Hi, everyone! Yes, it's me again. Just discovered something a little weird and thought I'd ask about it here.
Apparently, even though I've been recording and rendering my videos in 1080p, once they're put up on YouTube, they only go up to 720p. I'm not sure why that would be. Am I doing something wrong in the recording or rendering? Or is it somewhere in the uploading/processing step that I'm not aware of? Or am I just missing some other step entirely?
Here's my environment information below, although to be completely frank, I have no idea how to read that or get useful information from it.
Any thoughts/suggestions/explanations/feedback/whatever are appreciated! Thanks!
What game are you trying to record, Broken Age? If so what are you doing after you recorded the footage. Are you editing it with a video editor, putting the video through some transcoder or simply uploading it on YouTube? If you do any of these things mention what you do exactly.
Also link the sample YouTube video.
The games I'm currently doing are Broken Age, Portal, Thomas Was Alone, FTL, and Noir Syndrome.
I record them at 1920x1080 (except for some reason FTL only goes to 1280x720, still trying to figure that out) and then I put them into Sony Vegas Pro Edit 13, just to make sure the sound levels are right and I can cut out any unnecessary bits at the beginnings and ends. Then I render them in Sony Vegas at 1080 (or in the case of FTL 720). I can find those settings if you need them, I'm just not sure what information you'd need, I'm still learning how Vegas works.
After they're rendered, I put them up on YouTube. Some of them ask if I want to use their "auto-enhance" feature, which apparently does something with the cropping of the video. I'm not sure what exactly that does, but I do it anyway, since it seems to make things look better.
Here's a link to my videos on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/Veggieman87/videos).
I'm still very new at all of this, so I'm not sure where along the line I'm doing something wrong. If the problem comes from what I'm doing in Vegas, I don't know if it's from putting videos into Vegas at all, if it's the settings I'm using before rendering are wrong, or if the rendering is wrong. If it's from how I'm recording it, I'm not sure what I could do differently. If it's from what YouTube is doing, I don't know how to change it back without making things look worse.
Quote from: Veggieleezy on July 14, 2014, 04:16:50 PM(except for some reason FTL only goes to 1280x720, still trying to figure that out)
Specifically FTL (Faster Than Light) will display the game at 720p if you set video option to windowed or full-screen (native) mode. You must set it to full-screen (stretch) if you want to record FTL at 1080p. Though FTL is not really that graphical game for such 1080p demand.
Quote from: Veggieleezy on July 14, 2014, 04:16:50 PMSome of them ask if I want to use their "auto-enhance" feature, which apparently does something with the cropping of the video. I'm not sure what exactly that does, but I do it anyway, since it seems to make things look better.
You should not apply these effects. They are intended to stabilize your footage if your footage is shaking because you weren't holding still the camera. But your video is a video game gameplay footage, not real-life camera footage that's why they are not meant to be used for your case.
Quote from: Veggieleezy on July 14, 2014, 04:16:50 PMI'm still very new at all of this, so I'm not sure where along the line I'm doing something wrong. If the problem comes from what I'm doing in Vegas, I don't know if it's from putting videos into Vegas at all, if it's the settings I'm using before rendering are wrong, or if the rendering is wrong. If it's from how I'm recording it, I'm not sure what I could do differently. If it's from what YouTube is doing, I don't know how to change it back without making things look worse.
Don't worry. I highly advice you to view this the most popular
Dxtory Tutorial video on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw6YAoai8fQ) by JackFrags. It will show you how to set up properly Dxtory, and how should you render your video using Sony Vegas. If you already know how to properly use Dxtory and only wish to learn about the Sony Vegas and the best rendering then fast-forward to
26:08 min part.I personally think you are unintentionally rendering your video with 720p preset when you are using Sony Vegas.
I'll doublecheck what my rendering settings are. I'm pretty sure I have them set to 1080, and I guess maybe the "auto-enhance" has been messing with it somehow? I'll try doing the next video without using that and see what happens.
and you have checked the videos way after they have been uploaded? the higher resolutions come available usually way after the processing is deemed "done".
also, the "auto enhance" is usually just image stabilation etc. basically only intended for phone recorded videos etc.
So using it for game footage is rather silly. :P
Okay, here's my latest video, without using the "enhancements". I recorded and rendered it using the same settings as everything else, but it seems like it's only in 360p for the time being. Perhaps that'll change later on like you said.
But for some reason, now the video has a black box around everything now that it's uploaded? I think that's something that can be affected by the "auto enhancements", because it seems like it adjusts the cropping of the video. I'm not sure, though.
http://youtu.be/wxrVVRJ2oYU
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7484348/Screenshot%202014-07-19%2012.57.59.png)
it seems that either youtube cropped it (doubt it) or you're not recording with actual fullscreen ... OR you have weird cropping/clipping settings in your dxtory. Or your video rendering is doing something weird.
either way, don't use the autoenchancements :)
I am very confused... :-\
Okay, so what it seems is that (at least with Portal), if I use the enhancements, it crops it to fit the full player window, but it gets rid of the 1080 option. If I don't use the enhancements, it can go up to 1080, but it has the little black box around it. I just turned off the enhancements on that video, so it should readjust soon for comparison.
I've made a couple of tweaks that I think(?) might help.
I went back into my "Default" profile and changed the scaling settings to "Size- 1920x1080" instead of "Percent- 100%", and I also clicked on the video setting button (the little yellow arrow at the bottom) and set it to "16:9- 1920x1080 HDTV". Would those changes make a difference, and would changing the default change the rest of my profiles across the board? I'll wait before trying to record anything, just to make sure I don't COMPLETELY break everything.
I would keep the dxtory scaling as "Percent:100%". Since all your games arent 1920x1080, like FTL. You really don't want them all scaled to that resolution :)
The videosetting thingy is only for directshow output, doesn't do any difference to your avi-capture. The directshow output only matters when you want to output your game footage to skype or something.
edit: you could upload a short (like 1 second) sample of your captured video AND rendered video. maybe we can get better idea of whats wrong from those.
Ahhh, that would be a thought. I've also fixed FTL's resolution to be in 1080.
I'll do a quick comparison video in a little bit and put it up here.
...okay, new problem (or rather a different problem that wasn't a problem until now). The rendered video, shown here http://youtu.be/6kIeMaWQIN0 (http://youtu.be/6kIeMaWQIN0) went up just fine, but when I looked at the videos without putting them into Vegas, the audio from my microphone doesn't play. Then when I put it into Vegas, I can hear myself. Should I just upload the captured video straight from my drive, or is there a way to upload the video with audio from Vegas without rendering it?
Edit: here's the non-rendered video anyway, not quite sure what that audio issue is about. http://youtu.be/LdF9tcSjsCk (http://youtu.be/LdF9tcSjsCk)
youtube, as pretty much all video players, only plays back 1 video stream & 1 audio stream. DxTory captures all audio inputs to separate audio streams (tracks) so you can mix them together in editing like you wish.
So uploading a video straight out of dxtory to youtube might not be what you want to do.
But, as that video is "raw" from dxtory and is displayed in 1080p in youtube, your culprit might be your editing/rendering settings.
edit:
but yea, if you render your videos in Vegas, it automatically imports all audiotracks and mixes them together, thats why you can see multiple audiotracks in your project.
Okay, well, at least we know where the fault lies, dear Brutus; not in our stars, but in our software. You may be right that somehow I'm rendering with the wrong setting, because my FTL videos (which came in at 720p) don't have the little black box around them like the ones I did at 1080... Hmm...