Pandur Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 i asked this befor many moons ago but only got some sub optimal answers. by now, i have about 2,5 to 3,5 Gb of raw unedited FRAPS footage stored on my PC to make some nice clip collection of CMSF to up it at youtube. but whats the best way to get the raw fraps stuff wich is good quality but much to large, into decent quality but much smaler? also i want to edit the sequences and clips together into one or two big videos, and maybe add some text to the video, like seen in some other CMSF vids on youtube. i have no idea on how to do such stuff so i would need a programm wich is freeto download, easy to use and understand, and can do the things i require, like cuting pices of clips together and maybe play background music into it and add text. any suggestions what would be best for this task? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clavicula_Nox Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Use Windows Movie Maker, it's located in C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker then import the video files, and edit from there. The video that the program puts out is reduced in quality, but also considerably smaller. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandur Posted May 29, 2009 Author Share Posted May 29, 2009 it's located in C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker aha so i have it without knowing it, heck this makes me look incompetent, many thanks for that just took a look, its really there, hell, win movie maker, well better then a rock smashed onto the head we would say here, i gona try it out, thanks for the fast help! by the way are there any alternatives? will win movie maker let me put different clips together into one too? if yes it looks like this win movie maker is all i gona need. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clavicula_Nox Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Yeah, windows movie maker can do alot. I don't know about inserting text onto the screen, but I'm sure there's a way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandur Posted July 9, 2009 Author Share Posted July 9, 2009 i need some advice again, by now the amount of raw vid data did grow to more then 100GB. i think about a way to store all this without loosing quality. now i dont know, when i add one of this large movies to win movie maker and save it i can use a compression, wich makes the vid considearable smaler. what puzzles me now is that, when i would save all raw data i have in such a way to make it smaler, and then at a later point want to use this to make a movie, would this mean that the end product is even worse then the source as i compress it "twice" that way? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocal Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 would this mean that the end product is even worse then the source as i compress it "twice" that way? Yes. Personally, I have a couple of 500GB external drives laying around I use to store all this kind of stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scipio Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Yes. Personally, I have a couple of 500GB external drives laying around I use to store all this kind of stuff. Not necessarily, it strongly depends on the output format (codec) and bitrate (compression)! So if you do not furtherly reduce the bitrate, the result doesn't lose additional quality. But seriously, movie compression is a sience of it's own ! If you won't go deep into this, I recomment to buy a external drive, since they are rather cheap now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandur Posted July 11, 2009 Author Share Posted July 11, 2009 so its done, i managed to get it to acceptable size and uped it at youtube. my first try, its nothing fancy, just a collection of clips in 2 parts. i tried to make one big file but movie maker crashed, i just have 2 gig ram please check it out, so i get at least a few views the quality is supriseingly good! make sure to watch in HD. next time i try to do a continouse story, more or less. EDIT ah yes, i knew i forgott something; PART 1 PART 2 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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