@hexer
ufff... So after a hilarious and lengthly stuntfuckery, that involved both Interplay and Abel's tools to be used i finally managed to convert the most stubborn of your files..
Both storyhd and intro were succesfully converted into mve format. timemach and vtvid were converted from some time already.
I'm going to tackle the small stuff now CATHEXP, VATEXP, DIPPED, OVRRUN, TANKER and DERRICK, as those were not properly made into mve in 640x480, i actually never made them in that resolution, as i always went for 720p Xvid .AVIs, so i'll have to re-render them first. Anyways it's a small time task. each of those takes like 10 minutes or less to render each, conversion is also non problematic.
if all goes well I'll be uploading all the mve's to my ftp server in the evening.
I'm so glad i managed to tackle this before summer heat break..
If You're inteerested i hearing on the lengthly process of what's needed to be done, in what order, and wich tools to use when, for creation of such untypical mve files. ask me in PM, and i'll go over it..
AS for the title in credits, since you asked, i must say I feel honored.. as for the title just set me up under "Video Post-Processing". this would fit in nice, as I'm not the author of this motion picture, nor have i created the original input files, i only toyed with the format, size, and in certain cases with the video quality, although don't expect miracles :p
EDIT# 15:47 CEST:
Ok I started the uploads. I'll be using manual/passive connection mode solely to upload theese, since otherwise client disconnects from the server too quickly.
most files are few gigs max although the hooverdam video is a hefty ~15GB after converting to .MVE given the damn file size of theese videos, i don't think i'll be doing any HD Upscales for Yesterday, i don't want to clog ppl's drives with just the damn videos.
Although the MVEs were nessecary at least the custom ones..
I was begining to think You haven't added storyhd.mve simply because You had problems converting the original in the first place :p
anyways the files are on their way to the server..
EDIT# 19:11 CEST:
colt 1911
gotta love that hour...
anyways Upload finished, it's now on the server in Fo:Yesterday folder
uploads divided to new_mves and Post-Processed_480p
The post processed 480p are the magic treated .AVIs that served as video input for the .MVEs. not 1:1 though, as some required cutting before conversion and merging after (Abel's tool couldn't handle the length) and about all require soundtrack reprocessing first poke it out to .m4a later convert to a constant bitrate and lowered sample rate .mp3, and finaly to PCM_s16le .wav (all possible in ffmpeg) ( the last format is compatible with abel's tool), the audio tracks weren't merged into the .AVIs as that caused ABel's tool to bug out. instead the .wav files were added to the conversion process via -w parameter in commandline.
the ocasional quality incrase is possible due to setting bitrate to *over 9000* levels.
by default Abel's tool keeps 300kB bitrate, but it's possible to set it to any value in commandline.
in order to calculate correct bitrate one needs to right-click the video and select properties. next switch tab to where clip info is displayed. take note of video bitrate not the total bitrate. open up calculator and input the video bitrate value and add 705 to it (that's the bitrate of the PCM_s16le 22050Hz Stereo format audio which needs to replace the audio from the .avi). after adding divide everything by 8 to convert from kb/s to kB/s,as Abel tool operates in kB/s, the given value needs to be inputed after -rate parameter in the commandline.
oh yeah intro.mve and storyhd.mve will not generate an backwards .avi nor will they generate an exe from mve2exe this is explained below.
Due to the video size ABel's tool generally has problems around ~3400th frame during video's palette's creation, in order to circumvent that i had to cut all videos bigger than 3400 frames to parts. however mve_join.exe does not process videos that are to exceed 4GB, it bug out.
in order to go around the problem i had to use Interplay's MUTIL.EXE under dosbox mounted from a folder on a host drive formated to a file system that natively supports >4GB file size a.k.a exFAT or NTFS.
the command for merging is:
MUTIL.EXE MERGE [out].MVE [in1].MVE [in2].MVE
and all parts need to be processed through that. unfortuneatly abel's mve2avi bugs out, and the MUTIL GETAVI [in].mve [out].avi says that it doesn't work with 16 bit audio *yet*, so it doesn't produce an .avi either. mve2exe bugs out too, so the only preview is ingame unfortuneatly.
for the record intro.mve consisted of 8x 1:51 minute parts, and storyhd.mve consisted of 17x 100 second parts mostly.
so it's a handy thing to have ).
Can’t wait to see them in-game. The difference in quality is incredible, especially with those lower-quality videos. This is amazing, the players will love it!
