[Cameryn]

Thanks for the response guys.

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Originally Posted by [HLF]Southclaw I'f you're doing rather long videos and not too bothered about pixel perfect quality (explanation below), I'd avoid fraps if it takes that long. Fraps doesn't compress it's video at all it is all 'as you see it' quality (pixel perfect) this is great for competitive gameplay if you want to look back at small details etc. However If you're going to upload in 720p (which is a nice balance between quality and filesize/upload time) I would advise choosing some different software. This is unfortunate as Fraps costs Ј23 and if you're going for different software, that's pretty much wasted (I made this mistake!) The alternative that I would recommend is Dxtory, it's actually a bit cheaper than Fraps (~Ј21 depending on the GBP-JPY exchange rate) but packs in a whole bunch of features. You can change the codec and compression that your videos are recorded in so the output file is much smaller than Fraps. You can also set up different audio sources for different audio channels in the output video, which means you can have your voice, the game audio and any of your teamspeak friends on different channels so when you bring the clips into your editing software of choice, you can alter the volume of each channel (turn the game sound down and your voices up for example.) One other alternative if you want to keep using Fraps is to convert the video before editing it. In my experience, my editing software can be a bit laggy with the full-quality Fraps output. I convert the raw video clips to h.264 first then edit them as it makes the process a whole lot easier! Anyway, I never expected to write that much and I just woke up! Hope that helps

I am using Handbrake to convert it to h.264 but I found it to be more time-consuming. A 20 minutes video takes like 15 minutes to convert. Then, when rendering it takes about 10 mins. Which is like 5 more minutes than the original. I think I am doing something wrong. Will virtual dub make it faster or something?