New to fraps and some questions?

Hello,

I am new to making machinima and using fraps. I read from the machinima website a blurt about making one minute movies and keeping them under 5 mb. I havent bought the full version yet so I have 30 secs to shoot with trial version. I just shot a 14 sec shot to try it out and the end result weighed in at 49 mb. Its a bear to upload??

I cant figure out on the fraps interface how to adjust for the size of the file. If i shot a one minute video at that pace it would be over 200 mb yikes!

PLZ any advice for a new user is greatly appreciated

You get a raw .avi out of Fraps. The only reasonable thing to do with it is to compress it on your machine. If you are running Windows, look on your machine for Windows Movie Maker. It comes free with Windows. Open that progam and import the raw (.avi) file. Then output it (I think the route is "Make a movie.". I get about 5.5 min. of the resulting .wmv file into about 40 mb.
TM

Thank you for this helpful insight!

If you have a small budget, you can get favourable results by using QuickTime Pro, with several options for applying codex to reduce the movie size (albiet with lower quality for the most part), alternatively, if you like what you are doing, or gain some revenue from your work, try investing in one of the movie editing programmes, I personally use a few, but the main workhorse is Sony Vegas Studio Editor, I'm sure others have different preferences.