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Getting Movies into Generals
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The-Light
Grenadier


Joined: 08 Aug 2009
Location: Netherlands

PostPosted: Wed May 19, 2010 12:10 pm    Post subject:  Getting Movies into Generals Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I just tombled upon this while searching more useful modding programs and thought this might be useful for other modders as well.

Maybe some of you already wanted to add your own video to Generals but found that generals used Bik files, than this "Tutorial" will show you how to get your video into a ,Bik format.

How To make your movie:
Simply use Movie maker or another program, or record part of a scirmish with a recording program like AutoScreenRecorder.

Here we can get RAD Video Tools
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

Now we have our movie and RAD Video Tools, RAD Video Tools can open quite a substantial ammount of file types, so lets assume the movie is in an openable format. Now what we do is opening the file with RAD Video Tools, you'll be presented with a screen similar to that in the picture. I put a red circle around the Bik button, pressing that button opens up a new screen in which you can adjust some settings.

The seccond screen I've also added, I also marked with red the converter button so it'll be easy to find. Pressing that button closes this screen and opens another, that screen shows the progress of convertion. Converting a movie or video takes quite a lot of time, when having one minute of film, then ten minutes of converting time is a reasonable guess.

For people who don't like reading, here the story in short:
1 make/get a video/movie
2 Get RAD Video Tools
3 Open the movie/video with RAD Video Tools
4 Press the "Bink it" button
5 Press the "Bink" button, and wait till it's converted.
6 Name your new .bik file after the filename of the video you wish to repace, or... open up GameData.ini and edit the name of the intro movie to match yours.



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Key Words: #Tutorials #Modding #Generals #ZeroHour #RADVideoTools #Videos 

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Frontlines
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Joined: 23 Nov 2009
Location: Charleston, SC

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

RAD Video tools doesn't work for me...
it's never able to open any file format.
-_-;

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The-Light
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Joined: 08 Aug 2009
Location: Netherlands

PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Frontlines wrote:
RAD Video tools doesn't work for me...
it's never able to open any file format.
-_-;


Do you get any error message, or use a 64bit system, OS other than windows?
That way i can see if i can help to find a solution.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Windows 7, 64-bit.

Only error message I get is " Error opening file "
I've tried every file format they have for opening. All the same.

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The-Light
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

looking at their FAQ http://www.radgametools.com/binkfaq.htm tells me bink uses stuf from other applications: "The RAD Video Tools uses QuickTime to import compressed sound formats." however without having quicktime(at least i never told to install it), just vlc at home it still works.

Hmm, i'm not very fond of quicktime, but do you have it installed? I'll also check if i have it home(just to be sure) to before advising to install it.

Note: my dislike of quicktime mainly comes from my liking of vlc, and the anoying way apple software update tries to install iTunes and Safari with it(where i dislike iTunes for it being slow on my system).

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I do have Quicktime.. at least, a quick search through my programs says I do.

I've run through their FAQ before, and I couldn't find anything to solve my problem. I've run it as Adminstrator, I've given full permissions to the formats I've tried.

I'm really stumped on this issue, and may just have to find someone to "Bink" Them for me, since, for whatever reason, I can't get it to work. -_-;

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The-Light
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Searching through google tells me more people have this problem, and especially on windows 7. Now i used to run it on windows 7 without problem, strange.
I have a friend with windows 7 64bit, but there it does work, the problem with disfunctional software is it's always annoying to find the cause.

Next step would be to try and let bink think it's running on windows XP, try compatibility(right click the exe -> properties -> compatibilty select Windows XP), if that doesn't work then i'm starting to run out of idea's :S

For ultimate solutions there are 2:
-asking at their helpdesk, which i'll do when it isn't solved soon.
-i'll convert them for you.

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dronemay
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Joined: 24 Aug 2018

PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 7:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

The-Light wrote:
Searching through google tells me more people have this problem, and especially on windows 7. Now i used to run it on windows 7 without problem, strange.
I have a friend with windows 7 64bit, but there it does work, the problem with dysfunctional software is it's always annoying to find the cause.
I also checked official Phallosan Forte tutorial/review compilation mensreviewzone.com/phallosan-forte-reviews/ and how to use the guide here. Even power user of Phallosan Bruce suggests to use for at least 7 months before expecting any results. Check buffaloreport.com/phallosan-forte-review-results



For ultimate solutions there are 2:
-asking at their helpdesk, which i'll do when it isn't solved soon.
-i'll convert them for you.


I am Windows 8. Still getting this error message.
" Error opening file "
Twisted Evil

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