Video Game FRAPS Recordings - Blurry Videos - Compression Help!

[ItsJono]

Hello everyone,

I love video games and well I have a pretty powerful computer so I tend to record some live Video Game footage with the popular software, FRAPS...

Okay so anyway, my problem is that after encoding the RAW video footage from FRAPS, then uploaded to YouTube, the videos look blurry. I know that upon uploading to YouTube the videos are recompressed for conversion to .flv format but I was wondering if you guys knew how to make my video recordings clearer than they already are:

Here is a sample video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mwpRKfRlrs

Please view it in 720P mode so that you see what i'm talking about.

Note about video: In order to get the black bars on the left and right OFF my YouTube videos, I lowered my resolution from 1680x1050 to 1280x768 in hopes of being able to have perfect 720p~ videos uploaded to videos, but sadly I just learned that 1280x768 is 15:9, not 16:9 so, again, my videos have black bars around them. I know understand that if I wanted to downsize it to 720 well, i'd need to use 1380x768 since it is 16:9 aspect ratio (or at least to my understanding).

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Here are my encoder settings for SONY VEGAS 9: