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Title: clueless with video compression
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on February 26, 2006, 06:07:19 PM

I recorded a couple of short racing clips from GT Legends using FRAPS. Even if the clips are fairly short (30 sec max), they come out as 150 to 200 MB files.:eek:

I'm trying to reduc their size using VirtualDub so I can post them here. It seems I can reduce their size to 10% (10 to 20 MB) each, but I loose quite a lot in video quality. Any words of wisdom, before I post a couple of 30 sec 50 meg clips?

Title: clueless with video compression
Post by: ramzey on February 27, 2006, 12:38:48 AM

have you try divix?

Title: clueless with video compression
Post by: SOB on February 27, 2006, 12:41:22 AM

I've had good luck with this in the past:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx

Good luck meaning that I'm lazy, it was easy, and it compressed fairly well for me.  I bet Divx would do a better job though, quality-wise.

Title: clueless with video compression
Post by: moot on February 27, 2006, 02:45:08 AM

I've only used Adobe Premiere, once, and VBR was the cheapest single compression I found, in terms of quality loss.
This is from fraps, ~40fps, 1024x, wmv codec, 75% VBR quality. (http://taenia.homestead.com/files/fxoSCtc_1024.wmv)
Divx was at least as good, but I couldn't get it to work.

Title: clueless with video compression
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on February 27, 2006, 08:39:19 AM

Thank you, I couldn't get good quality AND low MBs with fraps. I found a program on my computer called Windows Movie Maker, that allowed me to insert all my clips, insert text and transitions and compressed my700 megs to a 50 megs with a fairly good quality. (See racing is fun thread).

Title: clueless with video compression
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on February 27, 2006, 08:50:32 AM

Download RAD video tools from http://www.radgametools.com

With the free utility you can pack computer graphics practically losslessly with a huge compression rate. It has its own codec so ppl who view the files can either install the codec or you can compile the movies to .exe files that have a built in viewer.