that we miss; are you SURE you had your microphone properly plugged in and selected as the recording source? I've missed that before my own d**n self

. I recommend doing a quick test with windows sound recorder program to make sure you're getting proper audio recording.
As far as sending me audio files to add to the videos. I HIGHLY recommend a program called Audacity. ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ) Again, free and open-source (I'm a serious open-source GPL advocate, heh) No need for 'high-quality' sound either. Mono with sample-rate of 22050Hz would be plenty adequate, and plenty small.
Respond here or feel free to PM me. If interested that is. Hope so as I'd REALLY like some audio with these tutorials. Haven't watched the HydroHunting tutorial yet, will soon, be glad to do the same with that one.

hope I can help

java`s revenge · 11-15-09, 02:15 PM

Artao,
I have made a tutorial for you in the manos gui thread.
Hope that you will get it.

artao · 11-15-09, 03:59 PM

Gotcha, thanks. Offer still open to add the sound to Maksman's tutorials tho.

makman94 · 11-15-09, 08:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by artao

Hey there Makman. Good work. Likin' MaGui quite a bit, have had 'some' confusion so ...
Just watched the 6-part tutorial ... looks good, but as stated previously, needs sound. There I times I don't quite get what you're doing or why. Also re: download size, glad you reduced it, but could still be smaller. Did you record these at full screen resolution? Perhaps reduce them to 800x600 or so, that would cut the size even more.
Regarding the sound. It seems to me you WERE talking during the recording. I would like to help. Tho I can't provide a tutorial or info on recording a video-screen-capture WITH sound, perhaps I could add the sound to the existing videos if you send me some audio files to go with 'em. I use a wonderful nifty program called Blender ( http://blender3d.org ) which is a free, open-source 3D graphics app. A lesser known feature of Blender, however, is its video sequencer, with which sound can be added to a video. I COULD tell you how to do it, but would probably have to make a video tutorial myself to explain it

, thus my offer to add the sound myself if you send me audio files.
Wondering too, sometimes it's the obvious that we miss; are you SURE you had your microphone properly plugged in and selected as the recording source? I've missed that before my own d**n self

. I recommend doing a quick test with windows sound recorder program to make sure you're getting proper audio recording.
As far as sending me audio files to add to the videos. I HIGHLY recommend a program called Audacity. ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ) Again, free and open-source (I'm a serious open-source GPL advocate, heh) No need for 'high-quality' sound either. Mono with sample-rate of 22050Hz would be plenty adequate, and plenty small.
Respond here or feel free to PM me. If interested that is. Hope so as I'd REALLY like some audio with these tutorials. Haven't watched the HydroHunting tutorial yet, will soon, be glad to do the same with that one.

hope I can help

the files are probably contain allready the sound (thats why they are so big ) but i don't know if there is a way to be activated somehow .
no, i didn't use a microphone for the simple reason that ....i don't have one !
these videos were made for a friend of mine and you have to be well known of the 90 degrees attack procedure in order to understand them becuase it is an advance technique on attacking with any angle we want (not only with 90 degrees) .
i tried everything to get them with sound but nothing worked so i made them for my friend without sound (they were not intended to be given in public )
yes, i would like you to give them sound , just tell me exactly what you want me to do
imo, a better idea is to make showing information panels as the video is running .can you do that ?

ps: i now have a programm tha Java suggested ( xfire) that is working ok ! meaning that i can record with it and have also the sound . only problem is that the files are getting extremely big ! 7 minutes videos are about 2.5 GB !!!!!

thank you very much Artao

artao · 11-15-09, 09:53 PM

No problem on the text panels front. That would probably make file exchange easier anyhow. Just send me a text file explaining what you want 'said' and at what point in the video in min:sec. If you don't have a mic, that would make it pretty hard to dub audio anyhow

re: file size. 2.5G for 7min!!!??? holy crap!!! that's insane!! are you using compression at all? what resolution are you recording these at? i can probably work file size issues out too, but at my connect speed it would take a rather large amount of time to dl 2.5G. Somethings gotta be mis-set or something. I'll dl that xfire program and take a look at it to see I can be of some help there.

I (and many others I'm sure) really appreciate you making these tutorials available for the public, as well as your mods!!

e-mail me to the address in my profile and we can get working on this.

(incidently AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! I just accidentally erased my whole career because I decided to delete some old saves, starting with the first one, and confirmed it without reading the confirmation window!! who'd'a thunk that it would delete all saves after it too!! OOF!! won't EVER do that again

)

<EDIT> hmm .. actually NOT going to dl xfire. looked at the faq, etc ... not something I want on my system, guess I'm kinda picky about that sort of thing. sorry. I could perhaps look into other video capture software; I know folks in the Blender community make a lot of vid-tutorials, I'll see what they use. I DID however notice in the faq something about recording video at half-size; have you tried that?

08-13-09, 06:52 AM	#1
makman94 Hellas Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2,325 Downloads: 182 Uploads: 7	Video Tutorials hello, i have made a video tutorial for one friend of mine here in subsim in order to 'get' him inside the advance techiques of manual targeting (this video is 6 parts). unfortunately i am not a 'guru' in making videos so the videos have no sound and also i didn't manage to find a way to show written informations as the video running .as my friend is greek i explained him the videos via phone .but i am sure that people who are a little bit familiar with manual targeting will understand what i am showing at videos also i made a video with my technique at hydrophone hunting(this video is 3 parts) .it is very simple and...working at most of the situations great . READ THE README. there is a very little cheating in this technique but it is very ...little .the cheating is this: when the sonarman reports contact for the very first time we know that the target is about 20km far away. all the videos can play with windows media player edit: i have converted the .avi files to .wmv files and their size is heavily reduced! the manual targeting tutorial is now 425mb (total size of 6 parts) and the hydro tutorial is now 205mb (total size of 3 parts) can be found at my filefront page bye __________________ Knowledge is the only thing that nobody can ever take from you... Mediafire page:http://www.mediafire.com/folder/da50.../Makman94_Mods Last edited by makman94; 10-30-09 at 09:32 AM.

08-13-09, 11:12 AM	#2
Laufen zum Ziel Eternal Patrol Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Hiding on the bottom Posts: 1,783 Downloads: 853 Uploads: 457	Thanks. Will take a look. __________________ RIP Laufen zum Ziel

08-13-09, 12:00 PM	#3
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	Downloading it aswel. But why post it in the mods section? __________________ My site downloads: https://ricojansen.nl/downloads

08-13-09, 12:44 PM	#4
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	What codec does it use. I do not get any visual image or audio, with Windows media player 11 or Winamp 5.552 __________________ My site downloads: https://ricojansen.nl/downloads

08-13-09, 02:25 PM	#6
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	I guess my system didn't have those indeo codecs. Because after i installed them i got to see right stuff. __________________ My site downloads: https://ricojansen.nl/downloads

11-01-09, 11:03 PM	#7
Dissaray 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 280 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Is the download called HydroHunt Tutorial? If it is then I think some thing I wrong with it. I tried down laoding it but it always seems to end too soon and the archive says it has ended unexpectedly when I try to open it. Just thought you would like to know. Oh, I found the tutorial that this thread is going on about, don't know if it works totaly just yet as it is till down loading. The other one still dosen't seem to work. Shame though. Now that I can't have it for what ever reason I realy am curious as to what it is all about.

11-15-09, 12:39 PM	#9
artao Officer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 238 Downloads: 144 Uploads: 0	Hey there Makman. Good work. Likin' MaGui quite a bit, have had 'some' confusion so ... Just watched the 6-part tutorial ... looks good, but as stated previously, needs sound. There I times I don't quite get what you're doing or why. Also re: download size, glad you reduced it, but could still be smaller. Did you record these at full screen resolution? Perhaps reduce them to 800x600 or so, that would cut the size even more. Regarding the sound. It seems to me you WERE talking during the recording. I would like to help. Tho I can't provide a tutorial or info on recording a video-screen-capture WITH sound, perhaps I could add the sound to the existing videos if you send me some audio files to go with 'em. I use a wonderful nifty program called Blender ( http://blender3d.org ) which is a free, open-source 3D graphics app. A lesser known feature of Blender, however, is its video sequencer, with which sound can be added to a video. I COULD tell you how to do it, but would probably have to make a video tutorial myself to explain it , thus my offer to add the sound myself if you send me audio files. Wondering too, sometimes it's the obvious that we miss; are you SURE you had your microphone properly plugged in and selected as the recording source? I've missed that before my own d**n self . I recommend doing a quick test with windows sound recorder program to make sure you're getting proper audio recording. As far as sending me audio files to add to the videos. I HIGHLY recommend a program called Audacity. ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ) Again, free and open-source (I'm a serious open-source GPL advocate, heh) No need for 'high-quality' sound either. Mono with sample-rate of 22050Hz would be plenty adequate, and plenty small. Respond here or feel free to PM me. If interested that is. Hope so as I'd REALLY like some audio with these tutorials. Haven't watched the HydroHunting tutorial yet, will soon, be glad to do the same with that one. hope I can help __________________ l8r, artao

11-15-09, 02:15 PM	#10
java`s revenge Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: at periscope depth Posts: 1,204 Downloads: 97 Uploads: 0	Artao, I have made a tutorial for you in the manos gui thread. Hope that you will get it. __________________ Last edited by java`s revenge; 11-15-09 at 02:39 PM.

11-15-09, 03:59 PM	#11
artao Officer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 238 Downloads: 144 Uploads: 0	Gotcha, thanks. Offer still open to add the sound to Maksman's tutorials tho. __________________ l8r, artao

11-15-09, 09:53 PM	#13
artao Officer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 238 Downloads: 144 Uploads: 0	No problem on the text panels front. That would probably make file exchange easier anyhow. Just send me a text file explaining what you want 'said' and at what point in the video in min:sec. If you don't have a mic, that would make it pretty hard to dub audio anyhow re: file size. 2.5G for 7min!!!??? holy crap!!! that's insane!! are you using compression at all? what resolution are you recording these at? i can probably work file size issues out too, but at my connect speed it would take a rather large amount of time to dl 2.5G. Somethings gotta be mis-set or something. I'll dl that xfire program and take a look at it to see I can be of some help there. I (and many others I'm sure) really appreciate you making these tutorials available for the public, as well as your mods!! e-mail me to the address in my profile and we can get working on this. (incidently AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! I just accidentally erased my whole career because I decided to delete some old saves, starting with the first one, and confirmed it without reading the confirmation window!! who'd'a thunk that it would delete all saves after it too!! OOF!! won't EVER do that again ) <EDIT> hmm .. actually NOT going to dl xfire. looked at the faq, etc ... not something I want on my system, guess I'm kinda picky about that sort of thing. sorry. I could perhaps look into other video capture software; I know folks in the Blender community make a lot of vid-tutorials, I'll see what they use. I DID however notice in the faq something about recording video at half-size; have you tried that? __________________ l8r, artao Last edited by artao; 11-15-09 at 10:08 PM.