Fmv

Factual Questions
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what is an FMV?

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Full Motion Video

(In the context that I’ve seen it)

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One of these?

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It is usually (or was usually) used to refer to movie sequences in computer games.

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Here’s some of the othere FMVs. Including Fair Market Value, Full Metering Valve, and Försvarets Materielverk.

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You wouldn’t belive the emails flying around the office trying to clarify the difference between FMVs, NIS’s, CutScenes and Scripted Sequences… :slight_smile:

  • FMV: As lobsang said, it stands for full motion video. This usually refers to a video that is “pre-rendered” (not using the game system’s hardware) and is non-interactive in that you can just sit and watch it and that’s it…

  • NIS: Non-Interactive Sequence. all FMV’s are NIS’s, but usually we use this term to refer to non-interactive sequences that use the game consol’s hardware to render them (usually they have a much lower quality than an FMV)

  • Cut-Scene: Used interchangably with NIS

  • Scripted Sequence: These look an awful lot like NIS’s… however an NIS is animated by an animator who creates custom animation that is not used anywhere else in the game. A scripted sequence is a non-interactive sequence that uses existing game animation. For instance, if a character was walking down a hallway in a scripted sequence someone would say “go from here to here” and the game would do that in exactally the same way as a player would - it presses the directional button that would get the character to the right place.

For some reason this argument comes up on every single game that I work on. I think it’s one of those rituals that everyone needs to have completed before they can get down to business…

-n

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Just to add yet another term. FMA- Full Motion Animation- is also used (at least in the UK) to refer to both Scripted Sequences and NISs.

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Fmv is full motion video

It was al lthe rage in the mid 90s once viable cd roms and console cd system games came out
What was supposed to have occured was interactive movies along the lines of a choose your own adventure vein Sort of hollywood meets sega

What you recieved was poor production quality bad acting and grade d movies that would make roger corman wince and games where you didnt do much but click a button and watched what happened (not that that type of game is necessairly a bad thing )

There were a few big budget ones that had semi hollywood stars tia carere dana plato kirk cameron ect

The best examples of this were the star wars rebel assault games and sewer shark (and these are mediocre games really ) …

the worse was almost every other fmv game ever made “iron helix” 80 percent of the fmv games on the sega cd and #do system ect

Some games were actually re released games with a few patched on fmv scenes or intros and re released as enhanced …
But today it s limited to cut scenes in between levels to tell a story and intros and the like