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General => Video Editing/Compression => General Discussion => Video Editing Tutorials => Topic started by: Daffy on December 17, 2006, 09:08:35 PM

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Daffy on December 17, 2006, 09:08:35 PM

First off i know this is pretty similar to Brainkiller's tutorial but i'm not ripping it or anything, i started testing this out before he posted his and i was rather bugged out when he posted his.

Software:
• Beepa Fraps (http://www.fraps.com/)
• Sony Vegas (http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/product.asp?pid=404)

What we're gonna do here is to teach you how to have a movie with 25fps instead 30fps and the benefits of that.
This is a technique for VC/LC movies, it wouldn't work in SA since SA is already limited to 25fps by the game engine.

Here is the reasons why you should do this:
• Lowers the file size by 20%
• Lowers the system requirements for smooth playback by 20%
• Lets you record in a higher resolutions with features like Anti Aliasing, Anistrophic Filtering, Smooth Vision and others alike enabled.
• Gives your movie a nice motion blur.
• Better playback and editing support.
• 100% Normal ingame speed.

Now to explain what this does:
When you record in either VC or LC you may have a hard time getting 30fps and if you do manage to get 30fps, know that it's not exactly 30fps but a little below since the game has a 30fps limit but it'll always be a little under.
This will cause you to loose some frames and the frame flow won't be as smooth as it should.
Now what we're gonna do is to set Fraps to 25fps instead of 30fps so Fraps will be controlling the fps-limit instead of Vice City and you will have 25fps stable while you're recording.
This will make the game run in 0,8 (25/30=0,8) of the normal game speed.
Later in the tutorial it will be explained how we're gonna get the speed back to 1 by using Velocity in Vegas.
The results looks better than a movie with 30fps.
Now you might be thinking all this sounds like a bunch of bullcrap, but if you're uncertain if this actually works... take a look at Doperide III (http://www.gtastunting.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17834&st=0) where i used it.
Time to take you through the steps for this:

Step 1:
First you gotta open Fraps and go to where you set your FPS and choose 25.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/Indiana_Jonas/Tutorial/25_1.jpg)
Now, record some stunts so you have to footage to do Step 2 and the rest with.

Step 2:
Time to open Vegas, first we're gonna make sure all the projects settings are as they should be, press Alt + Enter to open the project settings.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/Indiana_Jonas/Tutorial/25_2.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/Indiana_Jonas/Tutorial/25_3.jpg)

Step 3:
Select the clip you imported and add velocity to it.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/Indiana_Jonas/Tutorial/25_4.png)

Step 4:
Right click at the start of the velocity-line and choose Set To....
Enter 120% here and that's all.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/Indiana_Jonas/Tutorial/25_5.png)

Step 5:
Repeat step 3 and 4 on all of your clips.

I hope this helps your editing, if your PC is too slow to record in 25fps i suggest using Brainkiller's Tutorial (http://www.gtastunting.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17197&st=0).

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Brulla on December 18, 2006, 04:53:55 AM

Cool, gonna try it

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Aries on December 18, 2006, 04:58:48 AM

I wub you Daffy.  Nice tutorial, I didn't know you could set velocity like that!

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Daffy on December 18, 2006, 05:14:56 AM

Glad i could help, i think i'll do a color adjustment tut later today

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Aries on December 18, 2006, 05:18:31 AM

Show us how to make cool transitions that aren't shitty and custom. And please come on MSN because I had a dream about a transition and I need your help pulling it off.

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: faKe on December 18, 2006, 05:29:33 AM

Very nice!!!

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: PlethZorb on December 18, 2006, 05:30:45 AM

This meth is teh shit.

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Spoofy on December 18, 2006, 06:36:31 AM

One must try this when editing a video next time/first time. Thank you for this, wub for all.

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Rev on December 18, 2006, 06:49:30 AM

very nice job daffy

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Brulla on December 18, 2006, 07:34:34 AM

Tested it and it worked alright. Cool man, thanks  

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Brainkiller on December 18, 2006, 07:57:37 AM

Nice turorial man  I'll check it out.

I just edited my tutorial post and changed the text colour  It was grey...it doesn't work well with the new forum skin...

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Coolman on December 18, 2006, 09:34:19 AM

Nice tuto Daffy  I trying...

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Brad on December 22, 2006, 09:55:47 AM

Fuckinnn good, congrats! ;>

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Dark Rebel on June 07, 2007, 06:14:14 AM

Nice !

Title: Tutorial: Improved FPS-Flow
Post by: Ferσή on June 07, 2007, 05:30:07 PM

If your gonna bump a topic at least have somthing important to say.