SSD Time

Masterdeadly · 28 Dec 2011 at 18:44

Hello guys, asking a rather broad question here today and I was wondering if any of you have some knowledge on SSD's and write and read speeds.

I'm looking to record call of duty footage using fraps - I currently record at 30 fps and half size which is the only settings I can use to sustain 60 fps while gaming (this is a must) however my question to you guys is what SSD do I need to enable myself to be able to record my footage with 60 fps setting on fraps and full screen?

This is currently the quality I am getting -

Masterdeadly · 31 Dec 2011 at 22:56

anyone?

mrk · 1 Jan 2012 at 12:27

Why do you need to record at 60fps for the video rate? It brings about 2 things:

1: Double the filesize of an already massive video.
2: If you upload the video to Youtube etc then you will not get 60fps playback, it will be transcoded to 30fps anyway.
3: Using an SSD for this kind of purpose will shorten its lifespan considerably.

A decent mechanical drive is perfectly capable of maintaining 60fps as I used to record this way until I realised points 1 and 2. My FRAPS disk is a WD Green 1TB.

Your best solution is to buy a SATA 3 compatible HDD with a decent amount of cache and tell Fraps to save outputs to that, this will offload any stress from your OS drive which increases recording performance considerably. I can maintain 60fps in game recording the video at both 40 and 60fps in FRAPS at half res (game at 1920x1200).

Masterdeadly · 1 Jan 2012 at 12:38

I need "full size" so the quality isn't rubbish.

mrk · 1 Jan 2012 at 12:56

Half size quality isn't rubbish either though, your video outputs might be rubbish because the software and video encoder settings you're using are rubbish instead!

Please post your encoding software and what video encoder settings you're using as well as the codec chosen in the settings of the software.

For example one of my videos encoded using ArcSoft ShowBiz:

That's slightly upsampled to 720p but the software was set to 15Mps video bitrate using the h.264 codec and saved to an mp4 container. It's less blockier than your video in the Op so I can only imagine Youtube has treated your video differently because of the encoding differences it has had.