fraps Reducing Video Size in FRAPS

[KDStudios]

Hey there,
This is for all you people who use fraps and would like to know of a way to reduce it's size for editing.
We've all been there.
Recorded a video that is about 2 minutes long only to see its about 940MB (Possibly over exaggerated but is still huge)

There are a million and one programs that you can use to reduce it's size.

You could do it with Microsofts very own Windows Movie Maker
Or Sony Vegas 9
Or any form of video converter. Eg. AVI to MPEG WMV MP4 etc

I personally use Sony Vegas but that costs money and if you want to do it free (But with much quality loss) use Windows Movie Maker.
You can use the internet to find free programs but these are rare and half the time are just demo's that you have to pay for after 30 days.


Hopefully if anyone else posts what programs they use you can use them also.


On my old computer I used to use a program called FLV to AVI MPEG WMV MP4 Converter by Aone or Anone (Can't remember) but since the computer died haven't been able to find it since)
It was handy with many different settings from 1080p to the 360p youtube uses.
Not sure if it's still around but its the only one that I remember having.

After a quick google search I came up with this on the first link:
http://www.grrr.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62:tips-fraps&catid=41:win-tips&Itemid=67

There are plenty of programs out there.
But if you have issues simply post here and refere to what everyone else uses =)

Happy movie making!

[JimboUK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJtZJ5WnWK4

 

How to compress FRAPS & other .AVI files with VirtualDub

 

(Not my video)

[Olurum]

If you're aiming for HD quality videos when using VirtualDub then you can download the x264 vfw codec from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/files/

 

It will now appear in your list of codecs to choose from when selecting the 'compression' option in VirtualDub. I'm pretty sure I left all the settings at their default (you can slide the quality bar around a bit to experiment though).

 

Example video of how the quality looks on youtube (this was a 277MB file for 10 minutes worth of video @30fps):

 

But remember to record in either 1280x720 or 1920x1080/1920x1200 to get the 720p/1080p options to show up in youtube. I use 720p instead of 1920x1200 because the extra increase in filesize doesn't seem worth it to me.

 

Please note that the popular program 'malwarebytes' used to report the installer as a 'rogue installer', this is a false positive: http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=58800. It has since been fixed though. Just thought I'd mention that (even though it might scare people off from using it) just incase someone hadn't updated their definitions in a while.

[blesshealth]

I use iDealshare VideoGo to compress video file size by changing the video format, bitrates, resolution etc method.