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VIDEO CAPTURE QUESTION
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Drakonais
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CloseWhat experience have you guys had with video capture to show off parts of your games? I downloaded and tried using a program called CamStudio, but to make a video with a resolution that can distinguish pixels well enough, a 15 second avi has an unbelievable 15 mb size! Is this typical or is CamStudio just a waste of time?
And if the latter is true, can you recommend a better program?
And if the latter is true, can you recommend a better program?
I use the full version of Fraps to good effect. Yes, raw movie files are quite large - sometimes several gigs for just a few minutes.
With camstudio, the filesize is indeed too big, but you can just convert it to wmv using windows movie maker afterwards. That's what I do, and then I send it to youtube. It looks good enough.
Aten
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That's because you have to run the video through a Divx or Xvid or similar compressor, I thought this was common knowledge?
When you record, you always record with a low processor lossless codec to avoid dropping frames and keeping the quality as high as possible to edit with. That's why your first recording is always huge. After you record you edit then encode into its final state.
My process is record with Camstudio (if the audio is busted I'll record that with Audacity), edit with Virtualdub/Audacity (and splice the video/audio together at this point), and then encode the final video with Mediacoder into MP4+2-pass h.264+AAC with pretty good results.
My process is record with Camstudio (if the audio is busted I'll record that with Audacity), edit with Virtualdub/Audacity (and splice the video/audio together at this point), and then encode the final video with Mediacoder into MP4+2-pass h.264+AAC with pretty good results.
AznChipmunk
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Raw video files are typically massive. I record with Fraps and when I export it out of Adobe Premiere into an .mp4 it is a much smaller filesize with pretty good quality.
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