Nevart Posted July 13, 2008 Report Share Posted July 13, 2008 Well... does anyone have the answer? Or even a guess? Ideally I would like to save as AVI and then convert to MPEG later, after the edit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snacko Posted July 13, 2008 Report Share Posted July 13, 2008 Check out Fraps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2. Administrators Jabo Posted July 13, 2008 2. Administrators Report Share Posted July 13, 2008 What he said. I'm just getting to grips with Fraps myself. It seems reasonably straightforward. BTW Welcome to the pound Nevart, must have missed your welcome post from Jim, but ~s~ anyway ~s~ Jabo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannon_fodder Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Fraps is the only software I know to convert the sreen display to an AVI. Once you have an AVI file then any editing software will do Windows XP embedded free software is "Windows Movie Maker" Its very basic (just like "MS Paint") but still very servicable and allows basic mixing of sound FX and music. If you save it as a WMV you can reduce a 500Mb+ fraps avi to a 10-20Mb final output size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klinger Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Fraps is good for the screen capture, but it saves the files as raw video, and those files are BIG. Try using VirtualDub (free dl) to compress the files into eg. mpeg2, then import to moviemaker. Also, I had to run the game in a window at 1024 by 768 to capture, or the result would be stuttery and too big. 800x600 would be good enough for YouTube. Have fun editing it down, lol. Good luck. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted July 17, 2008 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted July 17, 2008 hey kling, welcome back to our virtual world, too bad we did not get to meet in the real one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannon_fodder Posted July 17, 2008 Report Share Posted July 17, 2008 Under the FRAPS control panel (where you set the hot keys for recording) you can set the resolution of the recording. You don't need to change the game res I set mine to record 640 x 480 (VGA) from a game res of 1280 x 1024 Don't forget that Full 'state of the art' HD home cinema format (1080p) is only 1,920x1,080 High quality DVD resolution is 720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL) 640 x 480 is more than high enough quality for internet use and if you upload to You Tube you will be resized to 320x240 FLASH7 Try and keep the format as raw (AVI) for as long as possible. You will lose quality as you compress the image so I always keep the image umcompressed for as long as possible. The worst thing for you can do is compress a image that has been compressed buy a different algorithm. Once you have finished your master edited final movie you can delete those masive raw capture files. I always try to create a master using avi as it is a lossless format then re-encode the finished file at progressively higher compresion until quality begins to drop to get the smallest file possible. This alows you to produce a high quality version for local distribution and low quality for web distibution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevart Posted July 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2008 Hi guys, Thanks for lots of really good suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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