Recording help

[Seala]

So me and Laurencelot were playing just now and we decided to record some games. It worked fine and we got some decent footage. So when we were done I tried recording it with fraps (full version) and I bumped in to two problems.

First of all the files were really big, which wasn't completly unexpected but still, one game of about 5 minutes took up 9gb. I know I'm supposed to encode it and stuff before uploading it but I havn't done it before and some help would be much appreciated.

The other problem was that fraps automatically cut the file when it reached 3.9gb, so basically my 6 minutes footage got cut in to two 2:40 sec long clips and one 40 sec long clip. That's not that big of a deal I guess since I can just cut them together in any video editing program BUT it would still be nice to have em in one piece from the start.

 

[NixxxoN]

Use Hypercam 2 for good quality recording.

This is what you can get:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSH-q28zJAc&fmt=18

the file size is low aswell

 

[Seala]

Hypercam tends to get choppy, most of the time even more then in your video, the quality is very nice with fraps so I'd like to stick with that unless it's a big problem.

 

[NixxxoN]

what do you mean choppy. Maybe i gave you a bad example... Really high quality possible with Hypercam 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk_-mHhowO4&fmt=18

No really need for even better quality, Hypercam 2 rules D:

 

[Seala]

Is that the registered version of hypercam tho? Usually there's a little note saying unregistered hypercam 2 at the top, and those tend to get choppy. By choppy I mean it's low fps or something making it feel abit laggy, you can notice it abit in the first video you posted, but it's often worse.

 

[Deleted member]

i used the full version of fraps for my vids and the files aren't that big for me. What settings are you using?

 

[Surri-Sama]

Take the movies made by fraps and put them into Windows movie maker....(Dont have to edit if you dont want)...and just put the whole video on the slide, and then finish the movie file to the "recommended" settings.

File size drops a LOT

 

[Seala]

i used the full version of fraps for my vids and the files aren't that big for me. What settings are you using?

Well... there's not really that much settings in fraps that could affect it, not that I can see atleast. I use full size, 60 fps, enable sound and detect best sound input.

Take the movies made by fraps and put them into Windows movie maker....(Dont have to edit if you dont want)...and just put the whole video on the slide, and then finish the movie file to the "recommended" settings.

File size drops a LOT

Enough to put it on youtube?

 

[The Star King]

Yes.

Like 50x times less for me.

 

[killa k]

what do you mean choppy. Maybe i gave you a bad example... Really high quality possible with Hypercam 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk_-mHhowO4&fmt=18

No really need for even better quality, Hypercam 2 rules D:

what settings do you use :O?

 

[NixxxoN]

what settings do you use :O?

XviD MPEG-4 codec, 20 frames per second, 1 keyframe ratio capture, 768x756 pixels, then you can use windows movie maker to compress the file to make it smaller in MB.