AudioSurf Video Creation - A HowTo and Discussion.

[exceeder]

I would also like to make two notes.

When you tell fraps to half-size the video, you are also losing quality and performance from if you were to record at full size, and then later resize it in a video editing program, this is because fraps needs to resize the video on the fly, and it's resizing method is not as clean as video editing software. Fraps will create a more pixilated and messier resize than if you were to use video editing software.


Doing half-size on newer systems won't give that much of a performance hit over full size(hardly noticable), but on older slower systems it can help if your system takes too big of a performance hit.


And checking the "no sync" box should make it so that the video will capture at 30fps, but it won't force the game to sync down to 30fps, allowing the game's fps and the video recording fps to be different.

you saved me!
thank you for your two notes
and this thread has enlightened me so much thanks to all of you guys for sharing all this knowledge ! 

[Lollaff]

Does anyone know if it's possible to get bigger clips with Fraps than 3.9gb? On longer songs, the clip splits up in two, often leaving me with one clip at 3.9gb and one at maybe 200mb.

[Lavos^]

Does it matter? With VirtualDub just use "Append AVI segment" and add them together.

[Lollaff]

Does it matter? With VirtualDub just use "Append AVI segment" and add them together.

Thanks, that was kind of bothering me.

[Desse]

man, I should have used VD much earlier to
this is really great and easy

[Laserrobotics]

Does anyone know if it's possible to get bigger clips with Fraps than 3.9gb? On longer songs, the clip splits up in two, often leaving me with one clip at 3.9gb and one at maybe 200mb.

That's not quite a Fraps problem, more of an Everything problem.  I don't know of anything that will record to a video of 4GB or more, although I've never had the chance to try it on anything except a Windows OS.  Something to do with the way it handles files.

[Desse]

true
it's not a fraps problem
it's an avi problem

fraps is using an old avi type
and in this type the limit is by 4 GB

OpenDML (aka AVI 2.0) doesn't have this problem
but fraps is not supporting this version

[Maiev-]

I can't seem to set LameMP3 to compress with 44100 Hz, 64 Kbps, CBR, on Mono
The only ones that show up without the Show all formats box checked are Stereo; 48000, 32000, 22050, 16000, 11025 and 8000 Hz.

I use Windows Vista, an external Creative soundcard (Creative Sound Blaster) and Realtek HD Audio.

Anyone knows what might have caused the problem and how to fix it? thanks in advance.

[Uupis]

Audio -> Conversion.
Can't really check what's what at the moment, but you should check the one that states you are converting to Mono.

Also, I would use stereo if you are uploading it to YouTube in HD.

[masterage]

Does anyone know if it's possible to get bigger clips with Fraps than 3.9gb? On longer songs, the clip splits up in two, often leaving me with one clip at 3.9gb and one at maybe 200mb.

That's not quite a Fraps problem, more of an Everything problem.  I don't know of anything that will record to a video of 4GB or more, although I've never had the chance to try it on anything except a Windows OS.  Something to do with the way it handles files.

It's easy enough to get around, though: Xvid4PSP will join the files without skipping a beat. In fact, I'd recommend that program anyway for it's output quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11IlFQP7FtI
This one I used the 29.970 in native 720p, and it split into two files. Joined flawlessly.

[0per4t0r]

How would one be able to record direct sound and video in vista with GameCam?

[caitsith2]

One thing I had noted,  is that it is better to save your audio stream seperately, and process it outside of Virtualdub,  then direct stream copy it back in, if you wish to have a stereo recording.

It seems that things don't play nicely, if you let virtualdub encode your audio as well as the video, more steps, but the quality is that much better.

More or less, in virtualdub, Follow all of the steps related to video.  For audio, go into file, "save wav...".  Save it somewhere.  Use MP3 encoder of your choice on that wave file,  something like audacity.   (You have to also get lame_enc.dll from somewhere.),   Then once you have the MP3 encoded, back under virtualdub, Under audio, select "Audio from other file...",  And select the MP3.  Also under audio,  if not already selected, select "Direct Stream Copy".

[Laserrobotics]

Unless you're one of those people who can hear the difference between mp3 and wma, that's really a lot of work for no improvement.

[Havoc teh Raven]

whenever i go to save the file as an AVI i always get "Video compression error: The source image format is not acceptable. (error code -2)"

and I am using files that fraps recorded 

edit: I found out the problem. seems that Virtual dub only liked 30 fps! so I had to go to video > framerate and change it to 30

Sorry for the ancient bump, but this is happening to me too. The only difference is, my video is actually AT 30 FPS.

{Edit: Hurrrrrrr. I was trying to encode it in a resolution that was too small, I forgot that I took the capture at 1440x900.}

[nhex]

I read the last several pages of this thread and the first one, pretty helpful, but a lot of it seems kind of outdated now. I'm doing some tests now with Fraps and VirtualDub.

What are the best codec/quality settings for audio and video for uploading to YouTube, especially for High Quality and HD formats? I've messed around with video editing before, but haven't uploaded anything to YouTube, so I have no idea what it accepts or likes.