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Text/voice in FS9 videos (Read 372 times)
Jun 19th, 2004 at 1:11am

Staiduk   Offline
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'Allo!
Does anyone know if it's possible to add either text or a voice-over in fs9 videos?
I'm referring of course to the 'flight lessons' provided in the learning center. Several folks have asked about flying an instrument approach; I want to make a brief video with either voice or text pointers during the flight as a tutorial that can be uploaded to SimV.
I haven't found such within FS9 itself; but if there are any addons or 3rd. party software that'll do this; I'll be grateful to be pointed towards it. Smiley
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Reply #1 - Jun 19th, 2004 at 8:13am

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Is'nt that already covered in the lessons? Smiley

Anyway, your question interested me so did a little recall Tongue and research.

The FS9 Flight Video is not a video file, but simply flight parameters recorded at interval and then 'played back'.

If your intent is to creat a video, that would require a video screen capture program, like Fraps, or hardware video capture, and audio recording for voice over. Combine these with video editing program (if you have XP includes Windows Movie Maker which might do the job).

If you looking to create an FS9 lesson type tutorial.....

Looking in FS9 the lessons appear to be generated using 3 files, *.wx, *.flt, and *.abl.;.wx and .flt are the same type files used to 'save flights'.; .flt and .abl are text script files.

As for the voices these are seperate .wav files, called by one of the above, I believe the .abl file.

Looking at the FS9 sdk page there is an 'abl sdk' download.  

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ABL or "Adventure Basic Language," is a scripting language used by several Microsoft games, including Flight Simulator 2004. It provides developers of adventures and lessons access to and control of aircraft and game parameters without requiring extensive programming knowledge.


Here for the FS9 sdk page: http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulator/fs2004_downloads_sdk.asp#traffic

Hope this is of use.

Cheers,
Dave

 

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Reply #2 - Jun 19th, 2004 at 8:34am

Staiduk   Offline
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Thanks for the info Dave; I'll check into it. Great - an SDK is ideal! Smiley
As for being covered in the lessons; it is, but folks are still posting. I'd like to whip one up (i.e. a lesson) that covers the most common questions. Smiley

Besides; I'm a bloody show-off. Ask my students.  Grin Grin Grin Grin
 

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