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Help with frag clip
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I need help making my frag clips look good. They look awful and I have no idea why. I followed Beater's guide, except I recorded with 120 fps in Lawena. This is what I ended up with.

So I went back to not using lagarith or h.264 encoder. Instead of that encoder I used handbrake, these are my settings. So I started recording in Lawena with these settings. After that I went to virtualdub, as demonstrated in this guide. Beater also did it this way, except that he chose "Lagarith Lossless Codes" under Video --> Compression. After I saved it as an .avi file I opened it in sony vegas. I then rendered it with these render settings. After I got that .avi file I opened handbrake and encoded it with the settings I previously posted.

Final result is this. It looks really bad, and I can't figure out why. Please help if you know or might know what the issue could be. If you've got another way of recording that isn't too complicated and has good looking result then I'd like to try that aswell.

I need help making my frag clips look good. They look awful and I have no idea why. I followed [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5fot1V-Aw]Beater's guide[/url], except I recorded with 120 fps in Lawena. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS8FTsU7mhQ]This[/url] is what I ended up with.

So I went back to not using lagarith or h.264 encoder. Instead of that encoder I used handbrake, [url=http://i.imgur.com/PDVDPDs.png]these[/url] are my settings. So I started recording in Lawena with [url=http://i.imgur.com/44xTiOT.png]these[/url] settings. After that I went to virtualdub, as demonstrated in [url=http://www.teamfortress.tv/3521/how-to-make-videos-for-tf2]this guide[/url]. Beater also did it this way, except that he chose "Lagarith Lossless Codes" under Video --> Compression. After I saved it as an .avi file I opened it in sony vegas. I then rendered it with [url=http://imgur.com/a/BsY8h]these[/url] render settings. After I got that .avi file I opened handbrake and encoded it with the settings I previously posted.

Final result is [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQmhWOj3IA4]this[/url]. It looks really bad, and I can't figure out why. Please help if you know or might know what the issue could be. If you've got another way of recording that isn't too complicated and has good looking result then I'd like to try that aswell.
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try avg bitrate to 18000 and 2-pass encoding. bitrate is the most important setting of all, you can try and change it to something even higher like 24 000 but that is probably too high for youtube anyway.

try avg bitrate to 18000 and 2-pass encoding. bitrate is the most important setting of all, you can try and change it to something even higher like 24 000 but that is probably too high for youtube anyway.
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MILKy_try avg bitrate to 18000 and 2-pass encoding. bitrate is the most important setting of all, you can try and change it to something even higher like 24 000 but that is probably too high for youtube anyway.

Thanks for the tip. I would be surprised if that was the issue though, quality #5 should be really good quality. Also, when I checked the properties of the encoded clip, it says the bitrate is 165746 kbit/s, and this short clip is 500 mb and I think that is because of the high quality encoding settings. I'll try it though.

[quote=MILKy_]try avg bitrate to 18000 and 2-pass encoding. bitrate is the most important setting of all, you can try and change it to something even higher like 24 000 but that is probably too high for youtube anyway.[/quote]

Thanks for the tip. I would be surprised if that was the issue though, quality #5 should be really good quality. Also, when I checked the properties of the encoded clip, it says the bitrate is 165746 kbit/s, and this short clip is 500 mb and I think that is because of the high quality encoding settings. I'll try it though.
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MILKy_try avg bitrate to 18000 and 2-pass encoding. bitrate is the most important setting of all, you can try and change it to something even higher like 24 000 but that is probably too high for youtube anyway.

I can't upload the clip to youtube, but just watching it in a video player it looks good. I took like 2 hours to encode that 30 sec clip though, and I don't think it should take that long. Also, I don't see how low bitrate could be the issue since I tried recording a video using beater's method. I think I actually got some decent quality when I recorded with very high fps + motion blur, why is this and could it explain why everything else looks terrible? I will experiment more tomorrow.

[quote=MILKy_]try avg bitrate to 18000 and 2-pass encoding. bitrate is the most important setting of all, you can try and change it to something even higher like 24 000 but that is probably too high for youtube anyway.[/quote]

I can't upload the clip to youtube, but just watching it in a video player it looks good. I took like 2 hours to encode that 30 sec clip though, and I don't think it should take that long. Also, I don't see how low bitrate could be the issue since I tried recording a video using beater's method. I think I actually got some decent quality when I recorded with very high fps + motion blur, why is this and could it explain why everything else looks terrible? I will experiment more tomorrow.
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moleMILKy_try avg bitrate to 18000 and 2-pass encoding. bitrate is the most important setting of all, you can try and change it to something even higher like 24 000 but that is probably too high for youtube anyway.
I can't upload the clip to youtube, but just watching it in a video player it looks good. I took like 2 hours to encode that 30 sec clip though, and I don't think it should take that long. Also, I don't see how low bitrate could be the issue since I tried recording a video using beater's method. I think I actually got some decent quality when I recorded with very high fps + motion blur, why is this and could it explain why everything else looks terrible? I will experiment more tomorrow.

try 12k bitrate

[quote=mole][quote=MILKy_]try avg bitrate to 18000 and 2-pass encoding. bitrate is the most important setting of all, you can try and change it to something even higher like 24 000 but that is probably too high for youtube anyway.[/quote]

I can't upload the clip to youtube, but just watching it in a video player it looks good. I took like 2 hours to encode that 30 sec clip though, and I don't think it should take that long. Also, I don't see how low bitrate could be the issue since I tried recording a video using beater's method. I think I actually got some decent quality when I recorded with very high fps + motion blur, why is this and could it explain why everything else looks terrible? I will experiment more tomorrow.[/quote]
try 12k bitrate
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