Fraps Captured Video - With/Out Force RGB + Color Corrector - Render Test Sony Vegas

[Thingamajigs]

Cheers for the video mate. Perfect stuff.

[McBlemmen]

i dont see any diffrence at all

[StopkaPeter]

@McBlemmen Of course, first part of this test demonstrated, there are not differences, when your video is recorded via Fraps and you have "Force RGB" on or off, the only changes are the requirements in the performance of your PC.

[Aircatcher2]

I've tried this too with best quality. But it takes 1,24GB for only 1 minute and 28 seconds video!

[StopkaPeter]

@Aircatcher2 Of course, it depends on, what resolution you have when record video, if is recorded in full-size or half-size, how much frames per second you have set (30,50,60,..), if you record a sound, all frames is uncompressed therefore have a large size.

[XenoSpyro]

So what is "Force RGB" for anyway? I've been leaving it on for my videos and haven't really noticed much.

[StopkaPeter]

@XenoSpyro Hi, when is "Force RGB" turned on, your compressed video will have a loss from color space and file size is about 1/3 of raw data rate and when is RGB turned off, then compression is about 1/5. With RGB on will have your fine details more vivid color. Doesn't matter when is RGB on or off, becouse there are not compression artifacts. The only loss is from the color space conversion.

[StopkaPeter]

@XenoSpyro When you encode your video to something like mp4 or h.264 you loss color space from range too. Quality color scale depends on your codec settings. Only turn on RGB, when you have plan put on your video some effect like is chroma key and difference between RGB on and off is slight loss of resolution in the reds and blues.

[XenoSpyro]

@StopkaPeter So since Duke is an old game and can record fine, I could just leave it on for the best image.

[fryedegg]

I am new to vegas (and editing in general) but I have the same issues you must have. When I render my fraps footage into an ACV (or any codec) the end result is alot darker than the original. How do I know if these "output fx's" are working as I render? I set them and what not, but they just sit there in a pop-up box while my video renders. Does that mean they are working?

[StopkaPeter]

@fryedegg Hi, I amater too, but we learn every day :). The problem is that, Sony Vegas uses different gamma internally. You must apply different gamma when you edit and so you get a different gamma on exports. Second problem is the codec. Different codecs, different results. Sony AVC and MainConcept codecs are pretty dark, try use "Video FX - Color Corrector (Secondary) - Computer RGB to Studio RGB"and experiment with gamma to get the most faithfully result comparable with frapsed video.

[OckhamDeRazor]

@StopkaPeter Also, if you want to confirm that your settings are working as intended, it may make sense to do a small sample render, since, while the Vegas preview can give you a fair idea of what the final render is likely to look like, it's not the same as actually rendering and confirming you've had the desired impact. Great tutorial.

[axes2t2]

Awesome quality.

[jobeanie123]

Wow, cool. I like it without color correction though :)

[666CS]

Thanks for the fraps rgb info

[geteatube]

@666CS and sony vegas