Fraps or other recording software.

NachT · 23 Sep 2007 at 20:47

I've not used Fraps or anything like it before, untill just now.

But I think there's somthing...wrong..

After recording a 30 second clip, at 30 FPS. the video file takes up 780MB... :confused:

Why? ;(

I see people uploading 3 - 8 minute videos to youtube, surely there's somthing not right with my 30 second 800 meg video? ^__^

Any info would be awesome, i'm a nub at this video editing / recording stuff.

Camalot · 23 Sep 2007 at 20:51

NachT said:
I've not used Fraps or anything like it before, untill just now.

But I think there's somthing...wrong..

After recording a 30 second clip, at 30 FPS. the video file takes up 780MB...

Why? ;(

I see people uploading 3 - 8 minute videos to youtube, surely there's somthing not right with my 30 second 800 meg video? ^__^

Any info would be awesome, i'm a nub at this video editing / recording stuff.

Put it into windows movie maker and save it smaller

Fraps recordings are HUGE :eek:

NachT · 23 Sep 2007 at 20:56

Ah thanks bud, i'll try that ;P

Yeah they are massive files!

Jokester · 23 Sep 2007 at 20:58

Fraps doesn't do any compression at all, Windows Movie Maker is what I used for making WoW videos but even then I could never get a good balance between quality and file size.

Jokester

ns400r · 24 Sep 2007 at 00:22

http://www.fraps.com/faq.php

Why is the AVI movie generated by Fraps so big? How can I reduce the size?

The filesize is big because there isn’t enough time to encode the movie while the game is running. The movie frames are slightly compressed, but still require a large amount of disk space due to the high resolutions. Once you have finished capturing you should convert the saved AVI into one of the popular compressed movie formats such as mpeg or divx. Recommended programs for doing this are tmpgenc (Tsunami Mpeg Encoder), and VirtualDub.

Using VirtualDub is quite easy. To create a compressed version of the AVI follow these steps:

Start VirtualDub
Select File->Open and choose the AVI in the Fraps directory you wish to compress.
Select Video->Compression and choose the codec you wish to compress with (usually divx)
Select File->Save As AVI and specify a filename for the new AVI.
If you have Windows XP you can also use Windows Movie Maker to compress the video files. If you use Windows Movie Maker it's recommended that you keep your Fraps video files at 800x600 or under.