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    Default How to Capture Scenes After the End of the Timeline in the Cinematic Editor

    Here's how this common problem looks like:
    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 


    The most common issue is that the timeline ends when the soldiers start cheering at the end of the battle. Well, it's still possible to capture them if you follow my instructions.




    1.
    Making the camera move
    Make a camera move, preferably static, positioned exactly where the scene that you want to capture is. But since it is after the end of the timeline, you have to do it somewhere inside the timeline, meaning that it will capture the exact position of the inaccessible scene you want, except that it will be earlier in the timeline. Apply render cordons and do everything as if it's a regular camera and save it.


    2.
    Writing down the time of the obscured scene
    Now keep playing the replay until you get to the scene outside the timeline that you want to capture (e.g. cheering soldiers). Stop the replay at the point where you want the camera to start filming and look at the time in the upper left corner.
    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 


    Those are minutes, seconds and milliseconds. Now convert them all to seconds. In my screenshot it is 16 minutes and 28 seconds. 16*60+28=988
    Write down this number. Then resume playing the replay until you reach the end of your desired scene and pause the replay. Again look at the time and convert it to seconds and write this number down as well. Close the editor.


    3.
    Editing the .cam file and rendering the scene
    Open up camera folder and find the camera you saved previously. Open it with Notepad. This is how it should look like:
    Code:
    <CameraTrack>
        <Version>3</Version>
        <TimeRange>256.26193 266.44455</TimeRange>
        <Time>994.50006</Time>
        <Range>0.25767916 0.26791808</Range>
        <Pos>
            <X>
                <Segments>3</Segments>
                <Points>
                    <Pt>0.0 0.69999999</Pt>
                    <Pt>8.5893057e-002 0.69999999</Pt>
                    <Pt>0.17178611 0.69999999</Pt>
                    <Pt>0.25767916 0.69999999</Pt>
                    <Pt>0.26109213 0.69999999</Pt>
                    <Pt>0.26450509 0.69999999</Pt>
                    <Pt>0.26791808 0.69999999</Pt>
                    <Pt>0.51194543 0.69999999</Pt>
                    <Pt>0.75597268 0.69999999</Pt>
                    <Pt>1.0 0.69999999</Pt>
                </Points>
                <InTypes>
                    <Count>4</Count>
                    <Type>0</Type>
                    <Type>0</Type>
                    <Type>0</Type>
                    <Type>0</Type>
                </InTypes>
                <OutTypes>
                    <Count>4</Count>
                    <Type>0</Type>
                    <Type>0</Type>
                    <Type>0</Type>
                    <Type>0</Type>
                </OutTypes>
            </X>
            <Y>
    The two numbers in red are the only things that you need to touch. I think you're guessing what's next. Change the first number to the first number that you wrote down. And the second one, accordingly, to the second one that you wrote down.

    Now render the camera and it will capture the scene that was outside the timeline. If, and it does happen, the scene starts too early or too late, you can modify the .cam file again, just remember that those two numbers are seconds. The first one indicates the beginning of the camera and the second one - the end.


    I hope you managed to get something out of this.
    Last edited by Neige; January 27, 2011 at 05:49 AM.

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    Default Re: How to Capture Scenes After the End of the Timeline in the Cinematic Editor

    +rep, I never thought I could edit the .cam

    Edit: just to make sure, the calculated 988 should be instead of 256, and whatever is the end instead of the 266?
    Last edited by John Doe; January 30, 2011 at 07:45 PM.

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    Default Re: How to Capture Scenes After the End of the Timeline in the Cinematic Editor

    Yes, exactly.

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