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Okay. I saw the sticky in this forum with it's dead links and I thought well since there is now no thread on how to capture your PC gaming for posting online, and I do this regularly, I thought I'd post a new thread on how to do it. It's actually really easy and you can post in High Definition too!! 
First you will need two programs...the first one I'm sure a lot of us gamers have already.
The first is Fraps to capture; or you could use any game capturing software you wish as long as it can save to your HD in .avi format for the processing and compression part. The second is VirtualDub.
If you don't have VirtualDub you can get it here
You will also need to download and install video codecs that do not come with VirtualDub. I recommend the Xvid codec which you can get here
You will also need a lot of available disk space as the raw .avi files Fraps saves to the HD are maximum 3.9Gb (Fraps segment cutoff point is 3.9Gb) for approximately 2 to 4 minutes of gameplay depending on how much is going on in your game while capturing. I will also include steps on how to seamlessly splice 2 .avi files together if your gameplay got split into 2 vids. So here we go.
1. Capturing
First make sure nothing else is running on your computer and start up Fraps. Click the movies tab and make sure your video capture hotkey (the key you will press during gameplay to start Fraps capturing) is not a key used in gameplay of the game you're about to capture. Then set the FPS to 29.97 and screen to full size. See figure 1 below.
Figure 1.:
These are the settings I use.
Now start your game. Just an FYI, The resolution I set my games to is 1680x1050, the same as my monitor resolution (it will guarantee HD processing on Youtube). When your ready to record, hit the hotkey you chose and then play away. The framerate counter in the corner of your screen will turn red indicationg it is now capturing. When done recording hit the hotkey to stop fraps (framerate indicator will return to yellow colour) and then you can use your favourite media player (I use VLC) to review your recordings and either keep them for processing or scrap them. I've noticed that after processing my vids come out a little darker on youtube for some reason so I usually bump up the brightness setting in the game options of the game I want to record.
2. Processing and Compression
The next step is processing and compression, sounds more complicated than it really is.
First, open VirtualDub then click on File>Open video file... and browse to the folder where your captured game file is. By default, Fraps captures them to the C:\Fraps folder. After you chose which your file, virtual dub should show the first frame of the video you just chose as in figure 2.
Figure 2.:
VirtualDub after choosing first captured file
If your gameplay got split into 2 files by Fraps and want to splice the two files together, after already choosing the first one, click File>Append AVI segment... then navigate to the second video capture which is usually just to the right of the first one you chose or just below if you're in list view. After you've chosen it, you will not see it in the VirtualDub window but it is there and ready for processing. If you need to be certain that your 2nd video was indeed appended to the first, look at the amount of frames at the bottom of VirtualDub before appending. There will be almost double the amount after appending. See figures 3 and 4 below.
Figure 3.: Append AVI
segment
Figure 4.: Choose captured segment
next to the one you opened first.
Next we need to choose the processing mode for video. To do this, click Video>Full processing mode. The menu will close. Then again, click Video>Compression and the "select video compression" dialogue box will pop up. In it you will see the Xvid MPEG-4 Codec you downloaded and installed earlier, click it so its highlighted then click the "configure" button. The Xvid configuration dialogue box will pop up. In order to upload in HD we need to change these settings. First, change the Profile @ level dropdown menu to "Highdef" then click the "more..." button next to it...this will open another dialogue box, on the profile tab make sure "Quantization type" is set to "H.263" (see figure 5) then click the Aspect Ratio tab and put a dot in the "Pixel Aspect Ratio" radio button then choose "16:9 NTSC" from the drop down menu (see figure 6)
Fig 5.: Set Quantization type
Fig 6.: Set Aspect Ratio
Then click "ok" to close that dialogue box and go back to the first dialogue box and set "Encoding type" to single pass and then notice in fig 5 above, the button below Encoding type says "Target bitrate (kpbs)" and in fig 6 it says "Target quantizer"? Well when you click that button it toggles between the two of them...for Target bitrate, slide the slider below it all the way the the right to set it at 9708kbps then for Target quantizer slide the slider all the way to the left to "1 (maximum quality)" And finally (were almost done
) set the Quality preset to real time and then click OK and OK again to close both dialogue boxes and the video compression is now set. The good thing is that VirtualDub will remember these settings for your next project but just check them to make sure.
Now it's time to set the audio compression. That's if you choose to keep the game audio of course.
So click the Audio button from the tools menu and then click Full processing mode. The Menu will close. Click it again then click "Compression..." Then select MPEG Layer-3 to highlight it in the "Select audio compression" dialogue box then click OK to close it.
All that is left to do is start the processing by clicking File>Save as AVI... rename your video and save it to a convenient location and VirtualDub will now compress your 2 captured vids from 7.8Gb to a high quality AVI file of approximately 500Mb in size. Once it's done, watch it for approval and then upload it to youtube or your favourite video upload site!!!! Ta Da!!!
You done!
I would like to add that I usually append three 3.9 Gb files together and the output is about 6-7 minutes of gameplay and size is about 500-700Mb
First you will need two programs...the first one I'm sure a lot of us gamers have already.
The first is Fraps to capture; or you could use any game capturing software you wish as long as it can save to your HD in .avi format for the processing and compression part. The second is VirtualDub.
If you don't have VirtualDub you can get it here
You will also need to download and install video codecs that do not come with VirtualDub. I recommend the Xvid codec which you can get here
You will also need a lot of available disk space as the raw .avi files Fraps saves to the HD are maximum 3.9Gb (Fraps segment cutoff point is 3.9Gb) for approximately 2 to 4 minutes of gameplay depending on how much is going on in your game while capturing. I will also include steps on how to seamlessly splice 2 .avi files together if your gameplay got split into 2 vids. So here we go.
1. Capturing
First make sure nothing else is running on your computer and start up Fraps. Click the movies tab and make sure your video capture hotkey (the key you will press during gameplay to start Fraps capturing) is not a key used in gameplay of the game you're about to capture. Then set the FPS to 29.97 and screen to full size. See figure 1 below.
Figure 1.:
These are the settings I use.
Now start your game. Just an FYI, The resolution I set my games to is 1680x1050, the same as my monitor resolution (it will guarantee HD processing on Youtube). When your ready to record, hit the hotkey you chose and then play away. The framerate counter in the corner of your screen will turn red indicationg it is now capturing. When done recording hit the hotkey to stop fraps (framerate indicator will return to yellow colour) and then you can use your favourite media player (I use VLC) to review your recordings and either keep them for processing or scrap them. I've noticed that after processing my vids come out a little darker on youtube for some reason so I usually bump up the brightness setting in the game options of the game I want to record.
2. Processing and Compression
The next step is processing and compression, sounds more complicated than it really is.
First, open VirtualDub then click on File>Open video file... and browse to the folder where your captured game file is. By default, Fraps captures them to the C:\Fraps folder. After you chose which your file, virtual dub should show the first frame of the video you just chose as in figure 2.
Figure 2.:
VirtualDub after choosing first captured file
If your gameplay got split into 2 files by Fraps and want to splice the two files together, after already choosing the first one, click File>Append AVI segment... then navigate to the second video capture which is usually just to the right of the first one you chose or just below if you're in list view. After you've chosen it, you will not see it in the VirtualDub window but it is there and ready for processing. If you need to be certain that your 2nd video was indeed appended to the first, look at the amount of frames at the bottom of VirtualDub before appending. There will be almost double the amount after appending. See figures 3 and 4 below.
Figure 3.: Append AVI
segment
Figure 4.: Choose captured segment
next to the one you opened first.
Next we need to choose the processing mode for video. To do this, click Video>Full processing mode. The menu will close. Then again, click Video>Compression and the "select video compression" dialogue box will pop up. In it you will see the Xvid MPEG-4 Codec you downloaded and installed earlier, click it so its highlighted then click the "configure" button. The Xvid configuration dialogue box will pop up. In order to upload in HD we need to change these settings. First, change the Profile @ level dropdown menu to "Highdef" then click the "more..." button next to it...this will open another dialogue box, on the profile tab make sure "Quantization type" is set to "H.263" (see figure 5) then click the Aspect Ratio tab and put a dot in the "Pixel Aspect Ratio" radio button then choose "16:9 NTSC" from the drop down menu (see figure 6)
Fig 5.: Set Quantization type
Fig 6.: Set Aspect Ratio
Then click "ok" to close that dialogue box and go back to the first dialogue box and set "Encoding type" to single pass and then notice in fig 5 above, the button below Encoding type says "Target bitrate (kpbs)" and in fig 6 it says "Target quantizer"? Well when you click that button it toggles between the two of them...for Target bitrate, slide the slider below it all the way the the right to set it at 9708kbps then for Target quantizer slide the slider all the way to the left to "1 (maximum quality)" And finally (were almost done
) set the Quality preset to real time and then click OK and OK again to close both dialogue boxes and the video compression is now set. The good thing is that VirtualDub will remember these settings for your next project but just check them to make sure.Now it's time to set the audio compression. That's if you choose to keep the game audio of course.
So click the Audio button from the tools menu and then click Full processing mode. The Menu will close. Click it again then click "Compression..." Then select MPEG Layer-3 to highlight it in the "Select audio compression" dialogue box then click OK to close it.
All that is left to do is start the processing by clicking File>Save as AVI... rename your video and save it to a convenient location and VirtualDub will now compress your 2 captured vids from 7.8Gb to a high quality AVI file of approximately 500Mb in size. Once it's done, watch it for approval and then upload it to youtube or your favourite video upload site!!!! Ta Da!!!
You done!I would like to add that I usually append three 3.9 Gb files together and the output is about 6-7 minutes of gameplay and size is about 500-700Mb
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) it's always good to have input for other ways to do things. And fraps not being friendly to some computers (lag and such). I do, however like the options I have for processing with Virtual Dub and the Xvid codec. Not sure if wegame can encode with H.263 or H.264 and change brightness and contrast (amongst other effects); Most importantly, following my guide will get you 16:9 aspect ratio and youtube will process it to High Definition widescreen not just HQ (high quality).
, At least it's one time and cheap 
When I figured it out, I searched this forum for other input, found a dead link, hence this sticky. 