fraps 30 second video = 1 gb

DarkTears

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30 seconds of fraps video equals to about a gigabyte of space. Does that even sound right? I cant imagine recording like fifteen minutes.
 
Yeah, FRAPS records to raw AVI files so the file sizes are gargantuan, you can compress them down fairly far though! Managed to get a 2GB avi down to 300mb.
 
Yeah, FRAPS records to raw AVI files so the file sizes are gargantuan, you can compress them down fairly far though! Managed to get a 2GB avi down to 300mb.

I was going to record a scenario from a game that i play called (warhammer) The scenario is 15 minutes long.
So let me do some math.

30 seconds = 1gb
1 minutes = 2 gb
So that means 15 minutes would be 30 gigs? wtf
 
This is what hard drives are for! :P

Depending on the scene captured, 15 Mins can be more than 30GB.

My standard Half Size 30FPS Burnout Paradise Vids (1h - 1.5h) are between 200 & 300GB, They of course can be deleted once you re-render the files and compress them down. Movie maker will do it, although it takes a few decades to get the job done being Single Threaded :P
 
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This is what hard drives are for! :P

Depending on the scene captured, 15 Mins can be more than 30GB.

My standard Half Size 30FPS Burnout Paradise Vids (1h - 1.5h) are between 200 & 300GB, They of course can be deleted once you re-render the files and compress them down. Movie maker will do it, although it takes a few decades to get the job done being Single Threaded :P

What do you mean "being single threaded"?

I currently have a 1TB drive but i dont want to fill it up with uncompressed video. I want to learn how to edit videos and learn to use 3d Studio max and stuff. I think im going to buy another HDD and put it in just for videos i guess. Which is awesome because it will give me a reason to open my case again. Since i built this computer myself i love looking inside of it and stuff lol. Sad but true.
 
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