Copyright Daveh27   15 July 2002
Daveh27's Ultimate Ride Video Tutorial
There are two ways that you can create a video of your Ultimate Ride.

1.	If you have T.V out on you video card, connect the P.C. to your video machine and activate your T.V out function.
	Open Ultimate Ride, choose your coaster and record on to Videotape.

2.	This way is far more complicated and time consuming but is necessary if you do not have T.V out and or you want to share the ride with people who do not have the game and who want to ride on their P.C.

	First create a shortcut on your desktop. (If you are using Windows XP, right click on the desktop, select “new” then “shortcut”. Follow the wizards instructions and find the programme it is going to open i.e.: “C:\Program Files\Disney Imagineering\Ultimate Ride Coaster Deluxe\URideDx.exe” Next choose a name for it so it does not get mixed up with anything else. I chose UltRideCDVid.exe)

	Right click the shortcut and choose properties

	I have XP so the changes are in the "Target" Line and not "Command Line" as is stated in the FAQ section of the UR site.

	After the Quotation marks at the end of the line, type a space followed by /x <fps> <size>

	My line looked like this:
"C:\Program Files\Disney Imagineering\Ultimate Ride Coaster Deluxe\URideDx.exe" /x 20 1

	The size number is what size you want it to be i.e. 1=full size, 2=half size and 4=quarter size.

	Once all this is done click apply then click OK.

	Now, when you want to make a movie of the ride, use the new shortcut to launch the programme, select the ride, choose the view you want (i.e. movie or on board) press tab to get rid of the stats box then press space bar.

	IMPORTANT: Leave the PC alone to allow all the frames to be captured (depending on frame rate and size you choose, this could take a while)

	Once the ride has finished the recording will stop automatically.

	It is now safe to leave the programme.

	You should now find all the screen shots in the Ultimate Ride directory for that version of the game.

	There will be thousands (EEEEKKKKK!!!!)

	Don't panic.

	Next step (this can be quite time consuming and tedious at first)

	Open the animation programme you are going to use (I found that Animation Shop 3 that came with Paint shop pro 7 was easiest to use.)

	Use the wizard to make an animation. (This programme is memory dependant so work on a 10 second clip at a time <200 frames if you captured at 20 fps> more if you have more than 256 MB, or less if you have less than 256 MB) Keep track of the screen shots you are using so you don’t use the same ones over and over again. (In Animation Shop 3, you can select multiple screen shots by holding and dragging the mouse. Animation Shop 3 will put them in numerical order for you. This is good as the screen shots all have numbers after them and it can save alot of time.)

	Make sure that the display setting for each frame of the video is the same as your capture.
(i.e. if you captured at 20 fps, then each frame should only be displayed for 0.05 secs)

	Now save the clip as an avi file (this is where you may think your PC has stopped working. It has not, it is just extremely busy.)

	Once the file is saved, view it using Windows Media Player to check it is okay before moving on to do the next clip. If it is fine, you can delete the screen shots you have used.

	Now work on another clip, and another and so on till all the screen shots have been used.

	Close the animation programme and open a video editing programme. (I used Windows Movie Maker)

	Import the clips and add them to the story board, add any music or sound that you want to go along with the video, and save in you preferred format. (I chose wmv as I needed a small file size for my site, however, this caused a loss of quality. Remember that you can see my first video on my site: http://www.geocities.com/daveh271974/index.htm )

	I hope you found this tutorial interesting and helpful. Remember, if you need any further help, contact me by e-mail: d_harries26@hotmail.com

Keep On Riding And Screaming.