Lo.

I have made a little in game video with "Fraps".
Time: 0:01:23 [Length of video]
Resolution: 1024x768
File Size: 502 MB

The video is in "avi" format.

Are these file sizes normal?

Fraps has that problem. Open the video in Windows Movie Maker (should come with XP) and save the file as a wmv file. It should be alot smaller that way.

Yes, due to the tremendous rate the frame capturing software runs at in order to capture all data.
As you have discovered recording a complete match can run into Gigs of data.
To resolve this pass it through one of the many availible video converters, I'm pretty sure Tmpgenc works from default.
Convert it to mpeg, this 'dramatically' reduces filesize and if you want to keep .avi format just pass the mpeg back through again, it is pretty fast.
For example, an entire match will reduce to just a few MB's.

Regards

Steve

Thanks for responding.

Did use "Windows Movie Maker" and exported it
as an wmv file.

File size only 7MB.



Thanks very much.



Will try "Tmpgenc" converter also.

Download for others who read this:

http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html

Thanks all for responding.



edited on Sep. 6, 2005 05:16 am by map_designer

Yeh a make alot on CoD movies, and have always had trouble with video size, i always record what i want then compress it with Blaze Media Pro to a .avi file (dont loss any quailty that way) then edit my moive, and when it's done i'll do whole movie as a .wmv. Also try and keep your recording FPS lower if you dont want great detail, i record at 100fps if i want great detail and i get like 2Gb video for about 2 mins footage.

E3|Raraavis writes...

Nice to know.



Any experience how to handle brightness?
Adjust it in "Call of Duty" settings or is there another way also.

Thanks for mentioning about "Blaze Media Pro".
Will get me the trial first.

Brightness can be easily adjusted in Windows Movie Maker or any other movie editing program.

Yeh if you dont want to change brightness in-game there are alot of video editing programs that'll edit the brightness, generaly i never edit the brightness, but it depends what your doing for for i guess.

Lo.

My game video settings of Call of Duty are standard and i have only changed the screen resolution to 1024x768.

When i have captured video with fraps i noticed that
the video seems to be a bit darker then in game.

Actually i want to make video's of my map project which
i am going to start.

And make video's both how i work in radiant and that
during the mapping proces i can show how the results look
in game.

This is what i want to try to accomplish.