[General] Tutorial to convert VID videos into WEBM
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:17 am
HI translators,
Classic Daggerfall contains a set of video files that are into Bethesda specific format, VID.
To localize the classic Daggerfall, we had to add subtitles in those of the videos that have audio text so that people can understand what is said in their language.
These localized videos must be included in a localization mod, but Unity does not accept VID format, it accept only MP4 and WEBM video containers, so we have to convert the localized videos. Knowing that the Linux Unity accepts only WEBM format, the better is to convert all the localized videos in WEBM that is accepted on all platforms.
Having done the job for the 15 French videos that will be put into the future French Translation mod, I've written a tutorial to explain how to proceed in order to transform the videos from AVI to WEBM format. This will be useful for the other translation teams for other non-English languages. As the tutorial is a little long, it's better to distribute it as a PDF file.
You can take the tutorial here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12jGcLS ... sp=sharing
If you have remarks, don't hesitate to post them here.
Today the WEBM videos are still in the original 320x200 dimension. This subject may be used too to share ways to obtain videos with better quality for nowadays bigger resolutions if it can be useful. But it must be noted that the subtitles are hard incrusted into the VID videos, so the subtitles must stay readable if we raise the size of the original videos.
Classic Daggerfall contains a set of video files that are into Bethesda specific format, VID.
To localize the classic Daggerfall, we had to add subtitles in those of the videos that have audio text so that people can understand what is said in their language.
These localized videos must be included in a localization mod, but Unity does not accept VID format, it accept only MP4 and WEBM video containers, so we have to convert the localized videos. Knowing that the Linux Unity accepts only WEBM format, the better is to convert all the localized videos in WEBM that is accepted on all platforms.
Having done the job for the 15 French videos that will be put into the future French Translation mod, I've written a tutorial to explain how to proceed in order to transform the videos from AVI to WEBM format. This will be useful for the other translation teams for other non-English languages. As the tutorial is a little long, it's better to distribute it as a PDF file.
You can take the tutorial here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12jGcLS ... sp=sharing
If you have remarks, don't hesitate to post them here.
Today the WEBM videos are still in the original 320x200 dimension. This subject may be used too to share ways to obtain videos with better quality for nowadays bigger resolutions if it can be useful. But it must be noted that the subtitles are hard incrusted into the VID videos, so the subtitles must stay readable if we raise the size of the original videos.