Thanis Rod
From where I am coming from, I have thought it would be a great idea if I could video some of my trainz sessions then edit out all the mistakes and make a kind of movie out of the best of it and be able to sit down and watch the fully titled movie and relax... one good thing about that is that even though you have put a fair bit of work and time into the editing, you can watch the movie without getting crashes and error messaages come up on your widescreen TV, and the real beauty of it is too that you don't get Unable to register trainz URL registry key or Trainz cannot find your profile or you don't have a valid serial number... when watching your finished movie product and it is relaxing too...
After having all the trouble in the world with TRS 06, and Vista and getting those two very frustrating error meessages keep coming up, I ditched 06, and have ordered TRS 09... I haven't got it yet, but hope that when I do get it in a week or so's time I don't get the same problems with it that a lot of people here are having...
its all a matter of trial and error but we do get better at doing it
To back myself up a bit, I also ordered TC3, and the SP1 for TRS 2009.
These two very annoying problems are really something that Auran are really going to have to sit down and have a good look at and eliminate, because a lot of us are getting these two main error messages or other unwanted events come up...
My copy of TRS 2006 was running perfect for about two weeks after I installed it, and Then!... little problems started creeping in, I began to find that my 2100's and other paintshed items were not available in Surveyor, and then all of my own reskins and changed locomotives began to become unavailable... I thought...Well! Time I got and registered this, and the whole thing mainlly in the CMP just began to 'shut up' on me to a point where I could only use inbult content, even after I had registered my serial number in Planet Auran...
I posted on the forum and felt that I wasn't getting anywhere, so eventually after reaching a dead end stage, I took TRS 06 off, found a convenient box to put it in, ditched it, and went on to order TRS 09...in the hope that imight be one of the lucky ones this time to not have any problems at all, and then maybe I can get on and do some more Trainz movies like I have been doing, though I must point out to you that all of the work I have been editing were done and played with back in 2007, and that I had about 10 DVD disks in a box that I had been trying to get around to editing and turning into some kind of movie...like the one I did back in 2006.
Adobe Premiere has got a lot of interesting effects and titling options, but in saying that, it does tend to leave very little memory headroom for actual working energy, in that it being crammed with features, all of your working memory is taken up by features... so when you are relying on getting a nice smooth motion, things come out rather jerky, jumpy, heistant, and you are left feeling that you have wasted your time using it...and you realize that perhaps you should try another program, and this was where I went to Ulead DVD Factory (for Toshiba) the OEM thing you get when you buy a Toshiba laptop...
My latest experience however revealed that when I had taken my exports from Ulead back into Premiere, and reindered it down a couple of times to try and eliminate the jerkiness, and having done so with moderate success, the second half of the movie had no sound...
Therefore I think it is very important to minimise the number of times you render your movie, because the more times you try to render your movie to smoothen it, the quieter the soundtrack becomes until you find you have not soundtrack volume at all...
I did find that Ulead, even though it is simpler, tended to be rather fiddly, and I ended up losing my work, because while you are doing your 'multi-trim in Ulead, you can't save your stages so that if your computer locked up you could go back and resume from where you were before, You can't save your work until you get to burn your movie on to DVD or make what Ulead call a disk image...
I ended up having to go back to start and do my multi trim again, this time with different trainz, then when I had exported my movie clips to use them in Premiere, I did at least have the saved exports... this is where I thoiught I could get away with rendering it, bringing the 'untitled' back into the oranizer in APE, takng the rendered movie back down to the time line, re rendering that to eliminate a bit more of the jerkiness. the first half was OK, but when I took the DVD to play it in my DVD recorder to my TV...Uh!... Oh Dear! Er!... What happened?... where's the sound?... No sound!...
The advantage of APE is that it allows you to render and save your movie to a playable file on your hard drive, or to burn to disk later, and it is here that you can choose PAL/NTSC dolby widescreen, that does give you pretty close to a widescreen result...but you do still get a little border around it...
You live and you learn...
Often though we find that we need to use two software programs to get the right result, because while one program is good at being simple and doesn't use so many resources to kill your RAM memory cache reserve, the other more complex program has the features you like using and you feel more comfortable using the second one... but in doing that, you often find that a. your finished result may end up being a reduced size 4:3 if you don't get it right or b. your soundtrack comes out very quiet...
Idealy, it would be very nice to be able to do it all using one software program that is going to iron out all of your jerks and juddering, and give you the latitude to really do a professional looking production too... there is no perfect all in one software program that does it all, and one still feels the need to use two software programs...
I think I will probably leave this one as it is now and waint until I get TRS 09 and do some more and learn from what I have just experienced
Once you have an edited DVD of your Trainz show...how do you share a DVD on the web, how would you link it ? YouTube???
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