WAC Squad Training - Day 1 (AAR)

Post by **fuzzhead** » 2007-02-23 12:34

IronTaxi yea that would be the plan eventually... right now just an introduction and orientation...

Sekular_Eternal · Post by **Sekular_Eternal** » 2007-02-23 14:50

Sorry for the huge-ly late reply, finished up with the training and continued playing on to hone what Fuzz taught, next thing I know I had half an hour to get ready and get to work >.> (PR shouldn't be played by gaming addicts =P)

Did the training today with Fuzz, Nephrmuus, Bigboss, Nimblejack, Noir and Myfrog (who's antics were hilarious to the point of distraction =P) and it was definetly worth every second. I'll definetly be passing the knowledge on to others as Fuzz told us to =)

A personal highlight was the supressive fire training he put us through which we used in a later (active) round to great effect

Thanks again to Fuzz for sharing his SL wisdom and to all the others who made it a successful session.

Post by **fuzzhead** » 2007-02-23 23:49

heading into Gloryhoundz West right now... meet me on USMC.

2. Hx.Clavdivs
3. KP/PlaCiD
4. duckhunt
5. U.G.H.
6. vanity

noir-colombia- · Post by **noir-colombia-** » 2007-02-24 00:40

yeah it was fun to train and plenty usefull.

was cool to work along with u sekular.

hey bigboss when u will upload the video? i wanna see myfrog (the deaf student) stalking with his binocs and being tked by fuzz (a classic)

bigbossmatt · Post by **bigbossmatt** » 2007-02-24 02:30

I have to do like 5 times 2hours worth of exporting a timeline then virtual dub each for maybe 40 mins
then upload to yoututbe.... its gonna be a few days, at this rate.. but it will happen, sometime next week (early next week) and I 'll let yall all know about it in this thread

Desertfox · Post by **Desertfox** » 2007-02-24 02:31

bigbossmatt wrote:I have to do like 5 times 2hours worth of exporting a timeline then virtual dub each for maybe 40 mins
then upload to yoututbe.... its gonna be a few days, at this rate.. but it will happen, sometime next week (early next week) and I 'll let yall all know about it in this thread

If you use vegas you dont even need to do vdub. Download the trial.

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/downlo ... sp?DID=698

bigbossmatt · Post by **bigbossmatt** » 2007-02-24 02:35

Well since I'm self taught, I don't know about all these tools, but thanks for that I'll look into it.

I just came back to add ill upload these in installments (as they are done the first one or two of 5 shoul be up tonight...
where?
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bigbossmatt

But I will post here when the whole 5 vids are done, so you cane watch them all at once..

noir-colombia- · Post by **noir-colombia-** » 2007-02-24 04:07

wow thnks

Gecko1969 · Post by **Gecko1969** » 2007-02-25 01:53

Thanks for working on the videos. I am refreshing every 2 hours

bigbossmatt · Post by **bigbossmatt** » 2007-02-25 03:33

Gecko1969 wrote:Thanks for working on the videos. I am refreshing every 2 hours

For your own sake I would not expect it too soon.

I have run into some issues. Youtube, makes it so they have to be under 100megs and less than 10mins. Otherwise this could have been easy...

Basically, my normal method of compression that has worked for me in the past has decided to not work, so now I have to compress it in a less efficient way making this take longer and I'm uploading the first one now, but I'm capped so it might not work...

Basically, it maye be later this week... sigh... If all had gone to plan I would have had about 3 up by now...

Gecko1969 · Post by **Gecko1969** » 2007-02-25 06:15

Bummer. I wonder if the raw footage could be put up by a torrent file? Then we can view without having to deal with 10 minute bites.

Maybe PR can host it?

bigbossmatt · Post by **bigbossmatt** » 2007-02-25 08:15

maybe tomorrow, maybe the following day, but no later than that, I will be uncapped, until that time, nothing will be uploaded.

BTW the raw fraps files amount to 24.7GB, so I'm as keen as you guys to finish this up and free up my full hdd.

As far as problem solving my virtual dub problems, here it goes.

I exported the timeline from Premier to an uncompressed video/uncompressed audio .avi file format.

I opened the .avi file in virtual dub and compress the video with DivX6.5.1 logical 1 codec at 1000kb/s and compress the audio with mpeg layer 3 @ 3200kb/s (I normally do 44k but most of the options have been removed for some reason through the program), and then I go "save as avi" and I get this message:

source image format no acceptable (error code -2)

:s

I could uninstall/reinstall both premier and vdub, and will do so, and try again.

Apparently when you install new programs (such as my new midi technology...) it can do 'stuff' to 'things' and 'issues' 'arise'.

I'll let you know how this goes, but if anyone can shed some light on this subject, link to good forums for this stuff etc, I'd appreciate it..

So now, you know not to wait desperately for this... lol

bigbossmatt · Post by **bigbossmatt** » 2007-03-02 05:26

Guess what?
I fixed it.

Expect all 5 videos to be up by Monday.

They will be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bigbossmatt

I'll post again once they are all finally up and ready to watch. In the mean time, they are being exported/rendered/uploaded.

TAT'S ALL

Vicktor Vauhn · Post by **Vicktor Vauhn** » 2007-03-02 06:07

YES! I was just digging for this thread earlier and was sad to see it seemingly abandoned.....You are my hero.

Post by **fuzzhead** » 2007-03-02 10:31

thanks bigboss i hope this comes in handy.... expect to see another thread up in the next few days with a new round of training, hopefully this time not just myself will be helping with the training

EPatrick · Post by **EPatrick** » 2007-03-02 11:05

Roger!

Sekular_Eternal · Post by **Sekular_Eternal** » 2007-03-02 15:10

Righty-o Fuzz, if the times are roughly the same as the week before last I'd be willing to help out with the training in any of the ways we were talking about.

Ironcomatose · Post by **Ironcomatose** » 2007-03-02 16:04

yeah we need things like this so us few who are on these boards can lead the rest. Someone should make a thread with these videos on the first post so it can be seen more.

KatanaGFR · Post by **KatanaGFR** » 2007-03-02 16:33

Any chance on a new run of this crashcourse? Also in the hope at a suitable time for Europeans? Since i cant do it at those times in the weekdays..