How To Make An In-Game Video

Gix · Aug 5, 2007

Well it seems alot of people are wondering how to make an in-game movie..so i thought i would share how i make mine.

First things first, i suggest using FRAPs a trial can be found here.

http://www.fraps.com/download.php

Full Version of FRAPS by MaRKyKraM: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6ZULY0HK

Once you install and run this program you will see this

Now go to the "Movies Tab" and make sure everything looks like this

Now that you have this done, open up DiabloMU (or any other game you want to record)

To verify FRAPs is working you will see two YELLOW

By default when you press F9 on your keyboard FRAPs will start recording and the yellow numbers will turn numbers (this is the current frame rate) RED. Simply press F9 again to stop recording.

By default the file is saved on your desktop, but can be changed as i shown in this picture.

Also as you can see the file recently recorded is fairly large, the next step now is to COMPRESS the video to get ready for uploading on the internet.

In order to compress the video i suggest a free program called Virtual-Dub it can be found here.

For 32Bit operating systems

For 64Bit processors/operating system

Once installed and opened you will see this

Now you want to open the video you captured with FRAPs

Now go to VIDEO--->Compression and select Xvid, [NOTE] If you do not see this it can be downloaded

HERE

Alternately you can choose a different form of compression to see what works for you.

Now go to File-->Save as AVI... now press ok, the file will now be compressed and alot smaller.

Now there are alot of places you can Upload your video, I suggest FileFront.com Because you have the option to download the video plus you can view a preview.

Youtube is also an alternative and so is Google video

Now i've noticed some people in the past have used filefront.com but didn't upload it so you could view a preview. Make sure to log in, then click "upload video" so you can have a streaming preview of the video.

Heres a clip i just took to demonstrate the quality of youtube vs filefront.

First heres one from FileFront

http://files.filefront.com/Testavi/;.../fileinfo.html

and finally youtube.com