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09-03-2007, 10:11 AM | #1 |
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Getting the best quality video
I just started to fraps some games tonight, and have spent most of the night messing around with different codecs in Vegas. I'm fairly clueless about all of this, so I'm wondering what's the highest quality codec (what settings etc?) I can use without the file size getting too out of hand.
I followed the stickied tutorial, and it was decent I suppose. There is a fairly noticeable difference between the original file from fraps and the compressed version, which is expected. The detail isn't too bad, it just seems much flatter. So, before I delete a bunch of the junk files, I just want to make sure I'm compressing the clips I want to keep to the highest quality. |
09-03-2007, 10:37 AM | #2 |
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I don't understand what you are looking for.
Do you want the best settings for Vegas for rendering at the best quality or the best settings for Fraps/WoW to get the better quality raw footage? Edit: Thiras will post soon.
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09-03-2007, 11:19 AM | #4 | |
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The fraps footage was fine (Would always like to improve if possible of course). I'm looking to improve the quality of the compressed video (as I said) before I delete the original footage. Last edited by joty : 09-03-2007 at 11:21 AM. |
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09-03-2007, 01:31 PM | #5 |
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Rofl @ terwilliger :>
Eh so. If you want to compress your clips *before* editing I'd strongly advice against it. Less quality and codecs designed for watching purposes only (xvid, wmv, etc) don't go along well with editing programs. The flatness is normal. Has to do with colorspaces and crap. edit: And the best codec is in most cases xvid. wmv sometimes does a better job. Depends on editing/res/sharpness/if its raining in japan |
09-06-2007, 10:16 AM | #6 |
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09-06-2007, 02:38 PM | #7 |
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h.264 imo
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09-06-2007, 03:37 PM | #8 |
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09-06-2007, 09:46 PM | #9 | |
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I play WoW in a 1280x1024 resolution, and it seems all my fraps videos come out as 800x600 for some reason. My PC isn't the greatest but it's fairly new (6750 duo, 8600 512mb, 2g ram). I've just been rendering everything to the DivX codec via the tutorial, but now that I've gotten some stellar clips I'm just worried that the quality is terrible. It looks comparable to other movies up on WCM but I just imagined I could have an awesome quality movie with my new PC. I was thinking around 5-600MB for a 30-40 min movie. Thanks a lot for the suggestions, and I'm sorry if my english is poor as it is not my first language. |
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09-06-2007, 09:59 PM | #10 | |
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It's sort of tricky but I think it turns out nice with the proper settings (and I don't know what the proper settings for wow vids are since I haven't tested it a single bit) |
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