compress avi or converting it to mpeg video

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how do you do this? because when recording stuff with fraps it produces gigantic video files easily in the multiple gigabyte range what is the best way to compress these files for making a video and uploading to the web?

[Hellsent 2.0]

Re: compress avi or converting it to mpeg video

Why double post this thread?

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: compress avi or converting it to mpeg video

Avi is a 'wrapper file' which often contains mpeg data. The best thing to do once you have finished editing is to compress them using a H.264 codec. There is a guide here http://teek.info/guides/video/x264encode.html

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Re: compress avi or converting it to mpeg video

Why double post this thread?

caus for some reason i looked in the other forum and it didnt show my post so i thought that kind of stuff wasnt allowed or something so i posted here

[signa]

Re: compress avi or converting it to mpeg video

Read these threads:

Movie Compression Techniques

Beginners Guide to Video Capturing/Editing (Using Fraps and WMM)

Xvid 2 pass encoding

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: compress avi or converting it to mpeg video

x264 is far more efficient than xvid and will make uploading to youtube (or whatever) a lot faster :)

[=98=]

Re: compress avi or converting it to mpeg video

Try using handbrake. It's one of the only true multithreaded applications.

[AllFoamNoBeer]

Re: compress avi or converting it to mpeg video

Sony Vegas can do almost anything and pretty well. Just not free though..

[=98=]

Re: compress avi or converting it to mpeg video

I mean multithreaded conversion app

[[USAC]S|Cpl.TinFoil]

Re: compress avi or converting it to mpeg video

I mean multithreaded conversion app

x264, mencoder, ffmpeg, certain-Xvid-binaries, Nero AAC, oggenc2, LAME, and FAAC would like to have a word with you. Hell, every damn respectable modern encoding format's encoding applications would like to have a word with you.

For the most painless conversion, I suggest encoding into Xvid with MeGUI as a frontend. There are a few things to learn, but it's a valuable skill to know when encoding many FRAPS videos.