How to make videos?
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Hi just need some advice on how to make videos such as the ones posted on utube for tutorial and training purposes. I heard about fraps. But some people say it eats up a lot of resources and make frame rate go down. Any other tips or suggestions? I have never made any videos before.
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fraps. or if u have recent 6xx series nvidia card it has an option to record.
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Tell us what PC specs you have then, especially graphics card, display resolution, hard/ssd drive specs & space.
There are different options depending on the above.
Best quality is FRAPS but it eats drive space. You then have to encode it with Handbrake (best quality and smallest file size for uploading) but that will max out your CPU while it’s doing it. Then and only then can you upload to YouTube.
There are other options, which can compress on the fly and faster methods of encoding (using the graphics card) but the quality is nowhere near as good and the filesize for uploading is larger.
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Just test to see if it shows up correctly.
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Another option which worked quite well (when I had a GTX 580) was MSI Afterburner. Not as good an end result as FRAPS>Handbrake, but it’s free. Plenty of YouTube tutorials to get an idea of the best settings to use as we still don’t know your display resolution.
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nvidia 750 has an option in Nvidia Geforce experience called ShadowPlay take a look at it. U don’t need any program like fraps or whatever.
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Pandacat. Fraps is good, OBS (Open Broadcast Software) is better.
to read some talk about Vegas settings and stuff …. and to watch a good video done by Demo from 1st VFS
I use Vegas 12 Pro on the default YouTube render setting to get it ready for YouTube.
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Another option which worked quite well (when I had a GTX 580) was MSI Afterburner. Not as good an end result as FRAPS>Handbrake, but it’s free. Plenty of YouTube tutorials to get an idea of the best settings to use as we still don’t know your display resolution.
Hi Darkman. I read about Handbrake and have used it as an intermediate between OBS and Vegas12 with the final video quality being perfect. But the audio was bad. I could not figure out what was wrong. Could you share your sequence and settings used?
I have viewed many tutorials on Sony Vegas 12 Pro with Handbrake and they all differ. Any tested settings are welcome. -
I use OBS (https://obsproject.com/) to record which worked out for me and is not that much CPU consuming as other tools.
At least on my rig.MSI afterburner was quite a FPS loss.
I do even record multiplayer campaigns without that much FPS hit with OBS.
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I’ve tried all kinds of settings to compare filesize, quality etc and the one that works best for me (with minimal effort) is just to click on ‘High Profile’ on the right side. Caveat here is that I don’t use Vegas, I just go FRAPS > Handbrake > YouTube.
I tried OBS (on several different settings) and the quality was absolutely shocking. The fact that others are happy with it just goes to show that it’s always best to just try it yourself and see how your PC reacts. MSI Afterburner was definitely better for me when I had an nVidia card; I’ve had problems with it and my AMD card, so don’t use it anymore.
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guys sorry but OBS captures only black screen. is there a special setting?
I tried monitor source and game source and with hotkey…In game mode it records the Falcon UI but when it goes to 3d just black screen.
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guys sorry but OBS captures only black screen. is there a special setting?
I tried monitor source and game source and with hotkey…In game mode it records the Falcon UI but when it goes to 3d just black screen.
Got mine working with ‘Monitor Capture’ as source. Not as game mode.
For me it’s as good or better than FRAPs + HandBrake.
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What about bandicam? Is that something worth trying?
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I found that nothing maintains the quality as well as FRAPs. Huge files though… Tried Bandicam and OBS and noticed a small (but noticeable) hit to quality. However, I’m not as savvy on the settings so that could be it.
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I found that nothing maintains the quality as well as FRAPs. Huge files though… Tried Bandicam and OBS and noticed a small (but noticeable) hit to quality. However, I’m not as savvy on the settings so that could be it.
My problem isn’t the initial quality …. it’s the quality after upload to YouTube. Some (freeware) programs just ruin FRAPs footage when you convert to a more upload friendly format (AVI to Mp4, say). It looks like OBS maintains it’s quality during the upload.
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Got mine working with ‘Monitor Capture’ as source. Not as game mode.
For me it’s as good or better than FRAPs + HandBrake.
I assume you’re running Windoze 8/8.1 then as Monitor Capture performs poorly in Win 7?
Though I note that there may be a fix on the horizon: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/fast-monitor-capture-with-aero-enabled-on-windows-vista-7.58/
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I assume you’re running Windoze 8/8.1 then as Monitor Capture performs poorly in Win 7?
Though I note that there may be a fix on the horizon: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/fast-monitor-capture-with-aero-enabled-on-windows-vista-7.58/
No, Win7 and ‘monitor capture’ was dropping frames. ‘Game Capture’ sometime only got 1/4 of the screen …. :rolleyes: . I might try this … although I might have found something to use to edit/re-encode FRAP’s so video is ‘YouTube friendly’.
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I tried OBS (on several different settings) and the quality was absolutely shocking. The fact that others are happy with it just goes to show that it’s always best to just try it yourself and see how your PC reacts. MSI Afterburner was definitely better for me when I had an nVidia card; I’ve had problems with it and my AMD card, so don’t use it anymore.
As for OBS, you need to raise the bitrate limit to about 10000. I use x264, no constant bit rate, max bitrate 10000.
As for the black screen: I added a new scene and then a new source, fired up bms and selected this as a game recording scene. I had to use the game setting iirc.
