Is there any way to record in higher than 30 fps in FRAPS?
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If you're planning on uploading it to a site like YouTube, there isn't any use in making it more than 24 FPS.
YouTube is capped at 24 FPS for every video.
[QUOTE=whatnow V2;20435718]you have to have a fast hard drive, and fast RAM & lots of it as far as I know. I don't have a problem getting 50+ FPS with FRAPS on my system after a hard drive upgrade[/QUOTE]
ssd?
that didn't make much of a difference for me.. mostly you need a somewhat fast HDD with lots of cache and make sure it's not your game HDD
So it can save the raw data to the drive faster? or what?
[QUOTE=G-Strogg;20438495]So it can save the raw data to the drive faster? or what?[/QUOTE]
i guess, if you've ever used FRAPs, a 2-3 minute video (or more depending on the FPS) can be as big as 4GB. Do the math..
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[QUOTE=Odellus;20435481]Standard definition broadcasts are 24 FPS. Playback quality has nothing to do with your graphics card, and people record at full size because they want full size? What kind of stupid argument is that?[/QUOTE]
Standard definition is 480i60 or 576i50. Playback quality does have to do with your video card, to an extent.
[QUOTE=johanz;20435148]Fraps uses cpu and not gpu to capture video.[/QUOTE]
It uses both. GPU does actually help. I can't explain it. But I went from a 7800GT to a 4870 and tripled my recording framerates.
[QUOTE=Neckbeard;20437573]If you're planning on uploading it to a site like YouTube, there isn't any use in making it more than 24 FPS.
YouTube is capped at 24 FPS for every video.[/QUOTE]
Youtube is capped at 30.000frames per second for every resolution. I don't know where you got that info. Besides, speed changes in editing require a higher framerate for smoother visuals.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;20441226]Standard definition is 480i60 or 576i50. Playback quality does have to do with your video card, to an extent.
It uses both. GPU does actually help. I can't explain it. But I went from a 7800GT to a 4870 and tripled my recording framerates.
Youtube is capped at 30.000frames per second for every resolution. I don't know where you got that info. Besides, speed changes in editing require a higher framerate for smoother visuals.[/QUOTE]
Standard definition is not 60 FPS or 50 FPS, no, playback quality has nothing to do with your graphics card at all.
Dunno where you're pulling this shit from.
24 fps or whata ever or a 29.97 fps (NTSC) or pal shit
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odellus did you remove me i hope not
[QUOTE=whatnow V2;20441815]24 fps or whata ever or a 29.97 fps (NTSC) or pal shit
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odellus did you remove me i hope not[/QUOTE]
Yeah I think I did.
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[QUOTE=Odellus;20441644]Standard definition is not 60 FPS or 50 FPS, no, playback quality has nothing to do with your graphics card at all.
Dunno where you're pulling this shit from.[/QUOTE]
NTSC 480i is 60 scans per second. PAL 576i is 50 scans per second. Can't really say frames when your only getting every other line per scan.
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Also your GPU could have something to do with video quality, if its remarkably ancient (try 10+ years old).
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Of course if your using a GPU that old, your CPU also is the problem. :downs:
If you wanted to see where you record at higher fps, I made a picture [img]http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7403/igig.png[/img]
You can also record at a specified fps, say you have 120 in CS:S, and you want to do some slow motion stuff or w/e you could set the fps to that and then edit the video once finished and it wouldn't be as choppy as if you used 30 fps.
Update Fraps to 3.1.1, it's much faster.
Add motion blur (not duplicated frames but high quality calculated blur, you can do it in after effects) and you will get smooth video.
Movies in cinema are in 24 fps and they are smooth because they have motion blur (created by using proper shutter speed), in games you don't have REAL motion blur so the motion always will be sloppy and strobing without editing. However in lower resolutions this effect is not so significant.
And try be compliant to standards and record in 24/25/30 fps. (24 - cinema, 25 - European PAL, 30 - American NTSC), because you will have to make final video in such framerate. Converting framerates is very big problem because some frames will be dropped some duplicated etc. Unless you do it in after effects but it takes very long.
Source recorder is best solution for recording.
You could also try fps_max in console, needs sv_cheats 1 iirc.
[QUOTE=Legend286;20454019]You could also try fps_max in console, needs sv_cheats 1 iirc.[/QUOTE]
not it doesn't.
but it doesn't matter, you still need to have FRAPS fps set to 30.. if your FPS max in game is set to 30, and the max in FRAPs is 60, then it'll just record 30 FPS along with uh... the other 30 missing frames or something.
[QUOTE=whatnow V2;20435718]you have to have a fast hard drive, and fast RAM & lots of it as far as I know. I don't have a problem getting 50+ FPS with FRAPS on my system after a hard drive upgrade[/QUOTE]
With fast hard drive do you refer to something like WD Caviar Black? Or 10K rpm drives?
[QUOTE=whatnow V2;20454931]not it doesn't.
but it doesn't matter, you still need to have FRAPS fps set to 30.. if your FPS max in game is set to 30, and the max in FRAPs is 60, then it'll just record 30 FPS along with uh... the other 30 missing frames or something.[/QUOTE]
Acutally, it'll record each frame twice (mind you this is when game performance stays at 30 fps constantly)
This is very good for frag videos because you can make it half speed slow motion without doing finicky stuff, but since you're recording at a different rate from the game, you'll have to lay music on top of the footage.
[QUOTE=thf;20476461]With fast hard drive do you refer to something like WD Caviar Black? Or 10K rpm drives?[/QUOTE]
no, just a 7200 RPM with a good amount of cache (16+?)
my SSD made no difference.. I think the problem is writing the video to a hard drive you are using. Just use a inactive hard drive (that's 7200RPM and 16mb+ cache) and it should be fine
[QUOTE=Odellus;20441644]Standard definition is not 60 FPS or 50 FPS, no, playback quality has nothing to do with your graphics card at all.
Dunno where you're pulling this shit from.[/QUOTE]
Standard definition is interlaced, therefore it's running at double framerate when interpreted. Might not be a full resolution 720x480 frame, but when it's shown on the screen, it's still a frame.
if you're running hardware acceleration, playback quality can be affected by the GPU, it can do enhancements along with accelerated deblocking.
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