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Have been "playing" with the available options for capturing a video in Celestia. It seems that all are very small windows within the full screen.
Is there an option which allows capturing the entire screen? Is the closest to that a series of screen captures which could then be optimized/compressed into a video comprised of a series of captures?

Thanks.

Damon,

Celestia creates movies with standard video resolutions, not standard computer resolutions. Celestia v1.5.0 can generate High Definition (720p & 1080p) resolutions in addition to Standard Definition NTSC and PAL/SECAM resolutions.

For computer screen captures, you will need to use 3rd party software as you suggest.

selden wrote:Damon,

Celestia creates movies with standard video resolutions, not standard computer resolutions. Celestia v1.5.0 can generate High Definition (720p & 1080p) resolutions in addition to Standard Definition NTSC and PAL/SECAM resolutions.

For computer screen captures, you will need to use 3rd party software as you suggest.

Ok, looks like it's time to upgrade to v1.5.0.
Thanks, selden.

On second thought, not so sure. Have read FAQ's and find that my laptop with XP might not be up to the task of the new version. Have ATI Radeon X600 on Sony VGN-A690 with 1 Gig of RAM. Suggestions?

It looks like you CPU and RAM are OK. But when I looked up you video board you only have 8MEGS. If that is true you should be having trouble with Version 1.4. I have an old ThinkPad with a PIII @1gig and 16MEGS of video. It works but just barely. The main thing I notice is High Res images will bring the screen to a halt. And the terminator shadow between night and day is saw toothed. Other than that I show others the wonders of CELESTIA when I am out and about.

If there is a way to kick up you video I would do that. The app is a hog with the CPU and Video RAM.

Don

DonAVP wrote:It looks like you CPU and RAM are OK. But when I looked up you video board you only have 8MEGS. If that is true you should be having trouble with Version 1.4. I have an old ThinkPad with a PIII @1gig and 16MEGS of video. It works but just barely. The main thing I notice is High Res images will bring the screen to a halt. And the terminator shadow between night and day is saw toothed. Other than that I show others the wonders of CELESTIA when I am out and about.

If there is a way to kick up you video I would do that. The app is a hog with the CPU and Video RAM.

Don

Specs <http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/sony-vaio-vgn-a690/4505-3121_7-31270660.html> say 128 MB of dedicated video memory, and I've updated with SONY recommended drivers and software which (I think I recall) allows an additional 128 MB of dynamically shared RAM to be allocated for video graphics usage. Have never experienced problems that I know of with 1.4...

Making assumptions about how a new version might or might not work on specific graphics hardware is the wrong thing to do. You need to try it. Both AMD/ATI's drivers and Celestia are evolving to make new capabilities possible with the same hardware.