firesoldier845 Posted September 5, 2005 Posted September 5, 2005 I made a couple of movies at home using Microsoft Movie Maker and Fraps. I was quite happy with the results considering it was my first two movies but noticed a few issues. Also, I'm totally new to video making of any kind so I'm kinda lost as far as taking my movie making to the next level. First off, I love FRAPS, it's very easy to use but I'm losing some frames with it and it's hurting the quality of my movies. So what can I do to improve the capturing so I don't do lose frames? I've been capturing at 30fps should I try lowering it to 25fps or increasing it to 40fps?? Maybe I should try lowering my settings in LOCK-ON?? Also I have another issue with FRAPS and MS movie maker. I absolutely love the quality of the movies that FRAPS grabs. I mean the movies are almost as nice as the original - ALMOST. I'm quite happy with the FRAPS quality if I could get that same level of quality in my final product but I can't. I drag the movies into MS Movie Maker and when I render the final movie the quality is just SO-SO. I really could care less about file size to a certain point. I'm looking for quality and MS Movie Maker just compresses them too much. I even tried creating a custom profile and using larger bit rates like 4000kb a sec for video and still the quality is no where near what the original FRAPS movies are. Is it because the FRAPS movies are already compressed somewhat and when I recompress an already compressed movie it looks like crap? FWIW - I even exported as DV-AVI and still noticed degradation of the movie as compared to what FRAPS put out. So I tried Sony Vegas with FRAPS and even those clips when I rendered them with DivX still looked worse than the original FRAPS clips. So what gives?? I've read a few posts from you guys that are using the built in render AVI thing in LOMAC. I tried it and was impressed. But it is very slow. So what I really want to know is how can I get the best quality movies that look at least as good as what I could get with FRAPS?? That's the bottom line. If I use the built in render thing, which I really don't want to but might be forced to use is there a way I can break my tracks up so I don't have to render the entire track if all I need is a few seconds here and there? If I stick with FRAPS what program (i.e. Sony Vegas, Movie Maker, Premiere) should I use and what codec should I use so that I can retain at least the quality of the original FRAPS clips in my final product? Again, I don't care too much about file size to a certain point cause I want to eventually go straight to DVD and TV. thanks, I know it a lot of questions, but I'm learning this video stuff and still got a lot to learn. thank you for any help cheers
firesoldier845 Posted September 5, 2005 Author Posted September 5, 2005 Also, if I use the built in render AVI, which I am leaning towards using, is there a way to set it up so that I can only render small sections of the track - i.e. can you cut out track sections from the beginning or end and create a new track that only has a small part so I can do it in pieces or sections rather than rending the whole thing? Also, is it possible to rewind in the track or have a save point or something a long those lines? One other thing, I noticed that some of the missions I flew I set everthing to medium or low and then when I was getting ready to video edit I set everything back to high so that I could use the AVI program but everything got reset back to my original settings of medium or low. Is this is a bug or am I doing something wrong? or do I have to keep the scenes on HIGH for the original track and then can boost everything else up for the render? thanks again - i sure hope someone reads this forum cause I am eager to get started just need some help in getting in the right direction. cheers firesoldier845
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