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Community => Adventure Related Talk & Chat => Topic started by: Blondbraid on Sat 01/10/2016 16:21:54

Title: Recommendations for making FMV
Post by: Blondbraid on Sat 01/10/2016 16:21:54
Hi everybody!
I thought that it would be fun to experiment with adding FMV cut-scenes to my next AGS-project,
but I have no experience making 2D videos and want to hear if anyone has any can recommend
any program for creating FMVs that is easy to learn for beginners. Any tips?
Title: Re: Recommendations for making FMV
Post by: Jack on Sat 01/10/2016 18:20:30
I would do something like this in-engine, for never having to deal with video codecs or compression artefacts in AGS, but even a simple scene takes a lot of scripting, so I can see the appeal. I expect something like the tween module would make this approach easier.

But if I had to do a video I would probably use spriter, since it has quite an intuitive interface and the free version can do a lot.

If the FMV is short however there's not really any reason why you couldn't just include it as a succession of frames, rather than a video, in AGS. That would make it lossless and you wouldn't need to deal with codecs.