rec.autos.simulators

We have heard that there is a utility that can convert a replay file in
NASCAR(R) Racing 3 to an .avi. If anyone has any information that may

Thanks for your time.

Carolina Online Racing
"The Working Man's League"

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

http://www.hyperionics.com/

"Does Hypercam work with 3DFX, Glide, Voodoo(x) compatable games?
If so, how do you do it? Please respond via e-mail. Thanks.

No, it does not. HyperSnap-DX (my other product) can capture still frames
from them, but the time to capture and decode each frame is too long for AVI
recording."

I looked around some and found a product from Techsmith called Camtasia.
Techsmith is pretty good as I use their screen capture program at work.

Anyway, I downloaded the demo and tried it out. Here is the review.

Pros
Able to capture replays as AVI or RM

It has a decent editor that allows you to cut scenes and add effects to your
movies. It will also let you resave to AVI or RM with many settings for
each.

Cons
Price - $149 for the real deal although the demo appears to be fully
funtional and does not add any bs banner or cut you off after 15seconds or
something like that.

In the captures I did I was only able to capture 1fps at full screen 800x600
16mil colors. I changed it from full screen to a selected area and
aproximated the small square viewing area from the menu. I was able to get a
better frame rate but it was still a bit choppy. It says a lower res and
less color will speed things up a lot but I haven't tested it completely.

If you do try it out I found you must alt-tab out of N3, then start Camtasia
and also start the capture before alt-tabbing back into N3. If you look in
the options you can pic a screen area for a fixed area. It takes a few
attempts but you can line up the small window.

Also, check the options and turn off auto compression - the web site said to
do that and there is a slider bar in there that allows you to change to
fastest compression - but not most efficient. They said this works best to
obtain a higher frame rate.

AVIs that I captured are huge 1min is about 15MB. The RM quality will
degrade a lot set at 56K but file size drops to 256kb - size is 100% of the
same replay window in N3 but I think you can adj it.

I will continue testing - test system (p2-450/128mb/gf32sdr)

almost forgot http://www.techsmith.com/