Post your Celestia videos!

[Gremo]

I've added the solar flares and that looks nice.
The first movie Gremo posted presents a very realistic sun, the brightness, the solar rays, the camera effects, they look really nice. Was this effect added in the movie or is this also an add-on?

Effects were added using premiere thanks for asking!

[Gremo]

Was this effect added in the movie or is this also an add-on?

I'm guessing it was added in the movie. The lighting doesn't match the presumed location of the "sun" in either picture.

What do you mean? The lens effect was added above sun actual position

[PlutonianEmpire]

The gas giant I posted in the pictures thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQJic7CBfvg

[PlutonianEmpire]

Using the techniques described here and here, and some improvisation, I was able to make this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R210ZF6WMyk

Viewing it in higher resolutions might make it easier to spot the dynamic changes.

[john Van Vliet]

pluto's P4
-- TESTING ONLY --
test 1
http://youtu.be/Yvgm0S-t7pg
res up to 720 HD
a random map exported from "Plenetgenisis " >to isis >to blender > to celestia

[Fenerit]

Good! Hi, John: the displacements are due to huge heights only or there is an underlying 3D model roughly sketched for?

[john Van Vliet]

it is 100% the 3d mesh
blender 2.58a has the ability to import the LOLA & MOLA data from pds
so saving the 16bit height map to a raw file writing a pds lbl is all that is needed

i am still working on a texture and a lower res mesh
or
i might use something completely different .

[john Van Vliet]

---- Test 2 ----
pluto's P4 moon
http://youtu.be/oQSSr1anEf8


and using this map imported into blender

[kristoffer]

I am making a little remake of the movie Avatar with Celestia. this is when the ISV Venture star approaching Pandora, but in this video, I have not added a spacecraft, but next time, I am going to do it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr9I2OZPidU

[PlutonianEmpire]

Try to guess what the green markers are and what they're doing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mBT2o9E3PU

[W0RLDBUILDER]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr9I2OZPidU

You don't need Fraps. Celestia has a built-in recorder that is much better and doesn't ever show the cursor. And it doesn't insert duplicate frames where Celestia's frame rate is different from the frame rate for the recording.

[kristoffer]

I've tried it before, and I need to say that it sucks badly

I don't get it. I have had some troubles with it, like some times, it changes colour on the video, and that is irritating me a lot

but capture pictures, no problem with that

[selden]

Which "it" are you referring to? Celestia or some other video recording method?
What video codec are you specifying? It could be that the codec is buggy. Make sure that you've installed the most recent versions and that you've gotten them from a reputable supplier.

FWIW, I normally specify "Full Frames (Uncompressed)" and let the video editing software do the compression.

[kristoffer]

the Celestia recorder

[selden]

the Celestia recorder

Then you do need to try the different codecs to see which ones have problems. They are what control the compression methods, and thus may be trashing the colors.

p.s.
I just now did some tests recording of the rotating Earth for 30 seconds at 24fps and 320x240, with uncompressed (155MB), "Intel IYUV" (80MB) and "Microsoft Video 1" (15MB). None showed any color shifts, although the output of the Microsoft codec showed compression artifacts (squares could be seen).