I've recorded 30 mins of a bf2 round with fraps and it came out to a 60gig file... I would like to compress this file into something less than 300mb and still keep the movie quality so it's watchable at full screen (I'm thinking like the same quality of a 700mb full movie). So I was wondering which program/codec would allow me to do this?
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Use sony vegas:) -
DivX Codec.Comment
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29 mins, duno the original size but i brought it down to 180mb so i could upload to this site
wmv format
just to show u what kinda quality u can expectComment
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Using...? You use .wmv @ 3mbps right Pred?Comment
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I've tried in windows movie maker but the video quality is just way too ****ty, I'm looking for something more like the quality in Rivfader's stage 6 video that's in his sig...
I have virtual dub and sony vegas 8 pro, any step by step guides? not looking to do any editing just compressing to a normal size and that's it. I've tried compressing with virtual dub to an xvid format but it scaled down a 4gig file into 600mb which doesn't help much...Comment
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What is the res that u rec it with 1280x1024?? because if u scale it down a bit (keeping the looks) to 1024x720 itll take the size down quite a bit (did it 2 my vids) :)Comment
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Originally posted by THEONEANDONLY
I recorded @ 1024x768 with in game audio and 100fps.
Every 2 minutes came out to 4gigs and I've recorded for 30 mins so I have 15 2 minute files which come out to 60gigs.Comment
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WOW mine was about the same only the FPS was at 80 and i had a few 2-4min files at only 2gigs max ....what did u rec with FRAPS??Comment
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Your best bet is to take VirtualDub and resize down (this makes an exponential difference in size). Watchable at full screen is a matter of screen resolution, no? 640x480 or something along those lines is pretty workable at full screen in most situations.
You also would want to resample it at 25-30 FPS. 30 FPS is pretty silky for video, 25 FPS is typical. Anything above 30 FPS in a video is useless, since you wont be able to see it. Keeping it high in FPS is useful for time warping/slo-mo in productions, for for straight viewing, it doesnt help.
If you are not wanting to edit it, then encode it in Divx or Xvid. This will give you the best lossy-to-quality compression. If you want to edit it, your options become limited (which is why my 750GB drive is arriving today), as most editing programs at this point dont like to play with lossy codecs. For lossless compression, I currently have started using .MOV files with a Quicktime Pro license, but you can also use .wmv.
If you havent already, take a look at the forums compression article .Comment
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I rendered my 5 min video at 800x600 and it came out to be about 160 MB in decent quality
I didn't use the divx codec, I used the xvid codec with two passes. You usually can specify what size you want.
If you can compress your 6 gigs down into 600 megs, I think a little more optimizing can bring it down a even more.But, Make sure you are compressing the audio! Uncompressed audio for a 30 min video could easily take up over 100+ megs.Comment
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Yeah, as Keyelite said, xVID is a good one to use. However, DivX has quite a few functions within its package, so i'd try both and see which works out best for you.
Fraps is a killer on the hard drive, cus even 5 second clips can be ridiculously big filesizes.Comment
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Well it's 60 gigs, not 6 and I'm trying to compress it to around 300mbs. I've tried xvid but the file was still too big after compression. The divx codec on the other hand didn't allow me to render in 1024x768 resolution so I tried in 640x480 on best quality and I didn't like how it came out, was pretty bad in full screen.Originally posted by KeyeliteI rendered my 5 min video at 800x600 and it came out to be about 160 MB in decent quality
I didn't use the divx codec, I used the xvid codec with two passes. You usually can specify what size you want.
If you can compress your 6 gigs down into 600 megs, I think a little more optimizing can bring it down a even more.But, Make sure you are compressing the audio! Uncompressed audio for a 30 min video could easily take up over 100+ megs.
I think I've found a pretty good solution though, rendered it to a .wmv VBR file @ 1024x768 res. and it came out pretty well, you could see everything clearly and the video was smooth enough when I put the bitrate over 1.3mb.
Compressed a 4gig 2 minute file into a 20mb wmv file...
I'm still toying around with the bitrates and trying to figure out which is better between VBR and CBR although so far vbr seems smoother and the file is a bit smaller as well but the compressing takes quite a while; about 13-14minutes for a 4gig file as opposed to around 9 minutes in CBR mode.Comment
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