Fourth Age: Video Maker Required

**Crian** · 05-10-2007, 10:43

I'd love to give this a shot as I have a lot of experience with video editing but little with the RTW movie cam, hopefully I could assemble something in a couple of weeks after extensively studying the movie cam.

This "signature piece" you mentioned, it means music right? Sort of like a "main theme" of FATW? Plus is the new music you mentioned in your post in the mod already? To get access to it, just download the mod right?

**Dol Guldur** · 05-10-2007, 11:07

Crian,

Thank you for your interest.

We would indeed welcome your samples for review.

We have been blessed with some fine music by some very generous musicians (and recently have acquired permission to use the album of another which will be featured on 2.0).

The signature piece itself is not in the mod as that particular piece we have only secured the rights to distribute it in non mp3 format. As music files cannot be packed in a BI mod we can only use this piece in video.

If you wish to access some of our current music you must indeed download the mod - or more specifically the music pack. But, of course, it will be hard to take shots of the game without installing that too ;)

The latest build and current (critical) patch, as well as the music pack, can be found by following the link in my sig (go to the forums).

Thx again for your interest and we look forward to seeing your work.

D.G.

**Crian** · 05-10-2007, 11:47

Aaah I see, so you'll only release the "signature piece" to the movie maker who receives your stamp of approval.

Alright I see, off to work for me then.

**Arakorn-eir** · 05-10-2007, 20:48

Or then I will edit it in after you've assembled the footage (amongst other tracks too), if you wish so.

**Crian** · 05-11-2007, 08:14

I'm roaring to go but I'm currently on vacation at my family's hometown, and I unfortunately didn't bring my RTW and BI installers with me

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Darn, I won't be getting back until next week so it'll take a while. By the way I'm planning on using Adobe Premiere because I've had extensive experience with it then compress the output using Media Encoder. I'll record a bunch of battles and get as many shots as I can, taking into account the cinematic style used in movies and the Total War videos themselves

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Can't wait to get my hands working on this... if I only knew M2TW would be so boooring.

**Crian** · 05-19-2007, 06:31

Alright... I finally got my hands on RTW:BI again and I got the mod up and running. I spent a few hours last night messing around with the movie cam. I played a battle, saved the replay, then followed the movie cam instructions to the letter.

I thought I'd render some shots first so I could check if there would be compatibility problems with Premiere... but unfortunately the command line "-movie_cam:capture_video" doesn't seem to work for me.

Everything was set... the replay was good, the camera path was set.... I did it several times but the game just won't render!! I even tried it in Vanilla RTW and I get the exact same result (or lack thereof)

Here are the exact words in the target line of the shrotcut I made =("C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW-BI.exe" -show_err -nm -mod:bi\ci -movie_cam:capture_video) minus the parentheses. I followed the instructions to the letter but it won't render!

I load my replay with this shortcut, press L to load my camera path, then R to render as it said in the instructions. The battle reloads, but no rendering happens! No error, no crash to desktop, no alerts, nothing... it just reloads like normal as if the "capture_video" in the command line isn't there.

No capture_tga folder.... nothing. I actually wished I've gotten an error or CTD instead of something like this where I'm completely clueless as to where the problen is.

I really, really want to do this and with time I'm sure I can. This problem is really frustrating, can you help? I made the battle with FE 1.9, I uploaded the camera path and the battle replay for it at http://hosted.filefront.com/crian/. Could someone try to render it? There's another video there but it's not related so just ignore it. Please help I really want to do this...

**Crian** · 05-19-2007, 07:33

I've been browsing at TWCenter about the problem and apprently there are also other people who seem to have the exact same problem I have with the RTW movie cam. I have 1.5 RTW and BI 1.6 of course (otherwise FE won't work) and there are people over there are saying that they can't render if the game is patched.

They were saying something about preferences.txt? Maybe it doesn't work with my settings (1024, 1.33, 1)? Anyone here who can render successfully? What TGA settings in preferences.txt should I put in order for it to work?