BZ, New Display Team

Kyle Hammond · Post by **Kyle Hammond** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:26 am

Hey guys!
In the process of creating a new display/formation team....

Heres a vid
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?aut ... d&fid=5575

Burner · Post by **Burner** » Tue May 02, 2006 12:34 pm

Great first vid, I especially liked the music, simple and not the norm of what's in Flight Sim vids.

Starting a new team is big undertaking, you should decide what kind of team you want to make (plane to fly, formations to perform, team dynamic). The team of your dreams might already be formed, there are about 5 major teams flying LOMAC right now. You may want to look into a tryout with them b/f undertaking the great task of creating a successful LOMAC formation aerobatics team.

Overall, goodluck, you look like you're off to a good start.

Kyle Hammond · Post by **Kyle Hammond** » Tue May 02, 2006 5:09 pm

Burner wrote:Great first vid, I especially liked the music, simple and not the norm of what's in Flight Sim vids.

Starting a new team is big undertaking, you should decide what kind of team you want to make (plane to fly, formations to perform, team dynamic). The team of your dreams might already be formed, there are about 5 major teams flying LOMAC right now. You may want to look into a tryout with them b/f undertaking the great task of creating a successful LOMAC formation aerobatics team.

Overall, goodluck, you look like you're off to a good start.

Its not yet offical so i will probabaly go to a couple tryouts if possible.

However right now its looking like we our more likely to create a brand new team. Right now ive noticed its hard to find any decent pilots and i can see that other formation groups are having the same problem.

Right now the formation group only consits of me, karl and sometimes another friend matt.

We normally fly at least once a night and ive noticed since last nights pratice that one day can make a major difference we are currently praticing many types of aerobatics while still in formation!.

tyndallonics · Post by **tyndallonics** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:45 pm

What program do I need to view this video. I can't get it to play on my computer. It downloads in a web browser like QuickTime is going to play it, then it doesn't play anything.

Post by **Lawndart** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:51 pm

Fires up in Windows Media Player just fine for me! Check your file associations.

LD

lqcorsa · Post by **lqcorsa** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:35 pm

Inspiration can go a long way cant it? Auston, with your vid problem. I prefer Windows Media player, but some how realplayer got its self installed and it became my defualt player. I'd give it a try with real player.

Not a bad video with those Sukhoi's. Keep it up.

tyndallonics · Post by **tyndallonics** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:09 pm

not to hijack the thread, but I don't know how to change file extensions in Windows 2000... Anyone? I'd love it get it where QuickTime never comes up when I click on a link. It doesn't even launch an external application, it just plays all my videos right there in a new browser window.

lqcorsa · Post by **lqcorsa** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:59 pm

not sure about windows 2000. In xp all you have to do is go into folder options while in a folder and make sure "Hide file extensions for know file types" is unchecked, and then rename the file with a .exe, .wmv, .avi or whatever... did that help at all?

Or you can try right clicking on the file, and as long as its not in a zip, you can click "Open With" and then choose your desired thingy.

Kyle Hammond · Post by **Kyle Hammond** » Wed May 03, 2006 1:12 am

Cheers all.

p.s yep should work fine in windows media player considering its a .wmv

tyndallonics · Post by **tyndallonics** » Wed May 03, 2006 7:27 am

ah-hah... my computer hates WMV. I'll try to figure it out.

Rotorblade · Post by **Rotorblade** » Wed May 03, 2006 8:32 am

Nice video.

The Virtual Snowbirds are recruiting. We need 5 more pilots we currently have 10 pilots. If interested check us out at www.virtualsnowbirds.com . We are looking for people with the right attitude and the time to dedicate to this.

Rotorblade

Jonnyb · Post by **Jonnyb** » Wed May 03, 2006 11:15 am

Same with IAT...

www.iat-aerobatic.com

and ill need your msn address if you have one.

Post by **Lawndart** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:59 pm

Sounds like you're getting invitations to "established" teams already from this video. Good job! As far as movie making goes, for better visual esthetics always disable the menu bar and labels in external views when you capture footage. It's a tell tale sign rookie movie making!

To make sure it plays in Windows Media Player (re-associate the files), just open Windows Media Player. Go to the "tools" menu, click on "options...". Once the options window opens, click on the "file types" tab. Make sure that the checkbox for "Windows Media Video file (wmv)" is checked with a white background. If it's checked and gray or not checked at all, you'll need to re-associate the file exclusively with Windows Media Player. To do so, uncheck the box and recheck it so that it has a check mark and a white background. Then hit apply! This does all the same work for you as going into folder options etc would do and trying to manually set file associations...

Hope this helps!
LD

Kyle Hammond · Post by **Kyle Hammond** » Wed May 03, 2006 6:25 pm

Lawndart wrote:Sounds like you're getting invitations to "established" teams already from this video. Good job! As far as movie making goes, for better visual esthetics always disable the menu bar and labels in external views when you capture footage. It's a tell tale sign rookie movie making!

To make sure it plays in Windows Media Player (re-associate the files), just open Windows Media Player. Go to the "tools" menu, click on "options...". Once the options window opens, click on the "file types" tab. Make sure that the checkbox for "Windows Media Video file (wmv)" is checked with a white background. If it's checked and gray or not checked at all, you'll need to re-associate the file exclusively with Windows Media Player. To do so, uncheck the box and recheck it so that it has a check mark and a white background. Then hit apply! This does all the same work for you as going into folder options etc would do and trying to manually set file associations...

Hope this helps!
LD

ive been making videos for sereval years, it was just a lazy mistake thanks anyways