xenophon

I'm trying to capture replays of ghost recon and use the clips for a video. I have tried fraps, hypercam and unlead and the videos come out very choppy. Does anyone know a good way of capturing these replays on to video?
I'm also working in adobe premire.
{E]Xenophon

Magnum50

Whats your system specs... need to be high end machine to capture well.

I make game movies all the time, I use fraps 2.2, I watch the replays (in GR too) and record what I want then use my editor...

but if that don't work because machine not powerful enough, only other option is to have a video card that also has a s video output, and contect a vcr, dvd recorder, or camcorder to the s video output, record then reload in editing software.

good luck

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Fraps 2 is a great video recording app and it records sound too. Setting the recording framerate to 15 will help but 20 is much smoother. Be sure to lower the resolution of the game to 640x480 or 800x600. You wouldn't want to record any higher because the data can't be written to disk fast enough. Plus, the final video's resolution should be about 640x480 to keep file sizes down. I've seen some decent recordings with video-out but a VCR recording will be horrible.

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Xenophon, try lowering your in-game visual settings quite a bit if you're getting choppy Fraps recordings. I can usually play medium-high settings, but when I run Fraps everything has to go to low settings for me to get useable framerates.

xenophon

Hey Guys
I tried lowering all the graphics and recording at a lesser frame rate and its looks sweet now...Fraps is working!....so now I have video for the movie, I'm PUMPED! I really appreciate everyones advise on this. We were about ready to give up
thanks Tactical Gamer ....woo hoo, i'm fired up. TTYL

*{E}Xenophon

xenophon

Hey Guys,

Thanks for your help. It is alot better but still getting some chop. To much to use if I cant get rid of it.
The Computor is a P4 2.26
1 Gig of ram
NVIDEA GeForce 4 Ti 4400 video card

I dont have a s video out

I put all video settings on low or none in game
I lowered resolution to 640x480 and then tried 800x600
I tried frame rate at 15 and at 20.

I am capturing in FRAPS.

Do you have any other ideas

Thank you very much

*{E}Xenophon

Magnum50

well good system, so shouldn't be too many problems...
Only thing I could suggust is if you have 2 hard drives and/or two partitions on one hard drive... if so, you should always save the fraps captures onto the hard drive that don't use too many resourses, or the hard drive that don't have the game... the hard drive is the most important hardware for video editing, so any video editor should try and have two drives, (I have three, lol).

Just to let you know:
I have a P4-2.0, 2 gigs of DDR RAM, Raedon 9800 XT w/256 video RAM, three hard drives... one for windows and office type programs, one for games, and one for video editing/back up storage.
I use fraps... and get pretty good framerates during capture... a couple videos are on my web site (www.magnumforce.us) for an example.

good luck

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There's a recording setting in Fraps for Half-Size. Try that instead of Full Size and see if it helps. Of course, the quality of the recording will be lower.

Also, is this choppiness coming from previewing it in Premiere? It might be the Premiere causing the choppiness while playing it back. There might be a setting to reduce the preview quality because your processor might not be able to keep up with any effects used.

Is this recording from 15 FPS? You might be really sensitive to framerates and it could look choppy. Your best option is to follow Magnum's advice so you can record at higher framerates.

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