FRAPS issue

[13CentKiller]

The frame rate is chewed up because your video card and CPU has to do almost double the load. Process the frames, and record them after processing.

If you have a decent video card. And by decent I mean 256MB+ video card with a decent clock speed and a decent processor (2.5GHz duel core+) you shouldn't notice a difference.

I get 120 FPS in Battlefield 2. I can record at 60FPS, the max that FRAPS allows. I can record at 60FPS in Freelancer too. But if you run FRAPS without recording, and the frame rate is already very low, expect to record at a lower frame rate.

Disable any fancy stuff you may have in your ATI Catalyst or Nvidia N-View panel. (Anti-aliasing, atmospheric filtration, bloom and stuff like that.) This will decrease the load on your CPU and video card. You will notice an improvement in the frame rate of FL without recording, and you will ultimately record at a higher rate too.

As for compressors. I use DivX with Adobe After Effects. I make the footage 1290 x 720, add a bloom effect and aspect ratio, then upload to YouTube in HD. I can slim each file from about 6GB to 12MB.

If you plan on processing the footage with Windows Movie Maker, I suggest you don't compress it first. You will get a crappy frame rate when adding effects on and editing in general. It is always good to process the raw footage first to minimize quality loss.

FRAPS does not introduce any kind of built in compressor the the reasons I explained. Quality loss, and frame rate. Uncompressed footage is ideal for editing in composers like Ae or Sony Vegas. Anything compressed by default would lag up a storm. This is why I hated GameCam.

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