Creating AVIs

[Pizzicato]

Hey guys,

 

I have a few of a noob questions about translating my tracks into Youtube-friendly formats and wondered if anyone here could help. Short version - I'm looking to figure out how best to encode the tracks and find the best balance between resolution and file size.

 

 

• I did a short 7 minute flight and encoded it to uncompressed AVI at the original resolution of 1920 x1200 at 75% quality and 25 fps, but it generated a 68Gb AVI. Obviously not what I need. :D
  
• I tried using the PNG option, but ended up with 10,000+ image files (which I really should have anticipated.
  
• Finally, I tried the Theora + Vorbis encoding, but it was taking ~2 seconds per frame which would have taken several days to complete.
  

 

All of that being said, could anyone step me through the simplest way to create a reasonable sized AVI for uploading?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Sabre-TLA]

I use FRAPS http://www.fraps.com/

 

It works very well to capture video of a track then I use MS Movie Maker to add titles and do editing.

 

You can view samples here: http://http://m.youtube.com/#/user/mapleflagmissions/videos?view=1&flow=grid&desktop_uri=%2Fuser%2Fmapleflagmissions%2Fvideos%3Fflow%3Dgrid%26view%3D1

[AMVI_Rider]

I'm not a big fan of FRAPS as I find it just too expensive to record a video. Looking around for a viable alternative I found this:

 

Open Broadcaster Software

 

Setup is a little bit tricky (in my rig), but works like a charm and it's free.

[Kameni]

I record with FRAPS, and then when I edit the video - export it to FLV (F4V). Still, if video is long you'll get like 100-300+ Mb files, but that is better than 5 gigs of uncompressed video to upload :D

[Corvus]

Personally I use VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org/) for video editing and encoding with Xvid codec (http://www.xvid.org/). Both are free. You can get nice movies with decent quality. Just load your AVI file to virtualdub, in video options set up compression to xvid, save it and you are ready to upload.