Help me please!!! Quality issue

[Ozke The WoW King]

So im trying to render my movie to a good quality but i only get shitty quality, what am i doing wrong i followed a guide on stage 6:

http://www.stage6.com/user/brushyote...ies-for-Stage6

Followed every setting in that movie, still bad quality...=( how can i fix this? and what settings should i use in FRAPS?

This is how my quality gets:

http://www.stage6.com/user/Ozke/video/2194559/Test

[Thiras]

Uhm.. doesnt look bad to me

[Havix00]

Check to see if youre recording FRAPS in full-size and not half-size.
Also, What program do you use to render your videos? If youre using Divx, you may want to try it with Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premeire, or Sony Vegas and see if the quality setting any of those programs works better than the one you use.

You should also know this fact: The Mb/minute of video ratio for a great quality movie is 25Mb per 1 minute of footage. (15-20Mb/minute for decent-good)
If you are using the DivX codec and the DivX converter, you need to do the math to find out if your Estimated File Size is going to equal the size of a decent, good, or great quality movie. I did the math on you Test video and concluded that it should be 2.92Mb for 7 seconds in order to be better quality, instead of the 1Mb it is currently. (I took 7 seconds/60 seconds = 0.11667, then 0.11667 x 25Mb = 2.91667Mb)

(To clarify: Use this formula only if your video is in an aspect size like: 1280x720 or 1024x768, or something large. If your video is 455x325, then disregard this.)


I see the size of your video is 800x470. If you have the option, try different Pixel aspect ratios. 1.0000 Square is used most often for 720 & 1080 HD-esque movies, 0.9091 for movies scaling around 720x480, 1.2121 for 16:9 Widescreen, or 1.4568 for Academy Widescreen.
The quality and scale of your video depends on your aspect ratio and your pixel format. If you force raw footage to be bigger than it's intended to be then your movie will accumluate artifacts as you see in your Test video.

[Ozke The WoW King]

Well im using Full size in FRAPS and i render with sony vegas 8, i have a divx codec with HD profile.

I used the "Pixel aspect ratios. 1.0000 Square" setting.

And the movie should have come out 800x600, dunno what happend though.

And BTW does the FPS in FRAPS matter?

[vegito254]

What is the resolution of your original footage ? Your video had a pretty strange resolution I think it's either you scaled your movie down a lot or you are recording on half size. Since you already said you record on full size I expect it's the first one. Keep in mind that when you record a resolution higher then 1152*864 on a non dual core computer that fraps automaticly records at half size and messes up your quality so check out the quality of your original footage. If that is good try to render it out on the resolution of your original footage and maybe put your bitrate a bit higher if you do so.

[Ozke The WoW King]

Well, my resolution is 1440x900 non dual-core...

[vegito254]

Well I'm not sure if this changed depending on what build of fraps you got but fraps can't record fullscreen above a resolution of 1152*886. You'll have to set your resolution to that or lower to record fullscreen.

[Ozke The WoW King]

Ok, well i quess ill have to try =D

Thanks for the fast answers though!

[vegito254]

Originally Posted by vegito254

Well I'm not sure if this changed depending on what build of fraps you got but fraps can't record fullscreen above a resolution of 1152*886. You'll have to set your resolution to that or lower to record fullscreen.

That should be 1152*864 ofc my bad.