If you need editing help/advice... ask and you shall receive.

[Beat]

Which Fraps version is the best to record in VC and get smooth 30fps?


And how do I make this "masking" effect?
Wasteland Heroes - Omicron

at 1:33, I know a way to do them but sometimes gets buggy and the CC doesn't look exactly the same in each clip.

All Fraps versions are based on the same code and engine and they almost only release new ones to fix bugs. So they're all the same, if you still get low FPS you can use the method I showed Basium in my previous post.

For VC it'd be either: Rercord in 15fps and speed up to x2 or record in 10fps and speed up to x3.

Never ever do a recording like 18fps and try to multiply it to reach 30fps, it's even mathematically in-correct because you'll always get fractures... and that equals choppy video.

As for the masking effect, you're getting the CC bug because the CC is interacting with the mask. The best and probably the only way to avoid that is to finish up your shot with NO effects except for the masking and then render the shot into an uncompressed .avi (theres a setting for that) then apply the effects you want afterwards to the uncompressed .avi.

another question. 

at 1:46

how do the colors change? do you record the same angle and change the colors? or is it masking? 

What video?

4K Resolutions:

I'm learning about the configuration of 3072p (4096x3072) - the 4K resolution. It' the resolution which gives you the 'orginal' tab that is above the 1080HD. Spectacular quality, don't know if it would go well on GTA. Here's an example:
EARTH Space-Sunrise 4k Resolution

So I've got the whole shit n stuff. I've been having problems with the "MP4" rendering issue. It gives me different aspects and the quality decreases totally. I mean when it's rendering and I'm watching the display - that qualities WOW. I'm not going for .WMV at all, it's total shit.


AviSynth Scipt + MeGUI



I keep getting this error when I browse up the script, no matter what I typed in the path's and stuff. It won't ever get me right. Even when I remove the " before and after the path. Please help me in this one.

Format Recommendation:

What format do you recommend? I don't really care about the size. Quality and color-wise. Also, in KillaMarci's Aftermath you mentioned it was Blu-Ray. How did you do that? Is it really effective?

Color Correction Dimensions:

We all got this issue where the heavy sets of CC/Effects decreases our quality by 3 times. But, I've been seeing people like you and others who apply a lot, but yet keep the quality crystal clear. Please give me some advice on the usage of heavy CC's and effects while having the quality expected.

Display Mis-frame:

Not sure about this one, but sometimes I think that the video preview box in vegas isn't showing me what's really going to appear - not talking about quality, but about the masking, effects, etc.

4K for GTA is stupid and it'd be too costy to get the gear to be actually able to record or even edit that. We don't even watch movies in 4K yet, you're a bit ahead of your time. But it'll eventually become standard like 1080p. When is that? ain't no prophet.

The megui question is a highly technical question not an editing question, and if I knew the answer for it I'd tell you but I do not.

The format I recommend is 5mbps 720p WMV or 8mbps 1080p WMV. MKVs are nice and they look amazing but they caused too much trouble with YouTube for me and they make old PCs lag which is never a good thing. And about the blu-ray thing, I was simply calling it names but it was technically similar to what you'd expect out of a blu-ray film or something in terms of quality.

Color corrections can never ever do anything to the video quality, if you feel your CC is making the video quality look terrible then tune it the hell down, there is no such thing as a "heavy" CC.

The only thing that can fuck your quality is contrast, thats the only thing I can think of that can actually give that feel, or playing too much with curves. But then that wouldn't be low quality thats just too much contrast.

Also protip: The dark areas in your video is where you'll get the most pixelation if your bitrate is low.

About the video preview thing, check that your rendering resolution size is a match to your project resolution size, and your aspect ratio is set to 1.

[Determined]

What additional tools & mods do you use to record your IV stuff?

[Beat]

What additional tools & mods do you use to record your IV stuff?

I use iCEnhancer and thats it

[PM]

How did you make the blue boxes in this video?
NOCTiLUCENT

[Determined]

What additional tools & mods do you use to record your IV stuff?

I use iCEnhancer and thats it

 
How do you get your actors to behave in a specific way, like the girl being handcuffed amongst the mafia mob (or dancing in that short you made)?

[Ltab-]

NOCTiLUCENT

How do you make that smooth slow motion effect in 1:26? Is it a plugin?

[Tg]

well this site is retarder, i posted Beat's clarity. wtf?

Beat's CLARITY

[Shingetsu]

How to make this Water Ripple Wave effect in Chapter 2 of Memento in 10:36 to 10:37 ?

Memento 720p

[Beat]

How did you make the blue boxes in this video?
NOCTiLUCENT

First, I made the blue box in Vegas and made it a video of its own. So theres this video of a bluebox with rectangle moving inside from left to right or w/e.

Then in the actual video I used this square sample I made and tracked it using motion track in Vegas, frame by frame Of course it could be done easier in After Effects if you track the movements of the object you want to place the box on and take that data and use it to animate the box.

What additional tools & mods do you use to record your IV stuff?

I use iCEnhancer and thats it

 
How do you get your actors to behave in a specific way, like the girl being handcuffed amongst the mafia mob (or dancing in that short you made)?

I thought you said additional tools, so eventually I considered Simple Native Trainer as something standard Well yeah I use that to spawn bots and apply different animations to them, change their models and outfits and voila. I usually get my lovely Slayer to do that but hes been away since forever and I'm sad because bots are very limited, you can only get them to do so little like follow you or stand still and talk on the phone or play a stupid ingame animation or simply fight you. When on the other hand if you act with humans, you can do waaaaaaay more sophisticated scenes. I'M WAITING ON YOU NICK.

NOCTiLUCENT

How do you make that smooth slow motion effect in 1:26? Is it a plugin?

Yeah it can be done using a plugin called Twixtor, available for Adobe's AE or the latest versions of Vegas (10 and up I think). Though I did it using a default effect in AE called Timewarp.

another question. 

Beat's CLARITY

at 1:46

how do the colors change? do you record the same angle and change the colors? or is it masking? 

Nah I did it using Secondary CC, a default effect in Vegas. I simply selected the color of the car as the effected region in Secondary CC and it automatically masks out the red part of the car through the whole shot, and then you can do things to that affected region like change it's color or make it brighter or darker.

How to make this Water Ripple Wave effect in Chapter 2 of Memento in 10:36 to 10:37 ?

Memento 720p

Thats a NewblueFX effect called Ripple, it can be done without the plugin but it'd be too complicated so it's waaaaaay easier to get the plugin.

[Tg]

tnx for the help ya 3am. Hahahaa

[Beat]

Moar questions

[PrzemOO]

What's the average time you spend on a project?
What's the project you've spent the most time on?
What's your favorite video of yourself and why?
How do you think of new effects to use in your videos?

[Rainbow]

How do you pick music? Do you pick music before the video itself because it sets a mood? Do you pick music because of the stunts or do you pick stunts that match a song?

In Clarity, when Streem lands on the ground, around 2:08 or something, both of the landings have that earthquake shock thing. I never really found a good way to do that. How did you?

Your opening texts always have background movements like in Clarity. Where do you get those or do you make them yourself? And how do you make awesome texts because I find that the hardest part of editing a video. 


EDIT:// Awesome topic btw. Always wanted to have an effects topic in general.

EDIT2://SKRILLEX - TheGT4sm's part

TheGT4sm nearly always uses that sort of smart blur that makes everything looks more intense and full of velocity. What is that? (I really hope you get what I mean x)  .. )

[Sheep]

I have one question: It seems that my videos have really low bit rate or something like that. Every time it looks really LQ'ish even with maximum render settings.

Here is some of my videos:

Separated

Vacuity

[Vegas]

I'd like to ask, what kind of plugins for SV and AAE do you use excluding NewBlue?
Which programs do you use for audio track editing?
Which other programs/tools not cohering with games do you find useful?

Thank you for being so kind to answer