Recording issues

[Leonard Rivera]

I’m running Vista 64 on a Phenom X4 2.5Ghz with 4 GBS ram and an ATI HD 3450 PCIe

[Alan Lorence]

Is this with a background image/movie loaded?

Try this: create a new project, 640×480. No emitters, no background image/movie. Click “Save Output”, save as AVI, select any codec you normally use.

Also try:

– WMV
– restarting the computer
– Download “Lagarith” or “Huffyuv” codecs and try those.

Alan.

http://www.wondertouch.com

[Leonard Rivera]

OK your test worked fine.

Yes I had a background image. Here’s my work flow.

I have a huge image in photoshop. I’m using it for a game using gamemaker7. I want to use PI to create flames for torches and stuff. Basically want to take PI’s output (wish it could do animated gifs) – convert to animated gif, import to gamemaker, create sprite from animated gif and use.

So in Photoshop, I’m cropping out just the small pieces I need. I bring those in to PI as backgrounds, setup the animation and attempt to render.

I think the issue is the non-standard pixel x pixel sizes and aspect reations of the cropped images I am using. I know many vieo codecs will not support it. I was hoping I cound exprt as PSD and construct the gif that way but I stick get the same issue.

I would prefer the ability to export firectly to animated gif, but I can convert many movie formats to AG as this is not the hard part. I just need to figure out how to get past this issue. I’m kind of working on another part of our game so I left this alone until I heard back.

Would you suggest I crop my images to 640×480 for backgrounds to import?

[Alan Lorence]

Some codecs don’t like weird sizes — you’re probably better off saving an image sequence out of pIllusion, not a movie.

Alan.

http://www.wondertouch.com

[Leonard Rivera]

I’m trying PSD, BMP etc.. But now I’m getting

“Can’t find acceptable pixel format”

[Alan Lorence]

Make sure your desktop is set to 24 or 32 bpp color.

Also try restarting the computer.

You may need to update your video drivers too.

Alan.

http://www.wondertouch.com

[Leonard Rivera]

I wish it were that easy – I’ve done all that.

[Alan Lorence]

Ok, then I guess the answer is: make sure the output size (stage size) is not a weird number. Make sure it’s divisible evenly by 4 and you should be fine.

Alan.

http://www.wondertouch.com

[Leonard Rivera]

OK. Will do. I’d bet that solves it…but I don’t gamble.

😉

I’ll let you know.

[Leonard Rivera]

Nope. I get the same pixel format error and when I click OK it says “Can’t Create OpenGL context”

This was trying to do AVI no compression. I’m going to try PSD again, if I get the same error, I’m going to take a closer look at my video card’s opengl settings. In the meantime, If you want me to send you the project and files (background), email me at my FirstInitialLastName at digital-church.com.

I tried setting the stage size to a standard resolution from the project settings drop down that was slightly higher than my background.