Attention movie and wallpaper makers!

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Originally Posted by Krieg-Schwein

I could have swore I saw on this page you recommended using Video out from one computer to a video in on an other for making movies, but either it's gone or I'm blind, in any case A Great Idea and I have both of those things however I can't get the video out option to work unless its at a ridiculous low resolution, In fact the only time I can get it to work is during th first stages of booting my computer after a point it's gone, I tried running the game at 640 X 480 and that didn't work so I suppose a smaller REz would look like Crap!!, any ideas on how I can get the Video out to work? I have a high end card so I don't think that's the problem

How exactly are you going about with the video output? That is, through what port, and how does it look?

Hmm, I don't have that kind of hardware, myself... but actually, try and see what happens when you run it at lower res.

For games 640x480 is way too low these days. BUT - for video, this is damn near hi-fi. If you look at my SHIII movie, it was made completely in 512x384. Any higher, and you're basically at DVD standard. For online distribution, people often use even lower resolutions.

So when you put a video online, it generally shouldn't be in bigger resolution than 640x480. The only problem is, of course, HOW it resizes to 640x480. That depends on how the footage you're getting actually look. If it scales things well, or zooms in - it shouldn't be much problem. A few jaggies, but they'll get lost in the video compression artefacts anyway. If it uses a bad resizing algorythm like NearestNeighbour though, then it's not too good. But still tolerable. I got by with Fraps doing that, and it didn't come out too bad.