Carl Lundell
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Project settings: https://i.imgur.com/ALCTakG.png
Render settings: https://i.imgur.com/z3Ndm7w.png (and 16 M bitrate)Fraps files are high quality avi files, including the ones recorded from VLC, footage of old Senna clips. I don’t know what other info I can share, if this isn’t enough, explain what you need me to do.
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Ok, I make game videos so I don’t use a camera (but fraps) and there is always a problem of ghosting unless i Disable Resample… which is fine if the only choice to set this default is to pay for a script, which I am not prepared to do.
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$10 for THIS?! Ouch. I think I’ll skip that and do it manually.
Thx anyway 😛
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Cool, I don’t know how to use them. Is there a tutorial out there for this? I would like to try it.
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Thanks for the help 🙂
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[John Rofrano] “Well… let”s just say it’s not optimal. If you want great quality, you need to record at 1920×1080 because when 1600×1200 gets resized down to 1920×0180 it’s not going to be as sharp as you’re expecting. Yes it will work, but you probably won’t be happy with the results. Try a few tests and see for yourself.”
I see. Though not all games let me choose that resolution, 1600×1200 is sometimes the highest. Or it’s very high like 2048×1536 and no 1920×1080 option available. But yeah… I’m testing this out.
[John Rofrano] “If you change the frame rate you may get ghosting and not like the results. It is best to record at the same rate you will render at. If you can’t, you may have to disable resample to eliminate the ghosting.”
Yeah. I’m familiar with this sort of ghosting and I’ve disabled it in earlier projects. I once rendered a movie I had worked on for quite some time and didn’t know how to disable that UNTIL I had already removed my movie files and the project save file, hehe. It wasn’t a very good movie anyway… so nevermind that :p
[John Rofrano] “Who told you that? The people here who shoot 60p will swear that they can see the difference between 60p and 30p and I can definitely tell the difference between 30p and 24p so your assumption is false. The human eye can and will tell the difference. If you render to 24p I can almost guarantee that you will be complaining the your video looks choppy (because you can tell the difference too) ;-)”
Ohh, I got totally confused with this. Thanks for clarifying. Well, I’m rendering at 29.970, that should be decent enough for a gameplay video… I guess it won’t matter if I fraps in 30p and then render the movie in 60p? I have yet to try that out.
[John Rofrano] “I would not render uncompressed. Those files are going to be huge and I hope you have a RAID 0 array with at least 5 discs to handle uncompressed HD. You should just render to MainConcept AVC (MP4) to upload to YouTube.”
I’ve got no idea what RAID 0 array is or what it means, first time I come across this. I know however that uncompressed movie files are huge, but I’ve used a program called Easy h264 to compress those, it’s actually not so bad, I was recommended to use it on another forum. I honestly couldn’t tell the difference in quality comparing with MainConcept AVC (MP4), and the filesize was almost HALF of that. I could show you an example if you like. Of course both have their advantages, with MainConcept AVC (MP4) you don’t have to render the movie uncompressed first and if one cannot handle the huge filesizes you shouldn’t do it, but for me that works fine, and the result of using Easy h264 is as I said, 1/2 the filesize and quality remain pretty much the same 😉
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Thanks! 🙂
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Hehe, thanks for the replies guys, you know I was trying to pre-render a few clips using the SHIFT+B key combo, and I think I might’ve hit 2 other keys next to them on the keyboard which caused my clips to not play at all. Maybe you know which combination I did hit? =D
And yeah, I should definitely get the 9.0e update, thanks! 🙂
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Oh I guess it only required a PC restart…. 😛
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Well, it’s just working occasionally.