Pluses (+) and minuses (−) of this day

[saerleiya]

+ Well I just ended up successfully uploading it in two parts. But I will take a look at Handbrake, perhaps to at least reduce the filesize of my .avi files

I've tried recording with compressors, but some make the background go pixellated and others make the emulator lag very badly.

I may be able to help you a bit with this. But I need some information:

- Which recording software are you using?
- What is the resolution of your screen/game while you are recording?
- What is the format or your video file after the session (I'm asking but I guess it's probably .avi)?
- Which video-making software are you using?
- What are the usual settings you are usually using in it (like 720p/480p/whatever, and 20/25/30/60fps)?
- Which rendering settings are you using?

If you are uploading the video on YT, best rendering settings are usually 720p/30fps, but it will change soon (I heard YT is preparing 1080p and 60fps somewhere). MP4 format is also pretty good as it is not too heavy to render and to upload. But sometimes you will have to play with your settings if your original video files/project is not in the same category, as the time required for your rendering to be completed is really impacted if there are a lot of differences between video/project/rendering parameters.

Having softwares which can convert .avi to smaller format like MP4 is good, because .avi are fucking heavy (like, 1GB/min for 720p/30fps, and even more for bigger resolutions). Having a recording software which can do it at the same time is even better, because it will usually be designed to convert .avi into easier-to-use formats. Of course, if you don't have one like that, softwares like SUPER are good to convert files to the format you want them, but I don't really know if it is more or less efficient than an equivalent function available into a recording software.

The other annoying one is waiting about 30-45 minutes for a video to render, only to find that the compression is really lousy, and you've wasted your time. -_-

If you aren't sure your video will be good, then render only 2/3 minutes of it as a sample and take a look at it. It should be more efficient that way as you will be able to see if you screwed it up somewhere or if it's good enough for you to render the entire video.
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-/+ trying to find a job as I just graduated (kinda). But focusing on big companies is not helping: most of them are asking for very high-caliber resumes and already-existing professional experience, which is something a "beginner" doesn't have.
+ Some offers seem okay for me.
+ I'm lazy to apply directly tonight so I'm posting on RPC to compensate XD.

[Electoon]

-- The university automatically took a large sum of money from my account and now I'm in overdraft with no money at all
-When I started typing this, a large crane fly appeared in my room
+ My timetable no longer clashes

~I really need to get back to trying to find a good render for my Rayman CP vids~

[Earth Gwee]

+ Met with my math coach today. He helped me understand slightly more about linear expressions.

- I'm still struggling with distributive properties though. I hate math.

[Indy]

+ Had a good time at school this afternoon
++ Went shopping after that.
- Unmotivated at the moment.

[THEdragon]

- Which recording software are you using?
- What is the resolution of your screen/game while you are recording?
- What is the format or your video file after the session (I'm asking but I guess it's probably .avi)?
- Which video-making software are you using?
- What are the usual settings you are usually using in it (like 720p/480p/whatever, and 20/25/30/60fps)?
- Which rendering settings are you using?

I'm using VisualBoyAdvance's recorder. It only records as .avi files, unfortunately. I record in full frames but only at a very small resolution, 240 X 160. I don't know what the framerate is but I have tried other compressors. Like I said, they either ruin the background of the game in the recording or they make it so laggy it's unplayable. As for video editing software, well, I use Windows Live Movie Maker.

Not that there's really anything wrong with it, it works fine for what I use it for. The only reason the full video wouldn't upload to YouTube is because it was over 20 minutes long, and until I validate my YouTube account I can only upload videos 15 minutes long or less.

- Two exams today!
+ They're from the two easiest subjects, though, so I'm not worried.

[Adsolution]

Rayman CP vids~

sicko

[THEdragon]

Oh gosh Adsolution it took me a moment to get that but now I'll never look at that abbreviated title the same again.

- The calculator-assumed section of my maths exam was harder than I expected.
+ At least the whole class agreed on that.
+ The art exam was easy.
- Physics exam tomorrow! I hate that subject with a burning passion and I am absolutely terrible at it!

[saerleiya]

and until I validate my YouTube account I can only upload videos 15 minutes long or less.

Then what are you waiting for? Do it .

Movie Maker is fine for this kind of video, but if you want to make some video-editing at some point, you'd better try Sony Vegas Pro or Adobe Premiere (the former is the easiest to handle for beginners in video-editing).

[THEdragon]

and until I validate my YouTube account I can only upload videos 15 minutes long or less.

Then what are you waiting for? Do it .

Movie Maker is fine for this kind of video, but if you want to make some video-editing at some point, you'd better try Sony Vegas Pro or Adobe Premiere (the former is the easiest to handle for beginners in video-editing).

- Can't validate, my mobile phone won't receive the text message for some reason and I don't wanna use the automated voice message because I really don't like using phones..

Those sound like good programs but they sound hella expensive too. I only ever use free downloadable stuff because I have no job or money of my own.

[Adsolution]

Those sound like good programs but they sound hella expensive too. I only ever use free downloadable stuff because I have no job or money of my own.

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5888412/ ... ated_DeGun

It's pre-activated/portable so it doesn't require any cracking, quite small (100 MB), and it's all just one EXE file, no installation. It works perfectly, I've been using this torrent for years now. Sometimes you have to Run as Administrator for it to start up for some reason, but maybe that's just me.

- The Wwise SDK is being a fool, I really don't like installers that download at the same time. This one can't even find the files on its own servers.

[Shrooblord]

I had that problem with the Maya downloader too, except that it went wrong at install, and as such, kept redownloading its files to retry installing. Got it to work with a manual download but uh...

[THEdragon]

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5888412/ ... ated_DeGun

It's pre-activated/portable so it doesn't require any cracking, quite small (100 MB), and it's all just one EXE file, no installation. It works perfectly, I've been using this torrent for years now. Sometimes you have to Run as Administrator for it to start up for some reason, but maybe that's just me.

+ Yar-har fiddle-dee-dee, thanks for the torrent link!

[PluMGMK]

– I'm offended by the remark that anyone could "hate" Physics.
+ Though I'm kind of getting fed up with it myself. Still, it shouldn't take too much to reignite my passion…

[THEdragon]

- Twice in a row my laptop failed to load my user profile and instead loaded a temp profile.
- I swear this machine's nearing its end.
- When I finally loaded my proper user profile, a bunch of my desktop icons were gone!
+ Turns out it only deleted shortcuts. The ones I actually planned on using I easily restored.
+ Nothing was really lost.

[Adsolution]

– I'm offended by the remark that anyone could "hate" Physics.
+ Though I'm kind of getting fed up with it myself. Still, it shouldn't take too much to reignite my passion…

Oh, I'm sure they just hate the mandatory practice. I'm sure they love the concept and the knowledge gained from it, as well as the practical application.

[Shrooblord]

Physics is awesome. The way it's taught at schools is ready for improvement.

[THEdragon]

- I probably failed the physics exam.
+ I don't care.
+ My chemistry exam isn't until Monday.
- Chemistry exam

[saerleiya]

Ah, I can understand people not liking Physics, because I understand that there are people who don't have the same tastes as mine.

buttbuttbutt...Physics is so guuuuud!

+ Going to Westphalie around noon with my girlfriend :3.

[THEdragon]

Perhaps I worded that incorrectly. I like the concept of physics itself, but the subject at school can go jump down into a deep pit and calculate the final velocity at which it falls into the fiery lakes of the underworld. I used to love learning about particles and space and stars and stuff like that but school just sucked all my passion away and left me feeling like I'd just rather not know.

+ I'm drawing an actual full drawing again. Haven' done that in a while.
+ My mum was browsing Instagram and we saw a dog that looks almost identical to the younger of our two dogs.

[PluMGMK]

May I ask what exactly about the subject turned you off?

± A Linear Algebra lecture is about to start, yet I'm posting!