Majortangles Bf2 Fraps Video #1

[Tangles]

MajorTangles BF2 Fraps Video #1

featuring "Coma" by Pendulum

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Right-eo. First ever go at capturing of video via a pc (thru Fraps), captured a few slides and sorted thru them, and compiled them to a track.

Finally worked out how to underlay the music and overlay the video.

I had my screen at 1024 x 768res with 60mhz, with fraps capturing at 30fps. I used Blaze Media Pro (free for 2 weeks, lol) to string the clips together and lay the music, and to compress it all once completed I used VirtualDub, and compressed it again to get it down from 180mb to 147mb to 58mb, so it has lost a lot of its resolution and quality.

Next time I'll try capturing at 60fps on Fraps and have my screen set at 800x600res with 75mhz. Will take my time and make a good video, but for my first up ever quick-job effort it aint that bad I suppose. I’ve never ever captured vid before, or done any of this so its a bit new to me but next movie will be better, just wanted it to move more 'freely' on the screen. *sigh* oh well

Hosted File (on a free 60mb upload site):

http://www.savefile.com/files/468115

best viewed with VLC Player, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[Madaz]

its not the resolution thats making your movie large ... btw there is nothing wrong with a 100mb movie if its a good movie 100mb for 10mins or little less

i suspect what is wrong is your not doing the encoding right i havnt used Blaze Media Pro before, but with Ulead VideoStudio you set out your fraps avi's on the story board do you Titles and sound tracks and then when u encode you select a movie extension and go advanced and select a further codec and tweak the settings of it, i imagine Blaze Media Pro is the same there shouldnt be any need to use Virtual Dub

even windows movie maker will do a good compresion

ill see if ive got a movie on FTP to show you the sort of quality

well i cant find what i was after but its still on my hdd its a movie of racer driver 3 @ 720x576 with a bit rate of 1.06Mbps almost 10 mins is 76mb

[Tangles]

cheers for the tips mate, I'll follow that when I edit the next lot of footage (started tonight, got 6 nice paddle kills on record, lol). yeah Im a newb+++ with all this. ta for the advice Im sure it'll help the next one come out much better.

currently recording at 800x600 with 30fps half-screen (vid in 400x300 and playback seems to have no choppiness). I'll practise what you've written there and see how I go.

[Madaz]

when i take my fraps footage its @ maximum i can take for unpaid version.. then if resizing is needed i let the encode do that

its nothing for me to encode upto 10odd times get get good compresion and codecs bitrate and all that

[mid life crisis]

so when are ya posting all ya home made porn movies tangles ? ie deep throat tangles and tangles in the pool shed lol and not to forget the old fav big sausage tangles.

Edited February 7, 2007 by mid life crisis

[Tangles]

so when are ya posting all ya home made porn movies tangles ? ie deep throat tangles and tangles in the pool shed lol and not to forget the old fav big sausage tangles.

LOL you crack me up Dean.

Funniest post of the day.

[Madaz]

there is a program called ZD soft Game Recorder also it has more options for compressing on the fly

there was another one also but i spent some time trying to find/remember the name but cant

http://www.tucows.com/preview/502356

[mid life crisis]

actually i believe tangles is starring in a new production called " dont tangle with me or ya arse will be sore " :-)

[Tangles]

LOL

yeah cheers for the info, help and tips Madaz, and the humor-relief from MLC (mid life crisis or massive loser squad, lol its Fitzy reborn!).

taking current footage at 800 x 600 at 75mhz, with 30fps, half screened. So end footage is 400x300 (good for youtube) and seems pretty clear at this stage. Will muck around with window media player this time, but Im still editing via Blaze media Pro (aint a bad program actually)........... got so many shock paddle kills on fraps now, its almost embarresing.

:sorcerer:

[Madaz]

you shouldnt need to encode twice Blaze Media should be able to do a good compression first time