program AutoVideo

[TheDestroyerOfWorlds]

AutoVideo

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If you've followed the razorwire videos or other guides to manually create VotW mods, you know that it is time consuming and monotonous. AutoVideo is a program that automatically creates the entire VotW video addon from scratch with esp, textures, sounds and meshes. For novice users up to 10 videos per esp.

 

For intermediate users that know how to use FO4Edit you can have AutoVideo generate a script to go over the 10 videos limit, or just to add new videos to any other VotW esp.

 

Installation:

Extract the exe from the zip wherever you want. THIS IS NOT A FALLOUT 4 MOD, THIS IS A STANDALONE EXECUTABLE.

 

IMPORTANT! For this to work you need to have ffmpeg installed: https://www.ffmpeg.org/
For windows 10/11, try installing ffmpeg by typing "winget install ffmpeg" into the command prompt (cmd). If this does not work or you are on an older(??) version of windows, look up on google how to properly install ffmpeg.

 

FOR THE UI VERSION:

Fill in all required(*) fields and press start. Hover over fields with your mouse pointer to get more information.

 

FOR THE CLI VERSION:

Use "autovideo --help" to get all available options.

 

Is this a virus?

It is dangerous to run random executables from random people online. All I can tell you is that this is not a virus and give you this virus scan as proof:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bbce17a4ef6616e70a01c8f53ff22e21d1cfd60b2fd806355fe272ed153702dd/detection

My own anti-virus is not bothered by autovideo.exe but yours might be. If your windows SmartScreen or maybe anti-virus gives you a popup that autovideo may be malicious, this is because the executable is unsigned and thus not trusted by windows. Signing an executable costs money and I'm not willing to spend that.

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• Submitter
  TheDestroyerOfWorlds
• Submitted
  10/29/2024
• Category
  Other
• Requirements
  Videos of the Wasteland (not required, only if you want to watch the result)

 

[SorinFire]

Hi Man checked out this mod and can say it works really well and everything, i just want to ask one thing though. is there a way you can edit it to go more than 10 fps on your script because i managed to do that by editing the base script from razorwire to double the fps (while losing half the allowed playtime to like 5mins). i still think this is really awesome how you automated it though.

[TheDestroyerOfWorlds]

On 10/30/2024 at 12:23 AM, SorinFire said:

Hi Man checked out this mod and can say it works really well and everything, i just want to ask one thing though. is there a way you can edit it to go more than 10 fps on your script because i managed to do that by editing the base script from razorwire to double the fps (while losing half the allowed playtime to like 5mins). i still think this is really awesome how you automated it though.

 

Do you mean that you edited the video creation script or the actual scripts for Videos of the Wasteland or something? Because editing the razorwire scripts to do double fps will just cause the ingame video to play at half the speed afaik.

[SorinFire]

On 11/3/2024 at 4:36 AM, TheDestroyerOfWorlds said:

 

Do you mean that you edited the video creation script or the actual scripts for Videos of the Wasteland or something? Because editing the razorwire scripts to do double fps will just cause the ingame video to play at half the speed afaik.

yes i edited the razorwire scripts and it does slow down normally, but i also double the Frequency(speed) in the nif file so it runs it at double the fps,  you do need to manually edit it a bit to make it work but it does work

[TheDestroyerOfWorlds]

5 minutes ago, SorinFire said:

yes i edited the razorwire scripts and it does slow down normally, but i also double the Frequency(speed) in the nif file so it runs it at double the fps,  you do need to manually edit it a bit to make it work but it does work

 

What value do you edit in the NIF to speed up the video?

[SorinFire]

i edit the frequency here in [NiControllerManager] by 2, i also halve the stage's playtime since its playing twice as fast in [NiTextKeyExtraData]. the default is usually 25.6

[goochiemaine]

Hi, the tool works correctly for TV Displays but the same tapes do not work for (indoor) projectors and their screens ( i.e. not the Drive In but the ceiling screen and home theatre).

Any ideas? a resolution issue maybe...  

 

Thank you for the tool btw, very cool. 

[Mowsey34]

Does your tool allow creating reels, or only holotapes?

[goochiemaine]

Hi Mowsey, from my experience, the tool creates a Drive In reel automatically if the video is under 3mins 49s. If your video is longer the tool will come up with this as a warning and prompt to ask if you want to continue. Meaning you may only make a holotape .esp for your chosen vid. 

[Mowsey34]

12 hours ago, goochiemaine said:

Hi Mowsey, from my experience, the tool creates a Drive In reel automatically if the video is under 3mins 49s. If your video is longer the tool will come up with this as a warning and prompt to ask if you want to continue. Meaning you may only make a holotape .esp for your chosen vid. 

Good to know, thanks, I didn't see that info mentioned anywhere.
I assume the created plugins cannot be ESL because they're too big?

[goochiemaine]

I think it may depend. unhelpful answer I know. I've managed to flag the ESPs from the tool to ESLs in xEdit for the TV tapes and they work fine. Haven't tried Reels.

 

However... 

I converted multiple files in the same xEdit session and some of the tapes play the wrong video. So, maybe try flagging each .ESP to ESL individually (i.e. one per session) so their form IDs don't get confused. Let me know how it goes. 

Edited November 12, 2024 by goochiemaine

[th-richter]

Hello, unfortunately the program doesn't seem to work for me. FFmpeg is installed, autovideo unpacked on the desktop and started according to your instructions. I get the following message:
autovideo : The name "autovideo" was not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file or executable program. Check the spelling of the name or whether the path is correct (if included) and try again.
In line:1 characters:1
+ autovideo -i test.mp4 -n test
+ ~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (autovideo:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Suggestion [3,General]: The autovideo command was not found. However, it exists at the current location. Windows PowerShell does not load commands from the current location by default. If you trust this command, enter ".\autovideo" instead. For more information, see "get-help about_Command_Precedence".
 

[TheDestroyerOfWorlds]

29 minutes ago, th-richter said:

Hello, unfortunately the program doesn't seem to work for me. FFmpeg is installed, autovideo unpacked on the desktop and started according to your instructions. I get the following message:
autovideo : The name "autovideo" was not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file or executable program. Check the spelling of the name or whether the path is correct (if included) and try again.
In line:1 characters:1
+ autovideo -i test.mp4 -n test
+ ~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (autovideo:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Suggestion [3,General]: The autovideo command was not found. However, it exists at the current location. Windows PowerShell does not load commands from the current location by default. If you trust this command, enter ".\autovideo" instead. For more information, see "get-help about_Command_Precedence".
 

 Please read the error, it tells you right there what you need to do. This is PowerShell, not commandprompt

[th-richter]

4 hours ago, TheDestroyerOfWorlds said:

 Please read the error, it tells you right there what you need to do. This is PowerShell, not commandprompt

Um... ok, my mistake. Works fine, thanks.

[TheComedian.]

Hi I'm quite disappointed, the program doesn't allow you to create 24 grids?

Also I don't understand where the output ends?

I thank you anyway for the contribution because it opens up the possibility of industrial development of votw!

[TheDestroyerOfWorlds]

1 hour ago, webchef said:

Hi I'm quite disappointed, the program doesn't allow you to create 24 grids?

Also I don't understand where the output ends?

I thank you anyway for the contribution because it opens up the possibility of industrial development of votw!

 

The program does allow you to create 24 grids and the output ends up in "output"

[TheComedian.]

FAILED to encode 49987584 bytes of 48kPcm16BitMono data to xWMA (bitrate 48000)
Converting output/Sound/Videos/SM-Kristen/XXXXSM-192.wav to output/Sound/Videos/SM-Kristen/XXXXSM-192.xwm failed with error E_NOTIMPL (Not implemented)

Reading frames ...

It seems that "SM-192" is longer than 03:24.8 (8 grids), no DriveIn version will be made.
Do you want to continue? (y/N)

 

I don't understand where this output folder is located and I can't see it anywhere.

I'm glad though that it's possible to create 24 grids

 

problem solved I had done something stupid, thanks

Edited November 25, 2024 by webchef

[Ghost637]

Sorry man, i absolutely love the idea of this appication but this was too complicated for my dumb ass to figure out how to get it to work. Your instructions are very unclear for how to get it to work after the install stuff. Otherwise great idea. 

[TheDestroyerOfWorlds]

47 minutes ago, Ghost637 said:

Sorry man, i absolutely love the idea of this appication but this was too complicated for my dumb ass to figure out how to get it to work. Your instructions are very unclear for how to get it to work after the install stuff. Otherwise great idea. 

 

The instructions assume you already know a little bit about the commandprompt (CMD). You can find more information about it online.

[Lexicon9090]

Heyo. 
So I just started using this mod and I love it. I'm actually in the process of making a visual guide if you don't mind? I'm only having two real issues. 

I keep getting like....six copies of the same video in the crafting menu. Only one seems to do anything though. Did I do something wrong or??? 

Okay this isn't an issue but, how would I put multiple videos into a single mod so I can release like...video packs? ((Solved using the help command, sorry Idk why I didn't see it the first time through))

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for the great mod. 

 

 

Edited January 15, 2025 by Lexicon9090

[TheDestroyerOfWorlds]

3 hours ago, Lexicon9090 said:

Heyo. 
So I just started using this mod and I love it. I'm actually in the process of making a visual guide if you don't mind? I'm only having two real issues. 

I keep getting like....six copies of the same video in the crafting menu. Only one seems to do anything though. Did I do something wrong or??? 

Okay this isn't an issue but, how would I put multiple videos into a single mod so I can release like...video packs? ((Solved using the help command, sorry Idk why I didn't see it the first time through))

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for the great mod. 

 

 

 

If you mean the tapes called "AUTOVIDENT" etc, these are placeholders for autovideo to replace when adding videos (stands for Automatic Video Identifier). You can remove the placeholders using FO4Edit if you're done with your esp or prefer to use the script generator to add more videos instead.

Edited January 16, 2025 by TheDestroyerOfWorlds

[Lexicon9090]

4 hours ago, TheDestroyerOfWorlds said:

 

If you mean the tapes called "AUTOVIDENT" etc, these are placeholders for autovideo to replace when adding videos (stands for Automatic Video Identifier). You can remove the placeholders using FO4Edit if you're done with your esp or prefer to use the script generator to add more videos instead.

That.....Wow I do not feel very smart right this second. That makes sense and good to know. A+ A+ A+ mod. 

This is totally just a giant what if but....is there a way to add the holotapes from VoTW somewhere in the worldspace? I was thinking of making a quest to hunt down videos but dunno how hard that would be. If you could point me in the direction of finding an answer that would be super. 

 

[TheDestroyerOfWorlds]

10 hours ago, Lexicon9090 said:

That.....Wow I do not feel very smart right this second. That makes sense and good to know. A+ A+ A+ mod. 

This is totally just a giant what if but....is there a way to add the holotapes from VoTW somewhere in the worldspace? I was thinking of making a quest to hunt down videos but dunno how hard that would be. If you could point me in the direction of finding an answer that would be super. 

 

 

You'll need to learn the Creation Kit for that

[Lexicon9090]

2 hours ago, TheDestroyerOfWorlds said:

 

You'll need to learn the Creation Kit for that

Thank you! I actually found another mod that does it but I'm going to make my own doing as you suggested and using the Creation Kit. Thanks for the quick replies and patience with a noob. 

[Beerbandit]

Love this mod but I'm having an issue where sometimes everything works fine but when I try load tape into projector I get "you can not store that here." I assume I'm doing something stupid here.

Edit. Started working again. Seems like it Votw itself or the game. Anyway, awesome little program. 

Edited January 24, 2025 by Beerbandit