Well I'm using Fraps Version 2.8.2 to capture my footage and after I'm done gathering my footage I'll press F9 to stop fraps and I'll review it in Windows Media Player and the first thing thats noticed is the major LAG in the movie and the sound is not accurate, meaning the movie is playing slower then the sound. I've tried different FPS in FRAPS but It seems like it got worse, and the sound is the same. I cant determine the problem and correct it but Hopefully someone on here can help me out a bunch. Should I have programs closed while I'm doing this or what?

Much help is needed Thanks- Mike

Did you look at the filesize? My fraps movies have like 200 MB for a couple of seconds. Thats why you need to edit them and compress them to a smaller filesize using something like DivX. When I try to watch those raw files I have the same problem you have. And you can solve it by editing them.

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Did you look at the filesize? My fraps movies have like 200 MB for a couple of seconds. Thats why you need to edit them and compress them to a smaller filesize using something like DivX. When I try to watch those raw files I have the same problem you have. And you can solve it by editing them.

Editing the movie? I have Ulead Video Studio 10 if thats what you mean. Or do I need to do something to the SPR file? I'm lost

Ok I just downloaded DivX, anything else?

I think everything is fine it's just that Fraps captures the game at no quality loss (you could put the video in full screen mode and you wouln't know if you're watching a video or the actual game being played). Which means huge video files that your computer just can't handle...at least not with windows media player where it tries to get the whole movie into the memory and display it at original size and quality but comes up short because of the huge ammounts of data needed to process.

Video editing programs do not playback the raw video at full size but only half/third/whatever-you-set size so you can preview what your video will look like. It's important to make a movie from those huge video files since the video effects will look nicer and it's easier to use some other tricks like motion tracking. Of course with this you get even more hardware hungry preview...but that is why it's only called a preview hehe.

I've fixed the problem but now Stuck on another one. I'll make a video and edit to my likeing and save the video and use DivX Converter to convert it to HIGH DEF but when I play the movie it's all distorted and looks pretty bad, I cant seem to understand why this is happening. During the editing process I'd replay it and it looks awesome but after I save it; it looks like shat I'm using Ulead Video Studios 10 to edit the movie. I'm kinda new to this video making stuff. If some one can help me out I apperciate it alot.

By the way I have a GeForce 7300 LE NVIDIA Graphics Card

PCI Express x16
Dedicated memory 128MB
Total Memory 256MB
512 MB of RAM

oh yay, Tubocache!

Try turning down the resolution in LFS and Fraps as your placing a HUGE demand on your PC

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oh yay, Tubocache!

Try turning down the resolution in LFS and Fraps as your placing a HUGE demand on your PC

Where Do i turn down the resolution at in fraps and LFS? And whats ideal for my specs?

i would go for 640*480 simply because thats what most videos are recorded at

go LFS>Options>Screen>640*480, and in fraps select "Full Size Recording"

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i would go for 640*480 simply because thats what most videos are recorded at

go LFS>Options>Screen>640*480, and in fraps select "Full Size Recording"

I did that and WoW all the cars looked horrible and the typing as well. I tried it both in 16 bit and 32bit bot looked the same.

If you want to render a decent video without fractals and such, make sure that you increase the bitrate. How many MB per second should the video have. Less MB results in bad quality. More MB results in fine quality but also in a bigger filesize. You should think about it before you render. For example if you want to upload your movie to a filehost that allows the files not to be larger than 100MB, you check the length of your movie and calculate the maximum bitrate possible for best quality @ 100MB.

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If you want to render a decent video without fractals and such, make sure that you increase the bitrate. How many MB per second should the video have. Less MB results in bad quality. More MB results in fine quality but also in a bigger filesize. You should think about it before you render. For example if you want to upload your movie to a filehost that allows the files not to be larger than 100MB, you check the length of your movie and calculate the maximum bitrate possible for best quality @ 100MB.

Well right now my video is 0.99GB and I cant uploan the video no where, as far as checking bitrate I have no clue on how to do that.

Maybe you should learn at least the basics of video before you start making movies? Google is your friend.

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Maybe you should learn at least the basics of video before you start making movies? Google is your friend.

I'll remember this........