From Fraps to Video Creation

Doyan · 12-03-2006, 06:53 PM

I have been stumbling around trying to work on a WoW movie and I am curious what other WoW movie makers have done.

Do you use the large Fraps .avi files to edit with in Premiere Pro, or Vegas?

I have been using Premiere and it tends to be picky about its source video format, so encoding to Divx before doing any editing is not the best option. I know alot of the Premiere forums recommend using DV-AVi type2 format for editing in but thats more for recording from DV-camera.

So my main question is do fellow video makers just edit the large pretty much uncompressed .avi's from Fraps or do you do any conversion/compression before importing your .avi's to your favorite video editor?

Thanks for the help/insight

Rothicol · 12-03-2006, 08:19 PM

I fraps my footage, and uses the LARGE files for my movies. When the movie is 100% done, I delete the frapsed files, to get some more space on my comp.

Thiras · 12-03-2006, 08:57 PM

Short answer: Compressing video with anything other than a lossless codec (fraps default or using huffyuv) before editing is a bad idea

12-03-2006, 06:53 PM	#1
Doyan Initiate Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4	From Fraps to Video Creation I have been stumbling around trying to work on a WoW movie and I am curious what other WoW movie makers have done. Do you use the large Fraps .avi files to edit with in Premiere Pro, or Vegas? I have been using Premiere and it tends to be picky about its source video format, so encoding to Divx before doing any editing is not the best option. I know alot of the Premiere forums recommend using DV-AVi type2 format for editing in but thats more for recording from DV-camera. So my main question is do fellow video makers just edit the large pretty much uncompressed .avi's from Fraps or do you do any conversion/compression before importing your .avi's to your favorite video editor? Thanks for the help/insight

12-03-2006, 08:19 PM	#2
Rothicol Hall of Fame member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Denmark Posts: 122	I fraps my footage, and uses the LARGE files for my movies. When the movie is 100% done, I delete the frapsed files, to get some more space on my comp. __________________ Hamfist Productions

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12-03-2006, 08:57 PM	#3
Thiras Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 528	Short answer: Compressing video with anything other than a lossless codec (fraps default or using huffyuv) before editing is a bad idea