Great Quality AVI, Poor Resolution Creating Assembled video in Studio 14

[japentz]

Hello,
I have a Radeon 4870 that captures great video from my game using Fraps 3.0.1. It makes a very clean beautiful AVI

I then use Studio 14 OR Adobe Premier CS3 to trim the clip. I attempt to save or export the clip to HD AVI.

The quality degrades significantly and the resolution of the trimmed clip is extremely fuzzy and poor.

Why is this?

thanks!
japentz

[jagabo]

What codec are you using for your edited clip?

[japentz]

Hello! thanks for replying.

I believe Fraps uses its own codec called Fraps FPS1 codec

I was thinking it might have to do with the codec. Windows media player plays the original AVI beautifully.

Is the codec the problem and is there a free codec coverter somewhere?

As far as the edited clip I'm not sure how to set the codec in either Adobe Premier or Studio 14 or what they use.

Thanks!
japentz

[jagabo]

I was asking about the codec of the files you're producing with Premier or Studio, not the file that Fraps produced.

[japentz]

Hello, I am not sure how to tell what either Studio 14 or Adobe Premier uses. I also tried in simple Windows movie maker (terrible I know).

In all three there was a major degredation of quality. How do I tell what codec they use?

thanks again.

[jagabo]

Use a program like MediaInfo or GSpot to examine the files you made. Post screen of GSpot or a text dump from MediaInfo.

[japentz]

Original AVI file codec Fraps

edited clip MS Video

[poisondeathray]

Use a better export format, like uncompressed AVI, but filesize will be huge .

Use the same resolution as the input (ie. don't downscale)

[jagabo]

edited clip MS Video

That sounds like "Microsoft Video 1" with the fourcc "CRAM"? That's an antiquated codec. Don't expect a lot out of it.

Also be aware that most high compression video codecs use the YUV colorspace and encode colors at 1/4 (1/2 each dimension) the resolution of the grayscale information. So small colored objects get blurry, especially if on a colored background as well. See the sample image in this post: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/315040-Focus-question?p=1948777&viewfull=1#post1948777