I have the car traffic turned off so that is not an issue for me. I now have my EZDok world cameras set up and have the EZDok spot camera working. I also noticed in FS Recorder that I have render available but I did not try it yet. I think to get around the sound issue I will just need to run Audacity to capture the aircraft sounds during filming.

 

 

Sounds great!

 

If you want a very smooth and very good locking scenery with sound then one way would be:

 

Fly and record your flight with FS Recorder, settings in FSX very low, so that you can do smooth flying and record during that flying also the sound with FRAPS (or the capture program you mentioned) - FRAPS would only need to be on low resolution, because only the sound is important.

 

Later playback the flight using FS Recorder and this time with high settings in FSX, car traffic on, bloom effect on and so on. I even have maxed out autogen, using the super settings of more houses and more trees than normaly possible in FSX (with the help of FLUSIFIX or manual editing the fsx.cfg).

 

For doing flights in Germany over VFR Germany Photoscenery this pretty much makes the view quite natural over forests and cities.

 

Okay, my machine can handle it anyway, but with the render function you can do that even on notebooks. FS Recorder takes the time to render each frame perfectly and only after the frame is finished, it renders the next frame. You want smooth great looking clips with 30 FPS, you get them. Even higher framerates are possible.

 

FS Recorder becomes a masterprogram making FSX a slaveprogram so to say.

 

Then you have the sound, with ATC on it, FS Passengers, FSCrew or whatever you use or VATSIM of course too. You also have the video scene, that is perfect looking having been rendered during the playback.

 

Then you put the videoscene into the video track of moviemaker and the audio scene below that, a bit different in moviemaker from live essentials. Of course it is a bit of work to get it synchron.

 

There you go, you have the sound, a good looking video, everything smooth and than you let moviemaker produce a masterscene of that part of the flight.

 

Later you can use several of those masterpieces, cut them finally, add music and titels and that should look and sound good. Some colour and contrast correction is always helpful, if you have a program that can do that. Those ENB modes, that do that already during the flight, are not that easy to be setup to a real world look. It is always helpful to check out some real life videos on youtube if you don't have the chance to do some real world flying and to check out, how the landscape or airport you are flying to looks like concerning contrast and colour.

 

With that you have visual reference for your postprocessing. Anyhow, your style will be the correct style because you of course are the artist! Have Fun with that! If you have a very sharp video it would be good to load it up on a free account on vimeo (500 MB per week are free). Youtube even in HD has a to slow bitrate so you'll loose quite a bit of the quality afterwards. For private viewing at home, use the highest bitrate and resolution of course. Windows moviemaker from live essentials offers some very good results on highest settings.

 

Manfred

I have been filming now but with ConcordeX it turns out that FSRecorder does not recored the events properly, such as engine parameters, the flight deck clock, afterburners, etc. so the cockpit stuff is kind of a mess. I think it will be better just to record with FRAPS and live with the lower frame rate and a few pauses, at least the flightdeck will be technically correct.