[SHARE-GUIDE]Capturing video with Fraps-Rendering/Editing video with Vegas

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A professional guide about editing/rendering a video with Sony Vegas made by Leaf The Pro.

 

So let's start...

 

Fraps 3.1.1

 

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology.  In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:

 

Benchmarking Software - Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen.  Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points.  Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.

 

Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key!  There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot.  Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.

 

Realtime Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game?  Come join the Machinima revolution!  Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy!  Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560x1600 with custom frame rates from 10 to 100 frames per second!

 

- Requires DirectX 9.0c

- Requires an Intel Pentium 3/4, or AMD Athlon/Duron processor

- Works best with an NVIDIA Geforce or ATI Radeon graphics card.

- Install under an Administrator account.

 

Works on Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7

 

I believe that you don't need anything else about fraps!Anyone can use it!Just enable a hotkey and press it to start capture  ;D

 

Download

http://www2.fraps.com/setup.exe

 

Editing/Rendering with Sony Vegas

1. Opening fraps footage into your Sony Vegas

 

 

Open Sony Vegas.

Go to File >> New (CTRL+N)

(Or if you forget to do this at the beginning, you can simply press ALT+enter anytime) and set everything like you can see below.

Once you’ve done that simply save it (look at the screenshot to find where to save).

 

Opening footage in Vegas

 

If you really want to make a good video, this is hard though and you should try doing this once you’re getting quite good with editing. you should FIRST open your sound in Vegas and make the music match with the video from the beginning, that’s what I always do <3>> Open and find the proper file (CTRL+O)

 

You probably have something like this:

 

Now let’s see. On the timeline you can actually see your fraps. You can click on play (look at the screenshot if you can’t find it) and see the video on the bottom right. You can’t see it that good. But it’s good enough for editing.

 

Cutting(splitting) a fragment.

 

I’m going to tell it right away, if something goes wrong simply press CTRL+Z to undo (Or ALT+Y to redo).

 

This should be easy. Click on the fragment which is on the timeline. Click on “S” to Split it, that’s all.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/171/splitkk7se6.jpg[/img]

You should do this quite often. For example, if you want to delete a part of the fragment. Let’s say you recorded 4 minutes but only the first minute is worth watching. Click on the fragment after that minute, click on “S” to split it. Click on the fragment you don’t need anymore (the 3 minutes that are left) and press on Delete, it will only delete the last 3 minutes since you splitted after the first minute.

 

Speeding up or slowing down.

 

Do not speed up or slow down too much. It makes the video pretty ghey. I almost only use it if I want to get the music matching with the footage lately.

To speed up or to slow down you must click on the far left or far right side of a fragment (like, at the beginning or the end of a fragment) and drag it inward or outward WHILE YOU HOLD CTRL. For speeding up, inward (so the fragment becomes smaller) and for speeding up, outward (so the fragment becomes bigger, no shit, lol.)

Some lines, like accordions appear on the fragment. Speeding up should look like this:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5615/speedupgg4.jpg[/img]

 

Overlapping (Text and video fragments).

 

Let’s start off with Overlapping Text, that’s easier.

1. Go to the Media generators tab next to Video FX.

2. Select “Text”.

3. Move a fraps fragment to a new timeline.

4. Drag the “sample text” to the 1st timeline.

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/8139/overlappingtextst9.jpg[/img]

Now you can already see the text overlapping your fraps footage. If you want to make the text bigger or smaller do the same thing as with speeding up or slowing down (dragging in-or-outward while holding CTRL). You can also change text settings with this icon:

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/5465/textchangeiconcl5.jpg[/img]

 

Now over to overlapping video fragments.

 

You’ll need 2 different timelines for this as well. Move a fraps fragment to another timeline, underneath the part where you want to overlap, watch:

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/421/overlappingvideosw4.jpg[/img]

Now go to the compositing mode and set it to “add”, observe:

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/9418/compositionmodeql6.jpg[/img]

If everything went fine you just overlapped 2 video fragments. If you want to overlap 2 video fragments and a text fragment or even more you have to do the same but you’ll need more timelines for it.

 

Fading in and fading out.

 

Go to the upper right corner of a fragment. Some kind of arrow with a quarter part of a circle will appear. Move that to the left, you’ll get something like this:

Try playing it and look at the lithe camera at the right bottom of the screen again. It should fade out.

As for fading in start at the upper left corner of the fragment until that same thing appears. Move it to the right, you should get this:

Play it and see if it fades in, it should.

 

Zooming in(or out).

 

This is something that should be done a few times in a video, not too often of course but it looks pretty cool.

Right click on a video fragment in which you want to zoom in and go to “video event pan/crop”.

You should now see a small pop-up in the middle of your screen. This is where you have to work with if you want to zoom in. There are 2 things here you must know how to use. There’s a square with a “F” in it and a little timeline. Where you see the square is where the camera zooms in to. You can of course also move the square. Now look at how I zoomed in on this guy I killed (Looks pretty nice)

 

 

Now look at the timeline. That’s at what moment the camera zooms into the square. You probably get it, I know you do. And if you don’t, well, let’s say you want to start off without a zoom in and want it to zoom in after a few seconds. Click on the timeline after those few seconds, a little square will appear on the timeline and then make the square with the F in it smaller, observe:

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1406/zoomtimelineko4nz5.jpg[/img]

This isn’t hard. It’s actually quite easy but it does, like most things require a lot of practicing. So you should create a lot of those squares at the timeline and zoom in different at all of them. Then start playing the video and look at the little video on the bottom right to see what it looks like.

 

VIDEO EFFECTS

 

Transitions

 

This is what makes editing so fun and easy. Zoom in or out on the timeline by clicking on it and scrolling up or down or by clicking on the + or – at the left corner:

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/5877/plusenminex7fh3.jpg[/img]

Left click on a fragment and drag it halfway towards another one. A “X” will appear as those 2 fragments will fade out and fide in into each other:

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3602/22799890rl0.jpg[/img]

You can already put a transition on the X which will make a nice effect. Go to the transitions tab on the bottom. Use the first one to check it out, it will look cool, trust me. Click on the transition and drag it to the “X”, look:

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/7489/transition2wa6hm0.jpg[/img]

Now play it and look at the little camera at the right bottom off the screen. Looks cool huh? See, it’s not hard to edit

You can always use transitions on that “X” if you overlap 2 fragments and see that “X”. You can also use transitions at the beginning or at the end of a fragment, try it out ( you will probably have to make the transition bigger to make it look cool though).

 

If you want to use a transition in the middle of a fragment you should split (S) where you want to have that transition and drag the transition to that split:

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/4524/transitionsplitpj5.jpg[/img]

 

Video fx

 

For special effects you can also use Video fx. But the main difference is that that it’s for the entire fragment. Go to the Video fx tab at the bottom. Click on of the effects, just use the first one for example (it’s not that good) but you’ll see what it looks like.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/9682/videofx2aj0.jpg[/img]

Play the fragment and see what it looks like.

 

Alright, you should know how to edit a bit now. You’ll get better by practicing and once you know how everything works start matching it with music.

 

Rendering

Once you’ve finished your video compress it.

Go to File>>Render as:

A pop-up will appear which allows you to set everything like you want.

Go to “Custom…”

A new pop-up will appear.

Set everything like this:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/3332/template1ux9.jpg[/img]

Go to the video tab and set everything like this. (You need a XviD MPEG-4 Codec for it)

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/5885/template2cy4.jpg[/img]

Now go to Configure to set the xViD codec (look at my screenie)

 

Note: You only record between those triangles above the timeline:

 

 

Now save it:

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/2295/template4cd9.jpg[/img]

You’re ready to render. Click on “Save as”

 

Download

http://rapidshare.com/files/125255650/Sony_Vegas_Pro_8.0b.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/125267057/Sony_Vegas_Pro_8.0b.part2.rar

 

The programmes that i gave u to download are free and uploaded by me.If u wanna find a

crack is very easy,just search at google.

 

Regards,

fakoykas

[GrisoM]

QQ to my guide ¬¬ i will say nothing

 

just good job looks nice way to edit video =)

 

stick this u know there it was no guide before mine or yours..

[DeathSoldier]

Really nice guide to make a video, perfect I can say, well if you use photoshop you can add some cool pictures at the first of the video or if you are using adobe after effects you can make a nice video, altho it's a really nice guide !

I will make a movie soon and I need it. thanks again!

[Hilltop]

awesome massive share, will read when i have time :P

[fdLP.]

Awesome!!!!! I learned that zoom so far !  The prog is perfect . So !? +1 .

 

Suggest Sticky.

[Waster]

The annoying with fraps is that a 7minutes video is like 2GB, try virtualdub to convert it as lots of converters i have tried cant convert fraps videos.

[eKoIce]

you deserved it => Sticky !

[sanjose]

You can also try Camtasia, it works nice n u can also edite it there too. a nice option in 1 package.

anyway thanks for the post

[zEx_Drax]

Exelent Guide,

Tnx very mutch fakoykas

[TєђGëØrge]

Thnks I Was Needing this guide To Create Videos when playing l2...:P

[Wyratrux]

aham nice guide... but isn't fraps a warez?!

[rekuraab]

aham nice guide... but isn't fraps a warez?!

Nope..

You can see the 1st photo it says "unregistered" and he didn't share any serial key or crack so..

Btw useful guide fakoykas, thanks.

[Scorp43]

Nice guide. I always learn something new ^^

[blubb]

Thank you fakoykas, gona edit my l2 movies with sony vegas now. ^_^

[xKenji]

Gratz Fakoykas for sharing this great guide and i know many ppl have probs creating vids :P

 

so i think sticky is deserved :D

 

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