[pudgypaw]Test Video...

pudgypaw

Technically speaking I have never uploaded a video of me gaming in my life before. I was always lazy but decided to give it a try right now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUx6S7AkSRI

Putting content aside, is there any comments or suggestions?

I instructed my video card to use a mode called scaled resolutions. So even on my 23" widescreen panel CF runs in letterbox 4:3, scaled to the right proportion so I don't get pixellations.

Normal FPS hovers around 180 but FRAPS forces the frame rate to what it's recording at (in this case 60FPS, 100FPS is nice but file size is too big for editors to process, will start skipping).

Now to get it into a format editors can recognize. Instead of using the traditional Virtual Dub I used SUPER converter. Because I don't want to compress the video more than once and SUPER will leave the video stream alone. So first I extracted the audio and turned it from PCM to MP3. Then I Muxed the Fraps video and the MP3 stream together. This can get annoying with large numbers of video but right now it's just one..

For editing I used Adobe Premiere CS4. Threw some text in and was surprised the text didn't ruin the video like divx did in the past. When I exported it had some nice profiles including facebook/myspace/youtube SD and YoutubeHD. I chose Youtube HD and it produced a video with black bars on the sides. Currently trying to kill that...

Ironically all my media players crash when I play it. But when I upload it to Youtube, I can see all of it just fine...

ok so any thoughts??

((STYX))

PUDGY!!! wut up ~

pudgypaw

((STYX)) wrote: »

PUDGY!!! wut up ~

what's up west coaster! lol

And I checked other CF videos, especially the ones in HD. Is it just me or is my video more sharp/clear??

brandoooo

lol i like how the video says test on it like 3 times XD

ChaosWrath

The visual quality is good and the audio is perfectly in sync with the video, but the audio does seem to be a bit weak and tinny. Is that just me?

BlindEvil

The audio does seem a bit low quality. Better than anything I've got (soundcard doesn't support recording at all).
Video was great though.

capnemo

I like it, I like the sound too sounds good. Pudgy we have to play together sometime i remember back in the day we played a game or two now i cant find you lol

lulzwut

Nice quality.

zzToxiixczz

Good test pretty nice quality what program do you use?

ArchSonic

Nice quality, shame my computer would never produce videos that well.

pudgypaw

ChaosWrath wrote: »

The visual quality is good and the audio is perfectly in sync with the video, but the audio does seem to be a bit weak and tinny. Is that just me?

You're right, because I first converted audio from PCM (Fraps) to MP3 (for editing), then to ACC (YouTubeHD). The video only went from AVI(Fraps) to H.264(YouTubeHD). Every time you convert, you run through a compression algorithm that throws out info in order to knock down file size. You should only limit compression to one time to prevent overkilling your material and making pixels/artifacts.

Paintkilla wrote: »

I like it, I like the sound too sounds good. Pudgy we have to play together sometime i remember back in the day we played a game or two now i cant find you lol

Since I live in California I'm always on WestCoast Server usually Channel1. Unless there there are no S&D maps, lol.

zzToxiixczz wrote: »

Good test pretty nice quality what program do you use?

Fraps, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

This morning I got a hold of an updated Fraps (2.9.9) and they fixed the audio bug, so I don't have to run it through VirtualDub or SUPERConverter first! I'm now slapping random music with a game I played this morning, and i made 3 versions:

YouTube SD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv0rgl3Ehfs
YouTube SD Widescreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHIw0vMbNL0
YouTube HD Widescreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGBQvUBoId4

HD seems to be Widescreen by definition... OK so tell me which one's better..

ChaosWrath

SD or SD Widescreens seem to be better than HD Widescreen.

The first test video seemed like it had better quality than all of these.

pudgypaw

ChaosWrath wrote: »

SD or SD Widescreens seem to be better than HD Widescreen.

The first test video seemed like it had better quality than all of these.

actually, HD video took a while to process and before it's done it's more blurry than SD, at THIS moment in time all the videos are ready to be watched...

oh.. and it seems any music pulled into my editor comes out of the right ear only, i need to fix that...

ChaosWrath

pudgypaw wrote: »

actually, HD video took a while to process and before it's done it's more blurry than SD, at THIS moment in time all the videos are ready to be watched...

oh.. and it seems any music pulled into my editor comes out of the right ear only, i need to fix that...

Yep, after processing the HD video looks the best.

The music works in both ears for me