Video Editing.

[Janx]

Ok, Makin some vids of WoW for my gulid and for the life of me I cant find a video editing program to suit my needs.

Heres my deal. I use gamecam to record due to low file size and still able to see the action. Whenever I load it into Adobe Premiere Effects 3 or Cyberlink PowerDirector the video quality goes to shit due to, I believe, it being converted to NTSC 30fps right off the bat.

So having said that, recomendations?

[Fash]

just my 2 cents and i could be wrong, but typically your source material should be as high quality as possible and only on final export do you worry yourself with file size. gamecam might not be in your best interests if thats happening.

[cadalano]

fash is right, but with recording gameplay.. higher record quality will start to compromise your FPS pretty substantially unless you have the turbohurtzes for it. i dont know shit about gamecam though so maybe thats not the case


i have a video capture card in the mail and I think/hope that it will be great for capturing gameplay since I should be offloading all of the CPU grind to another machine. I plan on using Vegas or whatever.. but i have used Virtual Dub and Fraps in the past with no issues aside from the FPS hit.. and i'd vouch for both if youre doing basic stuff.

[Janx]

CPU isnt whats worrying me. FRAPS runs fine with me running 1650x1080 , but just 30seconds or or is 500megs which is what brings me back to gamecam. Being able to record a 17min fight start to loot distro and it taking up mabye 200-250megs..just doesnt compare.

What I'm looking for is a program that lets me add audio/music and scene transitions while leaving the base video intact.

[Janx]

K, got it looking decent enough and small enough to put on youtube/google video thank god. Just had to screw with codec's filters etc.. to get it lookin halfway decent. Will mess with Fraps later and see if its worth converting down a multi gig file.

[Siji]

Fraps FTW!