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piolet_rampe

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Record Multi-Track Playback to video file?
« on: August 31, 2010, 11:24:51 PM »
This feature is very cool.  Has anyone found a method to record multi track playback from TF to some kind of video file?  I would like to share this and a simple video file would be the best way of doing so.  Thanks.

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Re: Record Multi-Track Playback to video file?
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2010, 08:14:20 AM »
I use a free program called "CamStudio" to do a screen capture of a portion of the TF window (or the whole TF window).  It works quite well.  I believe I settled on using the divx codec -- good balance of file size and quality.

Here are a few multi-playback videos:

http://vimeo.com/user3127499
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Re: Record Multi-Track Playback to video file?
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2010, 10:54:30 PM »
Thanks, I will try that.  Also, in this mode, is there a way to skip through time on the play back?  For instance, an overnight camp stop will just sit and hover for a long time.  what I really am after is to just move through the times where we were moving.

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Re: Record Multi-Track Playback to video file?
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2010, 09:06:50 AM »
Only way right now is to crank up the speed temporarily, but you gotta be fast to crank it back down.

I plan to make a "skip stopped time" mode, perhaps with a threshold, so you can skip any stop longer than a half hour or so.
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