Dusty Posted October 5, 2012 Posted October 5, 2012 I'm trying to make an .roq video out of some clips I have in .avi form. Everything looks fine on the movie preview and the preview of each scene in QVM (Quake Video Maker). But when I go to generate the movie and make the .roq, the quality of the video goes down the toilet! I understand the video is going to look pixelated in an .roq, as I'm downsizing the resolution from 800 x 600 to 512x384. But that's not the problem. The color gets really messed up, turning to a tannish black/white and there's all sorts of artifacts all over the video. I suspect it may have something to do with the .avi codec I'm using, which is a version of Microsoft Video 1. But I want to have a more clear idea of what's causing this, as for me to re-shoot videos and compile them into an .roq just for testing is fairly time consuming! Thanks for any help!
CaptainChar Posted October 5, 2012 Posted October 5, 2012 theres several codecs you can download for free, divx, xvid, CCpack, etc, but some didint work for me, it all depends on the compression ratio
Dusty Posted October 5, 2012 Author Posted October 5, 2012 Are you first editing the avi in some other program like Vegas? Stupid question----> What did you set the quality to when you compiled the .roq in QVM? Did you leave on smoothing and brightness correction? No, I'm not editing the .avi at all first. And when I compiled, I tried setting the quality to the lowest possible, as well as towards the higher end, with those options checked and unchecked. Didn't seem to make a difference as far as I could tell. theres several codecs you can download for free, divx, xvid, CCpack, etc, but some didint work for me, it all depends on the compression ratio I'm guessing you mean "didn't work" as in they messed up when you put them into an .roq file right? As the .avi videos I have look fine in QVM before I put them into an .roq file.
CaptainChar Posted October 5, 2012 Posted October 5, 2012 ive only ever done one ROQ video with reasonable quality, the gun barrel sequence for my Goldeneye mod
therfiles Posted October 5, 2012 Posted October 5, 2012 There was another way...not sure how to do it right...but I remember there being a file called 'roq.exe' which would make a roq out of hundreds of TGAs. I remember the quality of it being much, much better.
minilogoguy18 Posted October 6, 2012 Posted October 6, 2012 If I remember right Inyri knew how to use the tools released with the SDK's to generate a proper .roq file, may want to ask her about it, it's been a while though.
CaptainChar Posted October 6, 2012 Posted October 6, 2012 the ROQ video maker should support images as the source or an AVI, at least the program i used was like that
Dusty Posted October 6, 2012 Author Posted October 6, 2012 QVM supports everything I'm using, just the video quality becomes terrible in the finish .roq file. I guess I'm just going to try a different codec and see if I get better results.
therfiles Posted October 6, 2012 Posted October 6, 2012 Googled and found this: http://wiki.modsrepository.com/index.php/Call_of_Duty_2:_Create_.roq_intro_videos May be helpful.
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