Driver Madness

Through blood sweat & tears I have created my first near feature length movie. Through creative editing I used the existing cutscenes in the game along with my existing mission videos of which I had to re-shoot some of them.

To download it you will need a decent broadband connection (sorry dial up users). The details of video are below:-

Length = 1 hour 9 minutes
Format = AVI
Viewing Size = 320x240
File Size = 309MB
Web Link = http://www.box.net/public/izrmodvz1y

Enjoy..............

That sounds great! Must of taken you ages!...

But first I'll have to watch it, I'll download it now, luckily this is the time AOL don't limit your connection to around 50kbps meaning they're nearly stealing your money! I wish I could switch to BE (the same one you use) but our lines do not support 24MB internet, only around 2MB!

Nice to know you found the time to do what I never got the time to do.
When I get access to a broadband connection I'll make it first priority on my list to download.

And You know I never get the time to do much probley because I'm spending to much time working on Driver Modding and DPL-List, i'm going to ask for people assistance soon for those websites and then I'll spend some more time on this website here and making more videos and the good thing now is that I'm not going to have to reply on a DVD Recorder and my XBOX to play DRIV3R, I'll be able to use FRAPS to record it my self since I'm getting a new PC Upgrade and I just might get the time to make a small movie like this myself.

i downloaded it , is it supposed to be all sound?

It looks like your missing a codec.
Try downloading and installing a codec pack or you can also choose a small application which plays all sorts of files.

So you can decided weather you download the codec or an entire new media player, so here are some links:

-All in one codec pack
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Cod ... l_in_1.htm
-VLC Media Player 0.8.6
http://www.download.com/VLC-Media-Playe ... ag=lst-0-1

I should of mentioned in the original post you will may need the following codecs if you don't already have them on your PC. You can download them from:-

DivX Codec 5.2.1 - http://www.box.net/public/ka69lh6gpn
Xvid Codec 1.1.0 - http://www.box.net/public/24je747rv9

They are both less then 1MB is size are are easy to install.

Is it a long movie it sounds great! How do you get a cd from your camera to be able to play on the computer I can't get it on mine.

havent down loaded yet...but will wen i get tha chance

driver2fan10,
I didn't use a camera. Instead I used a piece of software called Fraps. This software allows you to record gameplay in any game directly to your PC while you are playing the game.

Beacuse Fraps saves the video image in AVI format it doesn't have time to compress it while you are playing the game so I used another piece of software called WinAVI Converter to compress the file to a more managable size. I then used a mixture of Windows Movie Maker & Nero Vision to make the finished movie.

Oh cool well i'm trying to download it right now, but it is taking along time I hope it works. Thx

I saw it and I thought that it was cool how you mixed the stories togather

I just watched the video and I must say, well done! You pull some cool car stunts and it's nice to see all the Miami FMV's and missions edited into one total package.

driver2fan10 wrote:I saw it and I thought that it was cool how you mixed the stories togather

He said he used Windows Movie Maker...
I'm not sure which version of Windows Movie Maker however Windows Movie Maker is usually installed on every XP computer and with service pack 2 installed you get the latest XP release 2.1.

If you wish to get the latest version which I think is 6.5 you can get it on Windows Vista however there really isn't all that much difference between 2.1 and 6.5.

Ya I would ,but my computer is too crapy and slow to add or download anything on to it. * * ()

Yeh, well Windows Movie Maker 2.1 upgrade is no bigger than 20MB if you download and install it via. Windows Update.

Did you say tears or years ?

Right on, man! That was really cool. I like to see a good flick, especially one made from a video game. I have to say, thanks. Where are the movies made from video games awarded? There’s an entry. Really, though. I am thinking about one time when I went to the ballet with my old man. I’m thinking maybe he actually was that thrilled, rather than merely fulfilling some deep seeded wish to yell bravo at something without being sarcastic. I was watching your movie with this huge grin on my face, which is about as close as I come to yelling bravo.

That’s not choppy at all. How much CPU power and memory do you have on your rig, then? It seems like I got a pretty choppy picture when I tried to do some recording with FRAPS one time, but I don’t recall what games those were or what kind of system resources the games themselves were hogging. How much space do you reckon your raw FRAPS footage took up, then?

I guess it varies geographically or whatever, what’s considered typical where Internet speed is concerned. Your flick took about 9min to download to my rig in the middle of the night here, which I guess makes a difference using cable in a small town that actually sleeps at night. Isn’t cable basically a LAN, the speed of which varies with the number of users online or something? I don’t know. Anyway, I also don’t know, but that seems like a pretty good download speed for a free storage service. Is yours a free account or upgraded to some premium service that box.net provides, man?

This is definitely the stuff when it comes to replays. I mean racing games have included replays for a long time, of course, but seeing dudes on foot in gunfights is what I was looking for since I started jamming vid. I think the replay feature in the IL-2 games, with those excellent camera functions, makes those games rule. I like WWII, so it’s obvious why I feel that way, but I wish I could see a game that works like DRIV3R set in WWII. The only thing I’ve seen with replays that offers WWII ground action comes from using the War of Infamy WWII mods for Ghost Recon, GR:Desert Siege, and GR:Island Thunder. Those offer a very limited amount of camera control during the replays.

Thanks for sharing some of the details about your production technique, BTW. Cool flick, to be sure.

FRAPS does take up a lot of space and 1 minute of video is probably about 1 gig however it depends on the resolution it's recording.

I always used to use FRAPS on my old PC which used to perform at about 25fps with DRIV3R on low quality and when I started recording with fraps with an even lower quality of resolution it dropped down to about 15fps and sometimes all the way down to 5fps. Due to this slow frame rate I gave up creating videos with the PC version so I got out and purchased the xbox version to do this and I still haven't gotten to converting the dvd I created with the dvd recorder to avi. However on the XBOX version I have created over 500 replays and I've recorded 400 of them onto a total of 14dvds in HD Quality, however I'm only using A/V standards.

I also wished that other games had the tool that driver had, having an entire Film Director... Basically that is the only game I've ever seen this in. However I think there was something similar in track mania.

However you may have herd of my new PC upgrade which enables me to play DRIV3R really well, I'm yet to try fraps however I beleave it'll run really well on full quality modes.

Just in case you wish to see my new specs you may see them below:

CPU: Intel 3Ghz HT
GPU: NVidia Geforce 7600GT, DDRIII, 256MB
RAM: 512MB PC433
HDD: WD 400gig SATA2
WD 250gig SATA
WD 120gig PATA (might be selling off soon, slows down my SATA's)
ROM: DVD-RW 16x
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8I945GMF

Upgrading soon to:
1gig RAM - Dual Mode
3Ghz - Dual Core (possibility)
additional WD 400gig SATA2 HDD (Dec 07)

So that totals to about 650gig HDD and with another upgrade about 1050gig, which is about 1.05TB. The main reason is that I have so much space is so I can record lots of stuff with fraps without any problems, however I should really learn to compress videos once I'm finished with them.

Also I have been thinking about a competition where one person creates a film director video and then someone else has to create a better one and it goes on like that forever as well as one for the best stunt,

Just convert the file, a 200-300 MB video can be converted and take only 7-10 MB with still good graphic.

A friend of mine and me worked on this one, we recorded some 2 min videos from Halo and we hosted them, ill give some link if you want to see it's possible

I would convert the video if it wasn't time consuming and of course there is a little quality loss in most forms of decompression. However RAW format is quickly written and there is probley another format which is compressing it without full on compression, which should be able to convert that 200-300MB video into a 50MB video.

I used to just open up Windows Movie Maker to compress them, and that was the time consuming part. So I think I'll have to find a conversion program where I can select multiple videos and convert them all at once so I can go to sleep and leave my computer to compress the videos.

madness wrote: Just in case you wish to see my new specs you may see them below:

CPU: Intel 3Ghz HT
GPU: NVidia Geforce 7600GT, DDRIII, 256MB
RAM: 512MB PC433
HDD: WD 400gig SATA2
WD 250gig SATA
WD 120gig PATA (might be selling off soon, slows down my SATA's)
ROM: DVD-RW 16x
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8I945GMF

Upgrading soon to:
1gig RAM - Dual Mode
3Ghz - Dual Core (possibility)
additional WD 400gig SATA2 HDD (Dec 07)

So that totals to about 650gig HDD and with another upgrade about 1050gig, which is about 1.05TB. The main reason is that I have so much space is so I can record lots of stuff with fraps without any problems, however I should really learn to compress videos once I'm finished with them.

Also I have been thinking about a competition where one person creates a film director video and then someone else has to create a better one and it goes on like that forever as well as one for the best stunt,

Yah, your specs topics and other technical-side discussions do interest me, including this stuff here about making vids. I was also into reading that thing about the facts related to creating DRIV3R that you posted last April or whenever.

Speaking of stunts, I looked at a short download you posted somewhere in here that showed you doing a barrel roll or whatever it might be called. Was that on purpose, then? Either way, it looked cool.

I'm making a Driver Movie! It is going to be long as a movie that are in theaters. I don't really know how to make movies in film director, but when I figure it out i'm going to make a cool movie. About Tanner in Driver and add secens from other Driver's like Driver 2 and put them to make a cool Driver Movie! It's going to have alot of car chases.

Cool. Good luck.

Just messing with you, man. I read what you wrote to Sedans the other day about the trouble you were having with duplicated posts. No offense intended.

Miller wrote:

madness wrote: Just in case you wish to see my new specs you may see them below:

CPU: Intel 3Ghz HT
GPU: NVidia Geforce 7600GT, DDRIII, 256MB
RAM: 512MB PC433
HDD: WD 400gig SATA2
WD 250gig SATA
WD 120gig PATA (might be selling off soon, slows down my SATA's)
ROM: DVD-RW 16x
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8I945GMF

Upgrading soon to:
1gig RAM - Dual Mode
3Ghz - Dual Core (possibility)
additional WD 400gig SATA2 HDD (Dec 07)

So that totals to about 650gig HDD and with another upgrade about 1050gig, which is about 1.05TB. The main reason is that I have so much space is so I can record lots of stuff with fraps without any problems, however I should really learn to compress videos once I'm finished with them.

Also I have been thinking about a competition where one person creates a film director video and then someone else has to create a better one and it goes on like that forever as well as one for the best stunt,

Yah, your specs topics and other technical-side discussions do interest me, including this stuff here about making vids. I was also into reading that thing about the facts related to creating DRIV3R that you posted last April or whenever.

Speaking of stunts, I looked at a short download you posted somewhere in here that showed you doing a barrel roll or whatever it might be called. Was that on purpose, then? Either way, it looked cool.

That stunt I performed was in fact a very large mod I created for DRIV3R where the I was able to drive Miami's taxi in Nice, and while doing that I was able to perform a pretty neat stunt.

driver2fan10 wrote:I'm making a Driver Movie! It is going to be long as a movie that are in theaters. I don't really know how to make movies in film director, but when I figure it out i'm going to make a cool movie. About Tanner in Driver and add secens from other Driver's like Driver 2 and put them to make a cool Driver Movie! It's going to have alot of car chases.

I can't wait tell me once your finished

Miller wrote:Cool. Good luck.

Just messing with you, man. I read what you wrote to Sedans the other day about the trouble you were having with duplicated posts. No offense intended.

I instantly thought that was a double post and almost deleted it .

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I started recording in fraps and noticed there was no sound, I'm currently am trying to fix the sound problem.

I also started to record and recording performance seemed better on my older computer and the performance issue is on on DRIV3R .

I'll also try to find a fix for that to.

Who's going to take up the gaunlet and produce episodes for Nice & Istanbul, similar to what I have done with Miami? I would like to but me time is going to bit tight for the next few weeks.

Yah me too I just had a holiday last week so i was off from school, but i got alot of work to do know that school started again.

babbs wrote:Who's going to take up the gaunlet and produce episodes for Nice & Istanbul, similar to what I have done with Miami? I would like to but me time is going to bit tight for the next few weeks.

I haven't been able to download your movie yet, however I hope to soon. I'd continue the series once I find a fix to my sound recording issue and once I find a reason why the game lags so much when I'm recording, even if everything is set on low it seems to lag a lot.

I also started to do this sort of thing with Miami a while ago and I recorded it on my DVD recorder so I may as well do Miami as well as the rest