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Technical Advisor?
OK... I'm not much of a player (I can beat 1on1 Godlike and sometimes win Masterful against multiple SuperBots but hey) but I'm good at video editing/compression
If you want good quality and codecs that everyone has then use DivX505 and VBRmp3 (LAME or something) at around 576x432. If you want supreme quality, lower filesize and decide to include codecs in the video's package then use DivX with ogg vorbis for the audio (muxed into an *.ogm). All video must be encoded in two pass as well. I see sooo many video with a low CBR when they could have used a two pass and got much better quality for the same filesize.
Fraps 2.0 is out as well! (Just noticed) And sound is captured with video in this version. YAY!
Features
Sound is captured along with the video.
High speed capture codec allows for recording games up to 1024x768.
Frame-skipping support, movies always run at the correct rate.
Full gamma correction on screenshots and movies. No dark captures!
Half-size record option lets you play in hi-res without chewing through disk space.
Ability to disable the overlay, and a hotkey to switch corners!
Much nicer user interface.
www.fraps.com
Unfortunately for me... until November I'm on 56k so until then I can offer myself as advisor only to the technical process if you want me
DaBeatard said:
OK... I'm not much of a player (I can beat 1on1 Godlike and sometimes win Masterful against multiple SuperBots but hey) but I'm good at video editing/compression
If you want good quality and codecs that everyone has then use DivX505 and VBRmp3 (LAME or something) at around 576x432. If you want supreme quality, lower filesize and decide to include codecs in the video's package then use DivX with ogg vorbis for the audio (muxed into an *.ogm). All video must be encoded in two pass as well. I see sooo many video with a low CBR when they could have used a two pass and got much better quality for the same filesize.
Fraps 2.0 is out as well!
(Just noticed) And sound is captured with video in this version. YAY!Features
Sound is captured along with the video.
High speed capture codec allows for recording games up to 1024x768.
Frame-skipping support, movies always run at the correct rate.
Full gamma correction on screenshots and movies. No dark captures!
Half-size record option lets you play in hi-res without chewing through disk space.
Ability to disable the overlay, and a hotkey to switch corners!
Much nicer user interface.
www.fraps.com
Unfortunately for me... until November I'm on 56k so until then I can offer myself as advisor only to the technical process if you want me
If many different videos are going to be edited together, should we compress after capture or not? Because the final edited piece will be compressed again, right? And compressing an already compressed video will lower the quality. Or am I way off base on this?
I wish I could have said that with afew less 'compressed'-s, but whatever
I wish I could have said that with afew less 'compressed'-s, but whatever
DaBeatard said:
You're not way off base at all. However, unless you have limitless storage you will need to compress your fraps (or similar) captured footage. When doing this however, you must use a codec which is (a) As lossless as possible (b) Can be read properly by Premiere.
Premiere can have problems reading mpeg4 variants like divx or xvid so you must use something like intel indeo 5.11.
I'll research and find out a good intermediate codec for you
OK, found one!
Suitable intermediate codec test results[/U
Original footage captured by Fraps
640 x 480, Uncompressed, 38 secs, 424mb
Footage dropped down and compressed (lossless)
576 x 432, HuffYuv2.11 codec, 38 secs, 303mb
This means that whoever cuts the movie will have to do it all themselves unless they have a t1 line or something. They will need to get the demos with a good job-spec as to when the good shots are. They can then capture, trim and (lossless) compress each scene.
If people want, the editor could then upload a heavily compressed version of the day's shots to some webspace so we can all see.
I just did a quick test and found that a two second shot will be about 10mb which is more managable if people are desperate to cut and compress their own shots.
Something to chew on anyway...
Suitable intermediate codec test results[/U
Original footage captured by Fraps
640 x 480, Uncompressed, 38 secs, 424mb
Footage dropped down and compressed (lossless)
576 x 432, HuffYuv2.11 codec, 38 secs, 303mb
This means that whoever cuts the movie will have to do it all themselves unless they have a t1 line or something. They will need to get the demos with a good job-spec as to when the good shots are. They can then capture, trim and (lossless) compress each scene.
If people want, the editor could then upload a heavily compressed version of the day's shots to some webspace so we can all see.
I just did a quick test and found that a two second shot will be about 10mb which is more managable if people are desperate to cut and compress their own shots.
Something to chew on anyway...
FragBU Friday July 18 As usual, they will stay there for 1 week. 22.3 mb.
Is anyone dl'ing these and pulling clips?
@poopshoot. Thanks for the info.
If this video is going to happen it would be nice to know if anyone is capturing or atleast noting where cool stuff is.
Is anyone dl'ing these and pulling clips?
@poopshoot. Thanks for the info.
If this video is going to happen it would be nice to know if anyone is capturing or atleast noting where cool stuff is.
I've been downloadin them. However I can't capture them. I don't have any video editing tools, and I have no way to transfer the files to anyone else :\
Friday 7-25-03 FragBU Demos will stay in place for a week. 95.7mb
and
Saturday 7-19-03 FragBU Demos Small file, doesn't look like many people showed that night.
and
Saturday 7-19-03 FragBU Demos Small file, doesn't look like many people showed that night.
I tried doin the fraps on my computer but it didn't work too well. There are two absolute musts from the last string.
In the face3 map I do the jump off the edge shoot the combo down and then hit the jumpad land by the pyramid and hit the combo (first try too). I've done it before, there might be a demo out there of it but whatever.
In grendal keep scumgrief does a impact hammer jump onto the bridge and then does a falling combo onto me.
Both maps were towards the end like within the last 5, I'm not sure where exactly they were I'm still downloading.
poopshoot: can you fraps these two and then compress it to something nice for us?
In the face3 map I do the jump off the edge shoot the combo down and then hit the jumpad land by the pyramid and hit the combo (first try too). I've done it before, there might be a demo out there of it but whatever.
In grendal keep scumgrief does a impact hammer jump onto the bridge and then does a falling combo onto me.
Both maps were towards the end like within the last 5, I'm not sure where exactly they were I'm still downloading.
poopshoot: can you fraps these two and then compress it to something nice for us?
Alright...since no one seems to be willing to do any actual work on this, I'll have a go at it. Here's the deal- If you can frap some stuff on your own that's great. Set the camera up all nice and pretty and get a good capture. If you can get sound, even better. No music please, and no HUD or crosshair on the video capture (unless you really want it). If you can't capture somethin yourself then you need to tell me EXACTLY when and on what map the shot is, and whether you want first or third person pov. I am not going to sit in front of my computer for ten minutes watching you run around, and then another ten minutes to set the camera right, and then another ten until I can capture it. If you want a nice shot do it yourself.
Once you have a captured shot pm me a download link or find me on the fragbu irc channel and give me the file(s) there.
Once you have a captured shot pm me a download link or find me on the fragbu irc channel and give me the file(s) there.
Fraps is easy to setup. You need to have some codec's installed to record the vid. You then need to run UT2k3 at 640x480 resolution. Crank up the details and make try and keep the FPS at around 25-30 min.
Set Fraps to record at at least 25 fps and you should be fine.
Once you've got the vid recorded load up virtualdub and resave it into a more suitable codec(ie, divx5 or so).
You can trim the vid with virtualdub if you happened to record too early or didn't stop it soon enough.
Set Fraps to record at at least 25 fps and you should be fine.
Once you've got the vid recorded load up virtualdub and resave it into a more suitable codec(ie, divx5 or so).
You can trim the vid with virtualdub if you happened to record too early or didn't stop it soon enough.
It looks like I'll be doing most of the capturing myself. So if you have any good shots/caps/suicides/funny crap, post when and where in this thread:
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=112908
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=112908