~Hakurei Shrine~ > Help Me, Eirin!
How to upload Touhou videos in HD quality Tutorial
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Could I get a poll of which video recording programs people are using? I spent the day cycling through several different free programs, but none of them measure up for one reason or another, and while I'm not opposed to purchasing one I'm skittish about putting $40 down on a program that may turn out to be unsuitable.
(If it matters, I'm primarily interested in Danmakufu.)
Agent of the BSoD:
I use Fraps right now, but I've heard people talking about some software being better than it now.
This thread has an overview of 5 of them. (the one in the #1 spot being free and I may look into it)
http://www.vaultf4.com/threads/game-recording-fraps-vs-bandicam-vs-msi-afterburner-vs-dxtory-vs-playclaw.433/
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I gave MSI Afterburner a try, and it worked impressively with full-screen and full-frame settings. I did get some slowdown in the same places you normally see slowdown in existing videos (loading bosses, loading stages, very large numbers of bullets being created at once while two dozen enemies attempt to ram your hitbox) but it's still vastly preferred to the alternatives.
With that said, MeGUI doesn't like what results, yielding the following error when attempting to upload it with the AVS Script Creator:
--- Quote ---"FFVideoSource: Insanity detected: decoder returned an empty frame"
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Looking up the error results in suggestions to update FFMS. I doubt that's the issue, though - I'm reasonably sure that I have the latest version in 2.19 (20130917). What should I do next?
Agent of the BSoD:
I don't use MeGUI anymore, I didn't like what it did with colors among other things. I do all my encoding currently within VirtualDub with H.264. I find it yields better results.
--- Quote from: Agent of the BSoD on December 15, 2011, 10:06:52 AM ---And as for me, I've reverted from using both VirtualDub and MeGUI, and just handle videos with VirtualDub, encoding them with H.264, resizing, and sharpening them. A scale of 5 for sharpening has so far looked good. Too high makes the video look bad. I'm still experimenting with it, but it looks to handle it better than MeGUI does. Still using Lame for the audio, just like MeGUI, just I pick CBR of 192. (because ABR of 192 does not exist) Also, media players seem to handle this format better than handling an mp4, and these finished videos are still in avi format. Not sure whether it makes a difference, but it definitely is easier to work with for me.
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I may write up the steps I take now if that may be useful to others. IMO the videos after being uploaded look way better using only VirtualDub than when encoded using MeGUI.
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Depending on how this works out I may type up a guide myself, what with starting from nothing three days ago.
Okay! I have 2.78GB and 47s of .avi to test, resized to 720x540, sharpened by 5, and with freshly imported LAMEness. This leaves the following questions--
1) Don't you run into size problems somewhere by leaving files as .avi? YouTube apparently imposes a 20GB limit on file size, and if my not-even-a-minute file is over 10% of that then I foresee problems with any substantially long video.
2) Assuming that the file does need to be converted to .mp4, which program should be used? MeGUI still crashes on the file and searching "convert avi to mp4" yields a sizable list of different sketchy applications from different sketchy websites.
3) Given that I prefer e-nonymity and thus want nothing whatsoever to do with Google+ and its mandated naming convention, do I even want to use YouTube? If not, where should I go to host the video?