uumh, google translation sounds somehow strange as usual
Maybe this homegrown translation ist better understandable :
This is a short tutorial on howto record videos in Freelancer.
The complete tutorial can be found at
http://freelancer.mipu.de/freelancer-14.html.
What you need :
FRAPS (
www.fraps.com )
VirtualDub (
www.virtualdub.org )
DivX codec (
www.divx.com )
TMPGenc (
www.tmpgenc.net )
All tools are freeware.
Fraps is a tool to show framerates in many games, but it can also be used to record videos of most games, even those based on DirectX. There are freeware-version of FRAPS and also a commercial one.
Version 1.9a is for TNT/TNT2-based VGA-cards, Fraps 1.9d is for Geforce/Radeon. You can get those at
www.fraps.com. Unfortunately it is only possible to record in 640x480 resolution and without sound.
The commercial version can record in higher resolutions and with sound. It may be that you have to download an additional codec, which you can get here :
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts ... dinstl.exe
Fraps will record uncompressed AVI-files, so files are growing fast in a short time. Depending on the performance of your hardware, it is possible to record with different framerates.
Prior to recording, you should adjust Freelancer to 800x600 resolution.
Unfortunately it is not possible to run Freelancer in 640x480, so there will be some loss.
Within Fraps you can setup the key to start and stop recording. You should use a key not used in Freelancer for this, maybe F12.
Videos are beeing stored in the directory you used to install Fraps.
To compress the videos, you can use VirtualDub. You will also need a codec for compression, preferably DivX. First install DivX, then VirtualDub.
Open the video file in VirtualDub.
Use Video - > Compression - > select DivX codec. "save as Avi", finished.
This will reduce video size substantially.
With VirtualDub you can also reduce the size of videos, e.g. of 640x480 to 320x240.
To accomplish this, use in VirtualDub "Video - > filter - > ADDS - > resize - > filter mode - > bicubic"
With the filters you can realize many picture manipulations too. In addition you can also cut the videos in VirtualDub.
A video sequence of 130 MB in umcompressed 640x480 reduces this way to merely 2 MB in compressed 320x240.
If you want to play your videos as a VCD in DVD players, you should get a copy of TMPgenc, a freeware capable of converting the videos to standard MPEG-1 format 352x288 pixel.