Guide to Fraps and movie making!

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Are you one of those who wants to make a PvP-Movie, or record something in-game to show to your friends the next day?

Do you have problems with bad quality or space?

I'll try and explain how to record with Fraps and how to make a movie!

The movie used at the end, is not made by me.

Legend:
Blue: Important, read.
Orange: Steps, follow carefully.

Please download the cracked version of Fraps, here;
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/attach...build-6486.rar

When it comes to edit, I'm using Sony Vegas 6.0

You can download a 30-days trial of Sony Vegas;
Sony Creative Software - Downloads - Vegas 6

Before we're starting to record, I want you to use these settings in Fraps:



You might want to edit the F9 button, since it opens your bag in-game, which is quite annoying.

Read this, important messages:

If you got more than one hard drive, it is recommended that you use another to save the recorded video files on, this will, however increase your frame-per-second (FPS) while recording significantly.

When you are recording, please close all unnecessary programs running in the background, such as; MSN, Torrent, Web Browsers etc.
The reason why to, is that your movie can be a bit "shoppy" while watching the recorded file, even though it wasn't "shoppy" when playing.

When you record with Fraps, it is important that you run World of Warcraft in;

Resolution: 1152 x 864.

The reason is that; Fraps will automatically change to 640 x 480 while recording, there is no version of Fraps that can record higher than 1152 x 864 so far, due to the big file transfer in the background.

Usually when I record, I turn the in-game Gamma up, via Video Settings.
It is cool to have your video a bit brighter, especially in dark places, such as Black Temple, Shadowmoon Valley or battlegrounds.

When you have recorded enough clips or fights, you can start edit and put together your unfinished movie.

Now, when we are going to edit and export the movie, you need to open Sony Vegas (as I am using, as I stated above.)

When you are going to export the video, you'll get this window up;


Select Windows Media Player Video V9 (*.wmv) as your filetype, or .avi, it is kinda up to you.

Hit "Custom..."


Choose your video rendering quality, I usually go for "Good" however.

Choose 'Video' from the tab below and you'll get this video popping up;



Choose 'Custom' under 'Image size' and enter the resolution you used while recording, which is;1152 x 864. (As on the picture.)

Choose the same 'Frame rate (FPS)' you used in Fraps while recording.

'Pixel Aspect Ratio' should stand on 1.000

Choose 'Quality' to either 70, 72 or 75, it is up to you, however better quality, larger file size. If the movie is over 10 minutes long, choose 72 or beneath.

You are now done configuring your file, good job.

Here is a video of the settings used in the guide:

http://home.no/morenith/Quality.wmv

Hope you want to make a movie sometime, later!

Beerdude22!

[Turkeyham]

Nice guide; but whenever I record in Fraps when I play it back everything looks like a nice rainbow. Do you have any clue why?





EDIT: I'm a beast, nevermind about the rainbow thing. If that happens to anyone else you need to download the latest K-lite codecs.


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