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JoKane
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Posted - 2005.01.26 22:45:00 -
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IŠve noticed that some people get awsome quality on the footage that they record, not the blurry stuff thats the rest of us gets. I was justing watching an old pre castor movie that Rev made and if you pause in the middle of the film then it looks like a screenshot. Skywalker also had good quality on his fraps in his movie, you can easy read the namnes on the scanner and the messages, its almost like its you that is playing.
IŠve been testing alot with diffrent settings on fraps and ingame setting on the client but with no result. The footage that I get is the standrad quality, its not bad but the blurryniess is very annoying. Do anyone have any tips on what you can do to improve your recording qaulity? I havent tested with settings on the hardware yet but I dont think that the graphiccard has anything to do with it.
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AvanCade
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Posted - 2005.01.26 23:31:00 -
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Recording quality will be the same, as 99,9% of us use Fraps. Its all about what you do after it (encoding). Do it right and you get excellent quality.
Ofcourse, Graphic card has a bit to do with it as well. Looks your EVE awesome, so it will on the recorded footage.
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JoKane
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Posted - 2005.01.27 00:26:00 -
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How is it possible to get better quality after encoding then? If they original footage is blurry then wouldnt the compressed also be like that? IŠve been trying with alot of settings in VitrualDub when compressing but it stills look blurry. I cant get that ingame feeling that some manage to get in their movies.
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AvanCade
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Posted - 2005.01.27 01:05:00 -
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Original footage should be as high quality as EVE is. In other words, if you play the original footage it should be like you where in EVE.
If it is not, then there seriously is something wrong. Can't help ya there then.
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JoKane
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Posted - 2005.01.27 15:50:00 -
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The quality that I get on my fraps vids looks like about the same as the footage in your last vid to make an example. It looks kinda good but its that annoying blurryiness that makes it hard to read the namnes on the scanner etc. I get alot better quality if I fraps from some other games so I dont think it have anything to do with my hardware settings.
I guess I just have to live with it then.
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Albus
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Posted - 2005.01.27 16:16:00 -
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Edited by: Albus on 27/01/2005 16:18:36 FRAPS can either record in full-size mode or half-size mode. If you record in half-size then your base footage will be reasonable but still a little blurry, as you are only recording a quarter of the pixels on the screen. If you record in full-size mode then you get everything. However, FRAPS can only record in full-size up to a certain resolution , 1280 * 720 I think it is. If you go any higher then it automatically switches down to half-size. Therefore if you run Eve in 1280 * 1024 or higher as most people do, then you can't record at full-size and so your base quality will suffer.
You could try switching to 1024 * 768 and see if your recorded footage looks any better, although you will then have to put up with a smaller area of screen to play in.
As Avancade said, if you do any editing of the footage then the codec you use to re-compress the final file will greatly affect the image quality. MPEG, DivX and XVid are common ones to try. Eve often looks worse than other things when compressed because you often want to be able to read the text, and text does not compress well.
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JoKane
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Posted - 2005.01.27 19:27:00 -
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IŠve been testing alot with resolution and graphicsettings ingame, its still the same result.
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Leafo
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Posted - 2005.01.28 09:54:00 -
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Edited by: Leafo on 28/01/2005 09:54:31 Albus pretty much sums it up about FRAPS there.
For me, in order to actually be able to play efficiency and FRAPS at the same time I have had to sacrifice the crisp text from in the game.
I try to get the rest of the elements as smooth as possible though.
I play EVE in 1280x1024 (window-mode) and capture in half-size at 25 fps (no sound). I edit the material in pure DV-mode.
After this it is all about the encoding. From some tests I have made the WMV 9 -codec produces the best quality vs filesize for EVE-videos (compared to DivX and X-vid that rocks for everything else). I think this has to do with how DivX and X-vid handles and compresses frames with alot of dark areas in it.
I encode to wmv in Adobe Media Encoder that is packaged in Premiere.
This doesn't really answer your question but that's how I do it.
//Leafo
click on sig for all my videos
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