Text-Tut: HD with camtasia studio 6

[acantophis3rd]

TEXT-TUT: HD WITH CAMTASIA STUDIO 6by A3D

Its a compact text tutorial how to render with FRAPS recordet .avi files to HD with camtasia studio 5 or 6 as .wmv. All you need is basic knowledge about the program, fraps, the windows media encoder and video editing. The result is a HD video without fake black boarders and widescreen.

First preparations:
Download the "Windows Media Encoder Series 9 for your Windows 32bit or 64bit from the microsoft download portal.
Install the "WME9" on your computer. Now you can setup your presets. How to setup presets with the WME9 can be found inside another text tutorial soon.

Step by Step:

Record your game:
The most new games of this century can be played with different video ressolutions. Set the games ressolution to 640x380, 800x600, 1024x768 or the best: 1280x1024, it doesnt matter.
record with fraps:
FULL SIZE
60FPS

Setup a preset with the WM9Encoder for your camtasia studio this way:
windows media video 9
windows media audio 9.1 or 9.2
size: 1280x720
NO chop inside: "same as video input"
framerate: 29.97
bit rate: 3000K or 2100K for lower file size in the end
key frame interval: 1
buffer size: 1
sharpness: between 95 and 100
audio: 320bit 44mhz Stereo

EDIT YOUR VIDEO!

Lets go to render the video:

- produce video as..
- custom setting
- video format: .wmv
- profiles: the preset you have created with the above setting
- custom size: dont change that
- make a chop inside "maintain aspect ratio"
- next
- next
- waiting
- DONE

Please give feedback.

[Maceman]

I would use 1280x720 for game resolution. That is if the game supports WS resolutions - most new games do.

And the rendering bitrate I would raise to maybe 5000 or 6000 kbps. This doesn't make much of a difference for older games, but you can really tell on the new games.

Other than that, great guide.

[skorch82]

I would also match the framerate of recording to that of the media being recorded, or else you will get ghosting or choppy video, especially noticeable on older games.

I agree, very thorough.

[acantophis3rd]

I would also match the framerate of recording to that of the media being recorded, or else you will get ghosting or choppy video, especially noticeable on older games. I agree, very thorough.

Well, I rendered all my videos this way.. classic ones with a lower res of 320x240 and rescently released games (mostly 1280x1024) for test reasons and none of this videos got any ghosting or whatever problems.

I would use 1280x720 for game resolution. That is if the game supports WS resolutions - most new games do.

all other newer games that dont support this ressolution should be played with 1280x1024.

And the rendering bitrate I would raise to maybe 5000 or 6000 kbps. This doesn't make much of a difference for older games, but you can really tell on the new games.

2100K results into low filesize for a 11 minute long video: 175MB
3000K is resulting in a 230-280MB big video for a 11 minute long video
6000K (If i am correct its the bitrate for a 1080p BLU-Ray Disk or something above 7500K) and results into a 400 - 450MB big file.

[Maceman]

6000K (If i am correct its the bitrate for a 1080p BLU-Ray Disk or something above 7500K) and results into a 400 - 450MB big file.

Blu-ray discs can have sometimes as much as 45,000 kbps bitrate.