Author Topic: FF7 PS3 Tech Demo over opening .avi (Read 6151 times)

corpse · « **on:** 2005-05-19 13:48:43 »

I've manged to convert this to be used in ff7 PC. Thanks Goku7 for the Idea

1. download the movie from http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=5846&type=mov
(Thanks for the link knifes)
2. download wmv version
3. open TMPGEnc and cancel wizard
4. select video source: t_ff7_ps3demo_e35_press.wmv
5. file, output to file, avi.
6. now open up new avi with virtualdub
7. change colur depth to 16bit input and output
8. add resize filter 320*224 (without this ff7 chrashes)
9. replace opening.avi

your set to go, any problems let me know

Goku7 · « **Reply #1 on:** 2005-05-20 04:20:26 »

LOL...the ideas I give people sometimes.....

Pardon me if I'm missing the obvious here, but exactly where in your instructions does the fact that FF7 will only do in-game movie playback for files that are compressed with the Duck Trumotion codec come into play?

And something else just occured to me....isn't there a good 7-10 second shortage between this movie and the original intro movie, which just might be enough to confuse FF7 a bit?

corpse · « **Reply #2 on:** 2005-05-20 08:54:32 »

It does actaully play back any avi compression format, but I've chosen not to compress it. Its about 450 megs. I've used divx and xvid with no problems in the past.

Also as you've pointed out the tech demo is shorter, all that happens is the image freezes on the screen untill the allotted time ends and the game begins.

I have yet to fix this, but all need to do is as 10 secs (or so) of stars to the begining.

corpse

Goku7 · « **Reply #3 on:** 2005-05-20 22:39:36 »

I could have sworn that everybody else here has documented that FF7's movie code could ONLY interface with the duck truemotion codec, causing attempts to cleanup and recompress the movies using DivX or something to be useless.

If what you say is true.....then why haven't the other people here try to take advantage of it for all this time?

Synergy Blades · « **Reply #4 on:** 2005-05-20 22:50:00 »

Actually, he's right, a long while ago I rendered a sequence of my Midgar scene out to an avi and it worked very nicely. It took some time to get the timings perfect but eventually even the little guys on the station lined up perfectly superimposed over my version. It was compressed, too - though DivX doesn't work, there was one I tried that did - however it still had the 'look' of an FF7 movie file, given it was 320w and of lower colour depth, like the existing FF7 ones.

knives · « **Reply #5 on:** 2005-05-21 00:55:34 »

wait so you replaces the original opening witht the tech demo?!

EmperorSteele · « **Reply #6 on:** 2005-05-21 04:37:53 »

Yeah, you don't need DUCk, though duck works better. I've been using uncompressed versions of the videos from the PSX version, and the only drawback thusfar is that the video lags behind the sound.. which totaly sucks, so i'm looking into various compression techniques.

Qhimm · « **Reply #7 on:** 2005-05-21 10:23:39 »

This topic seems to belong better in Game Tweaking, since it's about tweaking the game and all.

Borde · « **Reply #8 on:** 2005-05-21 17:10:26 »

That's right. I played the game from the begining to the end with the PSX videos compressed with divx 3.11 (that's imprtant, because newer versions didn't work) and it worked great.

Goku7 · « **Reply #9 on:** 2005-05-22 08:13:57 »

Well, then.....I stand corrected.

Carry on with your plans for world domination--er, I mean movie modification. :wicked:

Author Topic: FF7 PS3 Tech Demo over opening .avi (Read 6151 times)

Synergy Blades