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I recently downloaded Mirillis action and I recorded videos to upload to Youtube. I recorded a 30 minute video and it is 30gb. That is huge. 30 GB is a lot and only for a 30 minute video. I think it might be my setting. I was recording counterstrike and I have solid fps but sometimes random fps drop. When I play prison architect, I get 20 to 27 fps and when I play it was a little sluggish. Anyone know how to fix the fps drops too?

When I was recording games, I was using the game mode.
The file format is: AVI
Video size: original
framerate:60
video quality: normal
Bit rate: 100%
Input range: 0-225
check multicore recording
No webcam
No microphone
My audio bitrate is system default
Sound recording: I use wav

Anyone know which one of the option is causing the huge video size. I watch other video and they have small size that is like 5 mb. For some reason the 30 minute video has 60mb when I put it into window movie maker and make it hd, I guess to compress it. For some reason when I use Mirillis Action recording and when I play the video seems to be faster. I also get tons of fps drop when I use mirillis action to record. I search a video for the best setting and it told me to change some of the setting and I guess I have the best setting.

what I am really asking is why are my video sizes so big? How do you make it smaller like I see in other peoples channel? How do you have good fps when you are playing and my fps won't drop?

Video card: NVIDIA GeForce gtx 650 ti boost

Amd phendom(tm) II x4 965 processor. I have 4 of them

windows: window 7

The problem is the video format, you have two options.. either you record your videos using AVI format then convert the videos using the exporter tool within action to upload the file straight into youtube. Basically what it does is, it will create another video in MP4 format with a much smaller size.

Or you can record using MP4 format instead of the AVI format. In my case, i have a AMD videocard so I often use MP4(AMD APP), which simply allows me to record at 1080p.

Greetings.

Does that mean mp4 has the same quality as avi but with smaller size? Is there a way to convert is from avi to mp4 without going to the export function. Because last time used the export function it made me wait an hr and nothing happen and Do you know why everytime I record I get fps drop and when I play it is stuttering and why when I play my video it is so fast?

tonyproduction1 wrote:Does that mean mp4 has the same quality as avi but with smaller size? Is there a way to convert is from avi to mp4 without going to the export function. Because last time used the export function it made me wait an hr and nothing happen and Do you know why everytime I record I get fps drop and when I play it is stuttering and why when I play my video it is so fast?

Almost, MP4 quality will always be a little behind the AVI since it's compressed. If the exporting feature wasn't working try disabling hardware acceleration in your Export Settings.

Or you can use a third party program such as sony vegas or adobe media encoder to encode to smaller file sizes. Most people use h.264 for encoding (which is mpeg4). When encoding the larger the frame rate and screen size the larger your file size will typically be. For instance 1080p will be a larger file size than 720p and 480p. And 60fps will be larger than 29.97 and 23. Though with a larger file size the quality of the video will typically be much better. You do have some control over how big the size can be even with any screen size or frame rate with what's called megabits per second or mbps (for short). You can technically make a 1080p the same size as a 480p video but you will lose a lot of quality in the video. For youtube videos 2.5mbps-5mbps is a decent number for 720p and 8mps for 1080p. And typically you don't want to go over 29.97 fps unless you are doing special videos with slow motion or something.

Encoding your own video files also comes in handy if you want to edit your video in some way. Sony Vegas is good for beginners. Primarily because there are so many youtube tutorials for it because it's cheaper than adobe premiere/aftereffects etc and easier to use. Though not as powerful as Adobe software it makes a good starter for novice video editors. There are other editors though that would probably be cheaper than both these options but not nearly as powerful.

RicochetJ, I watch a video for best setting and he said use 60 fps when you record first person shooter. I wasn't making a slow motion video so I will change to 30fps if it is better. I am also wondering if I use 30fps instead of 60 fps, it will use less space? Instead of 60 frames per second there is only 30 frames

tonyproduction1 wrote:RicochetJ, I watch a video for best setting and he said use 60 fps when you record first person shooter. I wasn't making a slow motion video so I will change to 30fps if it is better. I am also wondering if I use 30fps instead of 60 fps, it will use less space? Instead of 60 frames per second there is only 30 frames

Remember, that it's 30 and 60 frames per second. Those 30 frames add up and can cause a 15-20% or more sometimes increase in file size. That's if you kept the same bitrate for both. And if you didn't you would lose a little quality on the 60fps to bring it down to the same size that the 30 fps would be at. That being said there was a reddit post for twitch where people did some testing and had some interesting results:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments ... ly_better/

For games where large parts of the screen remain motionless, 60fps is significantly better than 30fps.
- This includes many 2d games like Hearthstone and Papers Please.
For games where there is slow movement, 60fps is better than 30fps.
- This includes many 3rd-person games like Brothers and Diablo.
For games where there is significant motion or change on the screen, 30fps is better than 60fps.
- This includes many first-person games where the screen may change hugely in a very short amount of time. This also includes games with many particle effects on-screen.
NOTE: These conclusions apply specifically to the other settings used in the tests (see METHOD section). As the bitrate gets higher the image quality loss will be reduced, meaning 60fps will have the same increased fluidity without the decreased image quality.