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[GTV Zeratul]

I'm using MSI Afterburner to capture my matches. What I would like to know is what setting you are using.
A 6 min match comes in at a whopping 3.2GB, witch is a "bit" much to upload to youtube.
Any sugestions or should I just use a conversion prog before I upload?

Thanks.

[Wintersdark]

You want that. Capture in MSI, then encode the video with something like Handbrake before uploading to youtube. You'll get *far* better video quality than encoding at reduced quality in the first place. This is because tools like Handbrake can "look ahead" when encoding the video to compress it with substantially less loss of image quality, and can use far more processing power to perform the compression.

Using FRAPS or MSI with reduced capture settings makes really ugly videos, as they can do none of that, and are attempting to compress the video without impacting your gameplay experience.

With that being said, I would recommend however setting the video capture framerate limit in MSI to 30fps. More is useless (normal video is ~24.9fps) and recording at 60fps generates a file that's twice as big as it needs to be.

[GTV Zeratul]

Thanks, comprehensive and to the piont.

[knight-of-ni]

After recording the match, the video is raw, uncompressed and must be transcoded into something smaller.

I use the free, open source application called Avidemux.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

The interface might seem a little weird, but what I do is open the raw file, set the video compression to H.264, set the audio to mp3, and then hit save. You can adjust the frame rate if you want or any number of other settings.

The result will be a much smaller file you can upload to youtube.