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rex
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posted 02 December 2001 16:55     Click Here to See the Profile for rex   Click Here to Email rex        Reply w/Quote   
Hey all, let me first start off by saying that I am the definition of a n00b to modding, BUT, I was wondering if there was anyway to extract the cinematics from the d2movies.mpq to my hard drive, then convert whatever format (bink i think it is) to mpg or avi?
Remember, me = ultra n00b to this kinda stuff, but I do know what most of this stuff does.

Thanks in advance,
Rex

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Dr Slue
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posted 03 December 2001 01:24     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
Just been through ALL of this. Head on over to "how to make ingame trailers..." on this forum and you will find what you need.

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rex
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posted 03 December 2001 17:11     Click Here to See the Profile for rex   Click Here to Email rex        Reply w/Quote   
Um, This was not covered in that thread, I read it exstensively. All I want to do is open the MPQ and be able to extract the files then turn them into avis. HOWEVER, none of the MPQ extractors seem to work, and I hear people talk about cv5 or something.

To recap, n00b wants to extract files from the cinematics in the mpq files, then convert em to AVI.

Thanks again,
Rex

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Dr Slue
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posted 04 December 2001 01:00     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
Oh sorry. Must have read it wrong. I thought you wanted to change it. All you have to do is use cV5 (i believe it is on the Keep now?) to extract the files and then you don't even need to change them to an avi, if all you want to do is watch them. But if you want to change them, you could try using bink to do it, otherwise i don't believe you can. You can go movie file to bink, but i'm not sure if it works the other way.

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jbouley
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posted 04 December 2001 08:10     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
I don't believe CV5 is actually at the Keep unless one of my fellow admins uploaded it and I didn't notice. I do have a link in the News on the home page at www.planetdiablo.com/phrozenkeep from one of my posts in the past couple weeks...but I think someone mentioned to me that was an old version I linked to.

I really don't know, but if you use the link to go to the CV5 site, someone there might be able to help you sort things out.

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rex
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posted 04 December 2001 08:36     Click Here to See the Profile for rex   Click Here to Email rex        Reply w/Quote   
Thanks so much guys. That link you gave me worked and I was able to get cv5 wherein I extracted the files, and ran the bink "converter" to convert them to avi. Worked Like a charm.

Thanks again,
Rex

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Dr Slue
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posted 10 December 2001 01:19     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
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Oh! Looksie here! 400 posts, oh well. Guess its time to stop posting now. Cya j. Hope your mod goes well. Cya everyone. Enjoy games. Enjoy mods. Enjoy life.

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