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Releases / Re: [BETA RELEASE] Higher Resolution FFVIIPC [v1.00] - Part II

« on: 2006-10-28 23:42:43 »

Well, this worked fine on my old monitor. Refuses to work with my new LCD. Native resolution is 1440x900, and it refuses to switch into anything above that in either dimension. Anything smaller gets scaled up though, so another "black bars" mod would work. Pretty much any widescreen monitor would need the same change, since only the really high end ones are anything above 900 tall.

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Archive / ff7 movie enhancement?

« on: 2005-09-02 01:35:01 »

the 32bit patch makes a big black bar in the vids for me. Also, just looking at the vids in winmediaplayer, the PSX ones are a lot better looking. Then again, if you dont want to go through all the work, the PC ones are acceptable...

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Archive / ff7 movie enhancement?

« on: 2005-08-24 00:14:44 »

Search this site for the method to accessing the movies from the hard disk. After that, use PSX video rips in place of the original movies.

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Archive / ff7 movie enhancement?

« on: 2005-08-23 10:08:35 »

Yep, just alter the registry value for the Movie Path and put the new movies in whatever directory you specified. Make sure theyre the right filenames.

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Archive / ff7 movie enhancement?

« on: 2005-08-19 20:03:27 »

I think the main ones would be the intro and possibly the ending. Just to be safe, Ive been doing every single vid. Im gonna go through them again though and use the PSX audio for the ones without music, since I listened again and there is a slight increase in audio quality.

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Archive / ff7 movie enhancement?

« on: 2005-08-19 10:06:43 »

The sound works, its just the music that the PSX vids leave out because its being played in the background. The PC version has music as part of the videos.

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Archive / ff7 movie enhancement?

« on: 2005-08-18 20:06:47 »

I have an idea. If we distribute the movies, password the zip file with an ENTIRE text doccument from the install disk. Or maybe someone could write a program to check for the cd?

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Archive / ff7 movie enhancement?

« on: 2005-08-18 11:18:04 »

I didnt notice much of a difference in audio, except for the silent parts where the PSX synth was supposed to be playing music. I had to put the PC version audio in to have any music in those parts. I wasnt sure which parts had music though so I just did it to all of them. Theres several seconds of stillness at the end of the PSX videos so this cut them to the proper length to play ingame.

I would be glad to upload the files if someone were to give me the storage. I *could* host the files myself, but I share bandwidth with my parrents and they complain that their wireless connection goes out a lot. If someone could download them from me at night and host them...

So far, Disk 1 is complete and compressed. (I noticed NO loss of quality between Uncompressed and Indeo 5.10) If you all want me to upload everything, I can have it all done sometime tomorrow evening. Let me know if you can host these files and I will talk to you later this evening. I have school and crap so my time to rip is limited.

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Archive / ff7 movie enhancement?

« on: 2005-08-17 22:53:42 »

Your all wrong! ^_^

Theres several seconds of still frame at the end of the psx videos. After adding the PC audio to all of them, they work fine in game, syncing BETTER than the PC videos. If you dont believe me, rip the intro vid and replace the audio with that of the original PC intro. Watch the guards as the view pans in. They actually sync with the video.

After realizing how big the files were, I decided to compress with the Indeo 5.10 codec. They look great, AND ARE SMALLER THAN THE ORIGINAL VIDEOS! All files for disk 1 ended up over 50MB SMALLER than the PC videos (280mb vs 340mb).

As for quality, there is a DEFINITE INCREASE! The cloudy noise that looked like soap over the entire video is almost gone, with only minimal pixellation when ingame.

My videos went from unbearably bad quality to looking pretty darn good. Heres a list of the steps I did for those that want an easy little guide to get them working.

1. Rip all the videos from the PSX disks  as "Uncompressed" or whatever the All Frames option is

2. In VirtualDub, open each movie from the PC version individually and "Save Wav" for each one

3. Open each video you just ripped from PSX in VirtualDub and click the Audio menu at the top. Select "Wav Audio" and select the appropriate file ripped from the PC videos.

4. Click the Compression option under Video and select Indeo 5.10 (or whatever codec you want, though this is what I used and got low filesizes and great quality ingame).

5. Save the file with the proper filename.

6. Repeat for each video file (took me several hours and im only done with disk 1.

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Archive / ff7 movie enhancement?

« on: 2005-08-16 21:18:27 »

Alright, Im doing them all uncompressed and they look pretty nice ingame. Still a bit fuzzy, but i doubt theres a way around that. Can someone give me a list of which videos need music added to them? Also, is it a problem if the files are several seconds longer than the PC version files? When I add the audio to the file in virtualdub, it cuts the video after the end of the audio, essentially making them the same length as the PC version vids. Should I just swap the audio on all of them?

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Archive / ff7 movie enhancement?

« on: 2005-08-16 11:05:20 »

Alright, that works. I had tried an OLD version I found and it sucked, but this is good. I can now convert the files to whatever format I want and it looks better than the PC versions vids.

So whats the best codec to use? I want the best quality possible ingame.

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Archive / ff7 movie enhancement?

« on: 2005-08-16 02:00:38 »

Alright, I have spent an entire afternoon and evening trying to get the videos to look decent. For some reason, mine look REALLY BAD ingame. See for yourself:


BAD!!!! I havent the slightest idea what to do. First of all, I wanted to use the PSX videos, but I couldnt find a converter for the .mov files. The STR files were fine, but that only accounted for half of the total.

Next, I tried to re-encode the videos in divx or some better format. Still, no matter what filters I used, they looked like crap. I tried that duck.exe thing, but that didnt help and I couldnt find any new filters or anything from it. Then I tried the FFDirectshow filter thing. I got some cool filters set and they worked in Windows Media Player, but when I went ingame, everything still looked the same.

I really dont know what to do. I got all the other problems fixed (though I would LIKE to be able to use FSAA without garbled text, but i can go without it for now). Can someone help me find something I havent tried?