FRAPS: Best compression mode for YouTube?

Can anybody tell me how folks make these 17 minute long videos for YouTube??? I can only magage a few mins...my compression has gotta be too high or somethin...I ain't exactly a "Machinima Guru"

I checked my videos and found that this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI2ijDn5A7o

ran 6.24 min. and used just under 28 megs. At tha rate I could have made 17 min. fit easily in YouTube's 100 meg. limit. This was ordinary .wmv conpression. Usually I don't see megs/min that small. This vid was done with camera still and no action but the Chimp (Orhalla Zander) making a lime ice cream cone out of a coulpe of prims. I am guessing that the still background allowed better compression
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6 mins, heavy on the graphics, only 33 mb's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6rhVsIeU8

YouTube recommends uploading videos compressed using DivX. Try that if you're not already.

Thanks for the help everybody, cause I plan on plannin out an "action series" (unless 1st Life makes me too lazy

LOL that video w/ the monkey was in the back of my mind when I posted this up thinkerer, thanks

ONE THING, about when I filmed...I use FRAPs, cause it's free to download & use...looked good...but file-sizes were too big after the audio was added.

Any of you use FRAPs? & if ya do...what file format do you pick from the menu, .tga?

The fact that I capture Full Screen size insteada 1/2-sze has gotta bring the filesize up too...but in my 1st video the resolution was so grainy, I changed it. I hate seein choppy & grainy videos most of the time when I look up SL videos, heh

Don't use Youtube. Use Blip.tv. Excellent quality of video.

Capture via fraps and then we use virtualdub to compress into divx.

I agree, but you still need to compress the video. I prefer qt h.264 so you can stream into sl if necessary.

The best and most widely supported final-render I have found is h.264 mp4

I export my final videos from Adobe Premiere Pro as an uncompressed AVI so I don't lose video quality due to re-encoding.

Take the massive file that results and re-compress it with Quicktime Pro using h.264 as an mp4.

Hours later, I have an extremely compact high quality video. Then upload to Blip.tv, and the circle is complete.

One of your aims to gain smooth flowing movies, is to try and reduce the movie down in steps, until you reach less than 100kbps data rate. If you cannot acheive that due to high resolutions, reduce the resolution. Its better to have a very sharp clear movie that you can scale up in size, that is the right data rate, than to crunch it down using over zealous codex.

Look at the codex you can apply to the music stream, which is seperate to the movie codex within the final encapsulated movie file. Achieveing 64kbps at 44.100 frequency will give you a good balance.

If yall lived in Chicago I'd take ya out for Pizza & beer !

Thanks a lot for ALL the help...I'm gonna check out Blip...alright, sounds good

hmm... brings ta mind somethin else *makes another topic*