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Shexy Maloney
Registered User
Join date: 14 Oct 2006
Posts: 1
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10-15-2006 18:23
What are the best settings in SL preferences and fraps for optimum capture. My machinima will be blown up and projected so I want it at the highest possible quality.
Thanks
Shexy
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Kathmandu Gilman
Fearful Symmetry Baby!
Join date: 21 May 2004
Posts: 1,418
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10-22-2006 11:23
Well, unless you have a super dual core computer with lots of horsepower, the best way to capture smooth video is to capture the video using a second computer or recording device that way SL has total resources to use for rendering. Then you want to record in uncompressed avi. It creates a huge file but it takes very little computer power to record it, leaving more for SL and when you do processes it, you have the original to go back to if it gets messed up. Shoot short takes and edit them together rather than long scenes to keep the files managable.
For SL, that depends entirely on your computer and video card. You want as pretty a picture as you can make with as high a framerate you can manage. A new, empty sim is the ideal place to film if you can, using a backdrop placed in front of a void is good too. Turning down draw distance is a big one, if your scenes are close ups and mid-shots with litte outdoor scenery then drop it to the lowest setting. If you can, go to your video card control panel and up the AA and AF filtering to the point where it adversly affects your framerate then back it off some, you want to have the least amount of "jaggies" your system can remove and still have reasonable FPS. The better your system, the higher you can go.. this is what yur money goes for with high end video cards.
I find clearing my cashe and then hanging around a while before filming helps a little, also setting your network speed to as fast as it will go can prevent avatar freezing but I have a really fast connection. YMMV. The other settings are mostly a matter of preference, situation and what your computer can support.
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slow but steady
Join date: 4 Dec 2004
Posts: 129
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10-27-2006 07:07
Best frame per frame quality is when you check all the boxes except avatar vertex program and move all of the sliders fully to the right. Framerate will vary so it'll become a tradeoff. If price isn't an object, get a high rez monitor (high pixel count) which will allow you to capture less grainy images -- again at a framerate tradeoff.
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