WoW and FRAPS - Page 12

• Heavenly · 03/02/11, 3:54 PM

Originally Posted by Inquisition

Hey, I've been playing around with Sony Vegas 10 and fraps recently... got the coloring, rendering and uploading and everything else down. Just one thing, when I upload my vid

YouTube - vegas4

as you can see the 720p and 1080p options are available however doesn't make much of a difference, any ideas?

Try rendering/exporting the video at 1920x1072 before uploading to YouTube for the best quality.

Ybnvs · 03/06/11, 7:27 AM

I just got a new computer:

8GB DDR3 1600MHz
GeForce GTX 460 2GB Video Card
Intel i5 Quad core 3.0GHz

I have everything on Ultra and all options as high as they go with Vertical Sync off. I have no Max Foreground FPS and 50 max background FPS. I snag about 50-80 FPS with people running around Orgrimmar. I get upwards of 140 FPS in Arenas or low populated places and like 100 FPS in BGs.

I set Fraps (first time ever using) to Full Screen and 30 FPS. In arenas, my FPS drops from ~120 to ~60 when I record at 30 FPS. Are there any options in WoW or in Fraps that I can switch up to not get as much of a drop (Staying on Ultra)?

Right now I have 1 Hard Drive (1 TB) with 2 drives. When you are speaking of separating your Fraps and WoW Drives to increase performance, are you simply saying "Put WoW on C:/ and put Fraps on D:/" or on 2 physically separate Hard Drives? And if so, does it matter where I am saving the file to as it records?

Last thing, there is an option in Fraps to sync audio; I wan't to be able to separate audio from video (in cases where I would put music or something If I were to make a video) but also have it "synced" for when I want it as it sounded live. Also I want my voice recorded as well; is that the "input" option on Fraps?

Thanks for any help anyone could give to a new Fraps User.

sp00n · 03/08/11, 8:52 AM

You will get no benefit from going from 60 fps to 120. This is no first person shooter where you want to come up with some magical fps number. 60 is more than enough for about everything

When you say you have "1 drive with 2 drives" I assume you mean 2 partitions. To achieve best performance, it is advised to place the recording directory of Fraps (not the installation directory) to a physically separated disk.

As for the audio, leave the option as is. Your recording is already seperated in a video stream and an audio stream, both saved within the AVI container. Use any tool to edit them.
For recording your own voice, that's actually something I still haven't figured out. You can do it (but I have forgotten how by now and am not on my gaming PC), but you will be (or at least I was) recording everything your microphone listens to, instead of utilizing Teamspeak's/Ventrilo's push-to-talk or voice activation. You could however directly record voice through those programs and mux the different audio streams later on (which you wanted to do anyway according to your description).

If anybody knows of an easy way to record game audio + Ventrilo audio including your own voice, and with using push-to-talk, by all means, please share it. It like my own voice in my videos as well.

Zene · 03/17/11, 4:18 PM

Originally Posted by Inquisition

as you can see the 720p and 1080p options are available however doesn't make much of a difference, any ideas?

As was suggested try 1920x1072 this guy explains why this performs better quite well:

FRAPS, WoW, YouTube, and Encoding | HordePriest
Xav from Premonition also has a guide on how he does his HD videos:
How to optimize your video's playback in YouTube - Premonition :: Sen'jin (US)

Originally Posted by sp00n

For recording your own voice, that's actually something I still haven't figured out. You can do it (but I have forgotten how by now and am not on my gaming PC), but you will be (or at least I was) recording everything your microphone listens to, instead of utilizing Teamspeak's/Ventrilo's push-to-talk or voice activation. You could however directly record voice through those programs and mux the different audio streams later on (which you wanted to do anyway according to your description).

This is built into the latest version of Fraps. It joins the audio to one track still but it's supported. It can even be tied to a hotkey kind of like vent, so it only records your mic on top of the regular sound when you hit the key. Assuming you're a member you get free updates so just get the newest version:

FRAPS show fps, record video game movies, screen capture software

sp00n · 06/27/11, 8:30 AM

Quite a few, however from reading I haven't found one with a better performance than FRAPS. Or quality. Or both.

Bikiniwax · 06/27/11, 4:13 PM

This question was asked earlier in the thread but I didn't see an answer to it so I will ask again.

Running dual monitors: Main: (1900x1200 in windowed mode for WoW), Second: 1280x1024 on 2nd monitor for vent, browser, etc.

Would the latest version of Fraps allow me to record WoW on my main monitor (in windowed mode), while disregarding my secondary monitor?

sp00n · 06/28/11, 3:41 AM

Originally Posted by Bikiniwax

This question was asked earlier in the thread but I didn't see an answer to it so I will ask again.

Running dual monitors: Main: (1900x1200 in windowed mode for WoW), Second: 1280x1024 on 2nd monitor for vent, browser, etc.

Would the latest version of Fraps allow me to record WoW on my main monitor (in windowed mode), while disregarding my secondary monitor?

Of course, I've been never doing anything else, despite of the version. I do run WoW in windowed mode and manually maximize it (so that the task bar and menu bar is still visible).

Tufft · 06/30/11, 2:56 PM

I actually use the Newest Window Movie Maker to encode my WoW fraps....It's free and has decent enough features. The built in Youtube and other uploading devices are nice too.

Super Short Sample
YouTube - ‪My Movie‬&rlm;

cafiandra · 07/10/11, 3:36 PM

Originally Posted by Bikiniwax

This question was asked earlier in the thread but I didn't see an answer to it so I will ask again.

Running dual monitors: Main: (1900x1200 in windowed mode for WoW), Second: 1280x1024 on 2nd monitor for vent, browser, etc.

Would the latest version of Fraps allow me to record WoW on my main monitor (in windowed mode), while disregarding my secondary monitor?

Hey there, actually Fraps only records from your main monitor so it will disregard your 2nd attached monitor. So its cool, however some players complain that they would like to record both of their monitors screen, but that is not possible at the moment.

Hope it helps!

sp00n · 02/02/12, 4:57 PM

*necrothread*

I've noticed today that Fraps records with 650,000 kbps instead of the usual ~360,000 kbps on my PC after switchting to the 64 bit client of WoW.
I can't view the video files without lag now on my computer without encoding them.

quindo · 03/22/12, 7:04 PM

Originally Posted by goodr

I'm starting to regularly fraps fights to learn more about the fight as well as cleaning up my ui.

Anyway, what I wind up with is a ton of space-hogging fraps movies. I'd like to implement this workflow:
1) fraps freely
2) after the raid, add all the new raw videos to a queue to compress
3) delete the raw movies
4) upload them somewhere for archiving and later review

I am tentatively trying virtualdub to encode into h.264. Anyone else have suggestions for encoding software? How about for batch encoding? Anyone use any other software or automated workflows to keep this easy to maintain? My end goal is to click one button/run one batch file to take care of steps 2-4 after I'm done with my raid.

I need to start using a workflow like that. Right now I am dumping all of the raw footage to a external usb drive during recording to prevent my main drive from getting overworked.

As for batch encoding you might have the best luck looking for a CLI tool for handling the encoding. Any one click solution will probably cost a lot more then it would be worth.

sp00n · 04/20/12, 5:27 AM

Does anybody have any advice on live streaming? I can fraps just fine in 1920x1080, but live streaming just steals too much FPS to be able to raid comfortable.
I've tried it with VHScrCap and Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder 3.2, and on occasion I dropped down to 4 fps. Are there any best practices, settings or different tools I could try?

My available upload speed would be able to handle > 8000 kbps, which is way out of reach for my computer it seems.