Fraps

[Eternal-Souljah]

Never really used it before but I tried it out and filmed from a game, for like 30 seconds or whatever and it comes out at 220mb file size?, anyone know of a way to reduce this? a file converter or something?.

[Mr. ADHD]

Re: Fraps

I know you can split the video in moviemaker, but most people prefer another software...which one I'm not sure. Split it...edit it...then convert it....I guess.

[Cerixus]

Re: Fraps

Yeah, the point is to record at high quality then edit/reduce as necessary. If you really don't like it that big, I believe FRAPS has a "half size" video option. However, when I tried the option it severely reduced my framerate during recording...

[glasseye]

Re: Fraps

you probably recorded it at something like 1200x900? you dont need it at that high a res. drop it to something like 800x600 and convert it to an avi.

[MazXFreddy]

Re: Fraps

Yeah, the point is to record at high quality then edit/reduce as necessary. If you really don't like it that big, I believe FRAPS has a "half size" video option. However, when I tried the option it severely reduced my framerate during recording...

I'm 99% sure that half size records at half the screen resolution size...:hmm:

[solodude23]

Re: Fraps

All wrong...lol.....how could yall think it could be that big just for 30 seconds? Ive recorded videos for 30 seconds with sound at 1280x1024...around 10mb AFTER using VirtualDub.

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.

[Cerixus]

Re: Fraps

I'm 99% sure that half size records at half the screen resolution size...:hmm:

I'm 100% sure it does... what's your point?

All wrong...lol.....how could yall think it could be that big just for 30 seconds?

Ummm, because it IS that big when FRAPS outputs it? Nobody denied that it wasn't compressed. Why is everyone so argumentative?

[solodude23]

Re: Fraps

Ummm, because it IS that big when FRAPS outputs it? Nobody denied that it wasn't compressed. Why is everyone so argumentative?

Have you not seen any videos before? On putfile, or any other pages? It takes seconds to load for movies lasting from 30 seconds minutes long at a reasonablly good quality. Going by peoples responces, they though he just had it too big or something like that. Thats why. I just find it somewhat ironic...thats why I brought it up. I wouldn't call it argumentaive exactly...well it at least wasn't meant to sound that way.

[AFEDslayer]

Re: Fraps

I dont think that those are directly from fraps, most likely have been encoded or somethine like that.

[imported_mn9500]

Re: Fraps

use sony vegas, and compress it with xvid, it looks the best and one of the smallest filesizes from my tests.