AudioSurf Video Creation - A HowTo and Discussion.

[Lollaff]

Run disk clean up then Degrag.

Run disk defrag 5~7 times in a row, until it completes in c.10 seconds. XP's degrag doesn't do much in one go so running it a few times gets better results (this was fixed in Win7, dunno about Vista though)

Ah, I thought disk clean up was defrag, I'm running on norwegian sys and the translations aren't always so good. Anyway, lots of good suggestions here, I'll try em and see what works!

edit: this disc defrag is taking long as hell, I guess that means there is alot of crap to clean up? ;P it's been on for quite a while now, and it's not even 1/5th of the way

[blue_h3x]

You should run disk clean up first, it removes all the old, unwanted and temporary rubbish.
It's found at

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%SystemRoot%\system32\cleanmgr.exe
If you haven't run Defrag for a long time (or at all ever) then yes it will take quite a while, hours.
Each pass will take less, until a pass takes ~5s and that's when it's good to go.

[Lollaff]

Too bad I didn't see this before, it's been running for a couple hours now. Will it be any point for me to do it after the defrag? at this rate it won't be finished until tomorrow morning or something, I'll just let it run while I hit the town

[blue_h3x]

After the first defrag, run clean up, then defrag as per previous posts.
Alternatively stop the defrag, run clean up, and the continue with the defrags

[infamus]

I use NCH Software's Debut program, then Prism for conversion.
Debut has the window selection ability but DON'T MOVE THE WINDOW. It doesn't select the program, it only crops the windows current position and size. It is capable of DirectShow recording as well as most programs, and supports PCM recording and all that jazz.

If you use Prism, you will have to buy it for things like .FLV files, but the free version allows .AVI and .WMV and maybe some other stuff. You can crop it, re-size it, change the quality, and even the bits per second. It also gives you a list of codecs to choose from and even supports XviD. Some you have to download, but it uses an on-demand system, and it's pretty seamless.

The programs themselves are super tiny and take up almost no CPU or RAM, unless of course, you are recording. They also give detailed descriptions of what's going on.

If you go to their products page the normal way, through their home site, you can't find the free version. The "free" page and the other page are on the same HTML, so you have to search for it.

SAUCE:
NCH home site: http://www.nchsoftware.com/
Debut:  http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/
Prism:  http://www.nchsoftware.com/prism/

To get the free versions just search for the product and add "free" to your query. No, I'm serious, that's what I did. I put in "nch debut free" into the search bar and got a different page. I have no idea why they would do that.


Also, I need some assistance. I've recorded and formatted the video, but I can't upload it. I select the file to upload, and it says it IS working but it stays the same percentage continuously. It's like it's just stuck.
OS: WinXP Home SP3
Browser: Firefox 4.0 Beta 9
Bandwidth available: 100kbps

[Rikilsta]

Something is wrong with these recorders they stop recording after 60 secs everytime

[Rynex]

I have plans to rewrite this guide, since it is now out of date and the images are now gone (I hosted them on a private server back in England, something I don't have access to anymore)

The guide will probably be more straight forward also, and you can probably use this guide for other video creation in other games.

Thanks

[David_VI]

I have plans to rewrite this guide, since it is now out of date and the images are now gone (I hosted them on a private server back in England, something I don't have access to anymore)

The guide will probably be more straight forward also, and you can probably use this guide for other video creation in other games.

Thanks

Did you ever update the guide? I can't find it Cheers!

[Lebon14]

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