[Dares]

Hi there, I would like to know the music that is inside Lore's vedio.
For example:
Ulduar Kologarn

Much thanks

[Ta2punk]

I couldn't find the song you used on the 25man Yogg Saron video on neosounds.com. Could you clarify the name of the track you used, i would love to download it. thanks

[BWarner]

Question, Cider, if you will. I recently got the notion in my mind that I'd like to start recording some of my Warcraft going-ons. I do notice that you recommend playing in the video setting you wish to have the end product shown as. Would it not be possible to play, say, at 1920x1200, and then in processing drop the size down to, say, 720?

[Khasar]

yes please I'm also wanting to know what music track you used...can't find it anywhere on that site =(

[Coldbear]

Recording on a Mac is very viable option if you have a fair amount of cash to blow - the Mac WoW client comes with built-in recording options that are very robust, supported by Blizzard and completely native to the client.

Editing options then become a little more narrow - Final Cut Express and Pro/Studio - but this is very much offset by the ability to record natively without recording the UI. Essentially you play the game as normal, but the film doesn't show the UI.

This last part is the primary reason I went with an iMac and 4GB of extra RAM for my huge 1h 33min PVE video released last month. While I'm not terribly happy with all that I've been forced to relearn after switching to a Mac, the filming aspect was a godsend - enabling me to create an almost completely cinematic experience while playing the game just normally with my ugly UI.

[Sitar]

Hi Ciderhelm,

I'm a huge fan of your videos and this forum and i wondered if you could explain how you render your videos with Sony Vegas, what is the option you choose when rendering ?

Thanks a lot

[Ring0]

Hey Cider,

I have been making movies for a while and was wondering like the previous poster if you could explain which settings and codec do you use to render in Vegas. Although my movies look pretty nice they don't quite have the shinyness of your Project Marmot movies. I am using the in-game WoW settings stated in the first post.

I am using a .mp4 (MainConcept under Vegas) codec with a custom template of 1280x720, 30 FPS, constant bit rate of 4k. Rendering quality set at best and progressive scan of course.

Sample of a video I made last night with the above settings:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3-0lUgWJT8"]YouTube - 10-man Hodir Hard[/ame]

As you can see it doesn't "fill" the screen in HD setting, although the actual movie in my hard drive does play at high res.

Edit: A video I made today with changing to 1440x1080 resolution. The quality is noticeably better but there's still some 'fuzzyness' when compared to Project Marmot quality. Any tips?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS1YWsF6BSg]10-man Council Hard[/ame]

[Ellaytank]

Howdy,

Ellay here, I just thought I would put a little input on respect to recording locations. I run with 2 external 500 gb drives for general storage. I used to try and FRAPS directly to the externals and was getting like 14 FPS while recording. I just got my new computer with much better stats all around. I tried the same thing and was getting similar terrible performance While FRAPSing directly to them. Instead I tried FRAPSing directly to my main hard drive and got significantly better fram rates. So I would suggest anyone with a similar 1 Internal hard drive setup to FRAPS to the internals before you send it to the externals. You can always transfer the data afterward.

Ring0: what your probably seeing is the compression from 1440x1080 to 1280x720. Sinces its not a direct ratio your going to loose have some stretching (L:W, 1.33:1). Also note that through compression your going to see a loss of quality (ie fuzziness).

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu1X8H5dQJA"]YouTube - Quality Youtube Video[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5DrMbWpmSU"]YouTube - VoA - Emalon (25) - Kinetic of Maiev[/ame]


Are two videos I did on this same computer. One is with the settings that they suggested above (1280x720 Resolution) and the other is with my normal play settings (1440x900 Resolution). Compression affects the two differently depending on where they came from. I've noticed better video quality out of the settings they gave above. Just trying to help a fellow Frapser

[Silverhoof]

I've had many a problem finding the right codec and compression to use. I'm using virtual dub for some things, but other times it just fails and winds up with very chopping pixelated video. Should I be doing something specific to get it to compress down into high quality video? (My current raw file is 32GB, which is just fine, have plenty of space). Trying to make boss videos for my guild but can't seem to figure out the specifics.

[Hogie]

I have been recording the last few weeks in a 1080 resolution, then moving the fraps files to my network storage (gigabit network). I use Perian on my mac mini to allow me to use the fraps files directly in Final Cut Express.

Initial Loading of the files into FCE, and frame rendering (so you can preview it) takes a little longer, but I can use my networked storage for that instead of using the small drive in the mini (2.1TB of space compared to 30gigs free).

I have FCE output 1280x720 @ 6000 KBps as h.264, which gives me pretty nice HD video on Youtube when uploaded.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK4o5yxGp3w"]YouTube - Dancing in Naxx after a wipe[/ame]

This was recorded on a PC, then edited on a mac

[Bragoon]

It seems my graphics card is not able to run 1280x700.
Geforce 8800 gts 512, and it seems any videos I run turn out with terrible quality.
Halp?

[Szentia]

Run Fraps at the same resolution you game with or divide it by 2 so there is no pixel division.
Try a recording framerate of 25fps.
Fraps stresses the hard disk and CPU more than anything else, so make sure you use the fastest disk in your PC.

[Parabellum]

First of all, sorry for my very bad english :P

The question is about settings to export video in Sony vegas 9. I can get nice quality videos in 1440x900 res, but i see the tankspot videos and their work is awesome.

Someone can help me with it? i want to know the setting are used to export the videos of tankspot.