Best method of optimisation

[Ding]

I want to enter in the ofpec compertition, i know how to make good cutscenes and everything but my problem is recording it, i have a registered version of fraps, so i want to use that program, but when i record a video, even if i have it on its lowest settings of framerate, and size, a few seconds is well over 10mb big!

is there any way of optomising this further

[LoTekK]

As stated in the FRAPS readme/faq, the app saves the videos in completely uncompressed format. To compress the videos, you'll need an external video editing app. The easiest one to use, if you don't have any sort of heavy editing work to do (cutting, timing, etc), is Virtual Dub. It also happens to be free. You might want to look around for various codecs to figure out which gives the best quality/compression ratio. I typically like XVID, but the recent WMV codecs are pretty impressive as well.

[Ding]

thanks i'll give it ago, i already tried Windows movie maker and Microsoft Premiere, neither would open the AVI file though. so i'll try virtual dub

[Morglor9]

Microsoft Premiere? I think you mean Adobe, but whatever. Strange that it wouldn't open the AVI, because that's what I use for my Fraps stuff.

[dmakatra]

Since it's a Fraps video it's probably big. Adobe Premiere Pro doesn't like large avi files. In fact, it can't import anything above like, 800 or so MB. I have no idea about Movie Maker though, but it's a Microsoft product so what did you expect? ;D