My-First-LFS-video

[Seany]

ok, I made a short vid and heres the link (got the idea from a V8 Super cars race I saw)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IK5QMKO5  there is one pop up ad...sorry :/

I use VLC media player to play all my vids so use that:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

(encoded with Xvid)

Problems:

Firstly, the video is less than 2 minutes but it is 74mb, I had a lot of trouble trying to get it to play back smoothly after encoding, I'm still not happy with it and I'm hoping I can get some help with that. :g:

Secondly, turns out mega upload sucks unless your registered, I get a max download speed of 20k :taz:. Maybe you guys might get a faster speed or know of some other hosting site I could try, thats free

thanks

[Aquilifer]

Hey, nice one

About the problems....
- I read the best practise is to lower the speed of the replay to half of the speed you intend show it in the film (e.g film 0.5 speed -> replay 0.25 speed when frapsing). And then using half of the film fps in capturing (e.g 30fps film->15fps capture). Then just double the fps in the editing software to get the video speed correct. That should stress the computer less and allow smoother playing. Did you do this?

Can't think any other reasons why it flickered a bit.

No idea about hosting sites. I got 35-40k when dowloaded it. Have you checked the youtube hi-res vid quality? :g: You would get lot more audience there

[Seany]

I captured it at half speed in LFS @ 60fps, then time stretched some bits I wanted to make slower in adobe premier. I had to render and encode it @ 60fps also or else it looked even more choppy, that probably accounts for the large file size.
I always find the whole capturing, frames per second confusing :g: . For some reason I always thought it was best to capture at as high FPS as possible then slow it down in the editor.

Ill give what you suggest a test to see how it turns out.  cheers for the advice

ill give you tube a try too, I think they make you resize the video though?

[Jamin]

Took five mins to download this morning, the jumping is frames being dropped somewhere in your proccess chain due to the largeness of the file, also you have interlaced on, so every two frames are in reverse order.

Telly runs at 25 FPS, aim for about about 10mb per min for the final compress.

http://www.videohelp.com/ helped me.

[Aquilifer]

There are good instructions here in LFS forum.

I think you also should limit the fps in LFS. I think it creates problems if you try to capture e.g 30 fps, but the true fps in game goes up and down between say 15-70fps. That could be one reason to see small jumps. I think the game fps should as constant as possible to the video fps. (Fraps captures a frame when the time 1/fps sec is past and the full frame is drawn? So I guess if you cannot keep the fps rating in game the frame interval could be actually larger than you intended. E.g if the game fps dropped to 15fps (but you capture 30fps), it  could be that the frames has twice as big time difference than intended? Or it could be that fraps makes 2 identical frames). That might create some 'jumps' :g:

Yep telly is 25fps, but dunno if that should limit you. I don't know if so many are watching it any other than monitor.