Incident Replays & You Tube Videos
1 - Find the incident on a VSK Replay
VSK saves every race as a replay automatically. It over-writes these saves every time you launch the game, so if you know you will want to examine a replay, save it under its own name during the game, via the escape key menu. If you want to find the name of the most recent Autosave, then you can find them here:
C:\Users\{your name}\Documents\{your game version}\Tracks\Replays\Autosaves.
Launch the game & use the Menus:- Editors / Replays / Replays /
You will see the replays you have saved during play & the folder for the Auto-saves.
Select a replay's name and then [Edit]. This will start the replay screen :
You can click & drag the Timeline Slider to arrive at the part of the race you want to see.
Click on the Boat Names icon if you want to see them.
Hold the right mouse button down to swing view around.
Zoom using the mouse wheel.
Use the Arrow keys and Page Up and Page Down keys to move your viewpoint to the best place.
Click on the Play icon to watch the action.
Press the TAB key to expand the game window. Restore the menus by pressing TAB again.
Note: If the host goes into spectator mode, then everyone's replay will have a time line that stops at that point.
To see more of the replay, click on the end bar of the time block. This will show a 'Time Value' (in seconds), below the 'Block End' value. Then edit the time value and the Block End value. For example, if you add 600 (seconds) to the Time Value, then you should add the same time (10 minutes) to the Block End, to retain normal playback speed.
Then you will see 10 more minutes of the replay.
2 - Use FRAPS to make a Screen Capture Video
Download FRAPS from fraps.com & launch the programme. If you use Vista or Windows7, make sure you have the latest version of FRAPS because the older one is not compatible with the new Movie Maker Programme.
Look at the 'General', 'FPS', 'Movies' & 'Screenshots' tabs and make certain that their hot keys are not ones that you will use during VSK play. I disable all except for [Num9] for Video Capture.
Minimise FRAPS to system tray - dont close the window with the red 'x' or the programme exits!
Play the replay as described above in '1' and use the FRAPS hotkey to start & stop recording. Keep the video short because the files are large. They are too large for YouTube, so we need the next stage...
3- Use Windows Movie Maker to make final video
Launch Windows Movie Maker via the All Programs menu. It comes free from Microsoft.
Click on 'Videos' under the 'Import' Heading
Browse to your new FRAPS .avi file & select it - then click on 'Import'.
Drag the file icon from top of Movie Maker window to the 'Video' Track.
Click 'This Computer' under the 'Publish To' Heading. Browse to select the destination for the new file and name it. Accept the defaults (best quality).
Now you have a .wmv file that you can upload to the YouTube or similar site.