M2TW Cinematic Editor Video Tutorials, Info and Fan Videos!

[wrren400]

Never heard of that problem before. What Windows do you use? Are you sure that you mean "cine-ed_edit" instead of "cin-ed_edit"?

Sorry but im not that knoledgeble about computers yes i mean "cine-ed" instead of "cin_ed". I don't know if it is my windows type or not but i think it is "Microsoft Windows Xp Mediea Center Edition 2005" If it is not please reply quickly

[D|major]

Sorry but im not that knoledgeble about computers yes i mean "cine-ed" instead of "cin_ed". I don't know if it is my windows type or not but i think it is "Microsoft Windows Xp Mediea Center Edition 2005" If it is not please reply quickly

Hmm I didn't completely understand your problem yet... Can you explain a bit more detailed what you did and what happened then?

[Gouldey]

I want to start making movies of m2tw with the cinematic editor

i know pretty much nothing bout computers

i need a complete idiots gude on how to set up the cinematic editor

any help would be much appreciated

cheers

[Andy B]

Did you follow the tutorial start about mods etc?
Are you using a mod / Is it looking for it or the replay in the right place?
I know it prob sounds like nub questions but thats what a few people
I know have had to edit to get it working.

[D|major]

Update to all those who use my CineEd files or who watched my turorial video:

I've found out the cause of a CineEd bug. If you follow my tutorial you will notice that the CineEd does always render just the upper left part of the cam, not the entire cam. The reason is, that the CineEd does not support window sizes below of 1024x768 pixel. Therefore the render.bat will run at 1024x768 pixel put does save 720x480 pixel as video only. To avoid this, you will have to change the resolution to 1024x768 in the render.cfg of your CineEd.

Notice: The rendered files will be approximately twice as big: 12sec = 1GB

[beho]

Hi Daniel,

Nice video tutorial, if someone wants to render in slowmotion you should change the entry "avi = true" to "avi = false". Be sure of having changed the line fps = 30 to e.g. 60 or more. You will get a lot of tga files instead of an avi file after having it implemented. You have to convert the tga files to avi now. The best way to do so is using virtual dub.
Hope it works fine.

Regards,

André

[D|major]

Thank you much Andre! I'll add this to the "tips"!

[Man of West Gondor]

Hi, I took your the tutorial when I use the cine-ed_render it gets to the loading part but then it closes itself. Why is it doing so?

[beho]

Hi Man of West Gondor,

Are you sure that the replay folder, which you have to edit in the cine-ed_render is right?

André

[D|major]

yes, so far its right, as long as you have saved your cameras as all.cameraGroupXml

[DisgruntledGoat]

Very helpful. I got things work except for a few minor details. I have it set create screenshots but the renderer creates 60 tga files of the single still. And secondly the render doesn't seem to render the special effects such as bloom, grass, normal maps and gloss even though all of those are there in the options. Any ideas.

[D|major]

Oh yes, the number of tga files depends on how big the space is between the start and end cordons. Make it smaller and the result will be fewer files.

As far as I know if you render as tga files instead of avi it does not render grass. I don't know about the other special effects though...

[DisgruntledGoat]

Played with the video settings and have yet to get the bloom, reflections and normal maps to appear in either the editor or the renderer.

EDIT: I have discovered the problem. It could be because I am doing this with a mod or maybe not. When ever I run the editor or renderer it generates a new medieval preferences cfg file and it is from that file that the video settings are acquired NOT from the render or editor cfg file I have set up.

ANd now that I thought I had figured it out the game has decided to but the texture quality permanently at LOW even though I have it set at highest in all three cfg files. This is possibly the most frustrating tool I have ever used.

[D|major]

DisgruntledGoat I had the problem with the low texture quality all the time since Broken Crescent is released. Last week i figured out how to solve.

The best way is to use this video settings i guess in your render.cfg:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[video]

anisotropic_level = 16

anti_alias_mode = normal

antialiasing = 8

battle_32_bit = 1

battle_resolution = 1024 768

bloom = 1

building_detail = high

campaign_32_bit = 1

campaign_resolution = 1024 768

depth_shadows = 2

depth_shadows_resolution = 2

desync_animations = 1

detailed_unit_shadows = 1

effect_quality = highest

gamma = 100

glints = 1

gloss_mapping = 1

grass_distance = 900

movies = 0

no_background_fmv = 1

reflection = 1

reflections = 1

show_banners = 1

subtitles = 0

terrain_quality = high

texture_filtering = 2

tga_aspect = 1.5

tga_input_scale = 1

tga_reserve_space = 0

tga_width =

triple_buffer = 1

ui_32_bit = 0

unit_detail = higher

unit_shaders = 1

vegetation = 1

vegetation_quality = high

vsync = 1

water_buffers_per_node = 8

widescreen = 0

windowed = 1

[DisgruntledGoat]

Got everything work and also discovered a way to get all the effects you need, as well as GRASS into screenshots with the editor. Do everything like normal. When you have your position set, bring the start and end cordons to make the range as small as possible. We are talking less than 1 sec, or even better less than half a second. Then render to avi. This is key, rendering to avi adds all the engine post-processing effects. Now open your AVI in Adobe ImageReady. BAM save and you have a perfect screenshot.

[Snipking]

hey i just wanted to say that the tutorial is awesome..
just had a question about the render..after i render my video and open my capture_tga folder all the video clips are completly black except for the outline of the game window in the upper right hand corner. i reset my resolutions and still now luck.

any suggestions?

[Nevada]

i just wanted to do a movie, but the cined crashes at three quarters of the loading bar.
i did the replay with retrofitmod and copied it in the mainfolder's replays, as the bat only works with medieval2.exe.

should i try it with the kingdoms.exe?

btw: for some reason, i can't view page 1 of the thread.

edit: fixed that issue through copiing my video settings in the .bat
but I got another one:
what is the "insert" key and , when i set the x,y,z things on position and focus, those blue lines from the video don't appear in the cined window.
any ideas?

edit2: ok, I fixed that, too.

edit3:
I had a render problem that i can probably only fix with the virtual dub thing, but how can I do the .tga's in a .avi file?

[NeoRicen]

Hey, great tutorial, but I'm having an issue.

If I have a camera move with 3 keyframes they don't move very smoothly at all, it will slow down as it approaches the 2nd key frame, and then speed up again very suddenly and slowing down before approaching the 3rd keyframe.

I want the camera to ease in and out, but I want the speed to remain constant as it passes the 2nd keyframe. The RTW movie editor did this automatically.

I've tried all kinds of combinations of those curve buttons but none of them do what I want. The easing problem even happens when I make all the curves straight.

[D|major]

edit3:
I had a render problem that i can probably only fix with the virtual dub thing, but how can I do the .tga's in a .avi file?

just drag and drop them into virtual dub or render the scenes with the render.bat as avi

Hey, great tutorial, but I'm having an issue.

If I have a camera move with 3 keyframes they don't move very smoothly at all, it will slow down as it approaches the 2nd key frame, and then speed up again very suddenly and slowing down before approaching the 3rd keyframe.

I want the camera to ease in and out, but I want the speed to remain constant as it passes the 2nd keyframe. The RTW movie editor did this automatically.

I've tried all kinds of combinations of those curve buttons but none of them do what I want. The easing problem even happens when I make all the curves straight.

The smoothness of easing depends on the relation of the three keyframes to each other, the angle and the time distance between them. For instance, if the first keyframe is about 50 metres away from the second, and the third keyframe goes 5 metres back into the direction of the first keyframe, the camera will move a lot behind of the second keyframe, before it moves back to the third... hard to explain, just try a little more

[Nevada]

ok, thanks, I did so.

now i have the problem that audacity won't record the sound....