Poor clip playback quality

[Guest]

I made several recordings using Fraps during game play. The original files
play fine and are of good quality but when I send them to the story line and
play them the text is so poor (missing so many pixels) that they can't be
read and render them useless. This also makes editing the clips near
impossable. Is this normal and will it correct it self in the end product or
could I be doing something wrong?

 

[Rehan]

Its easy to check by creating a new temporary project and saving a 5 second
clip from your recorded video. If you select the frame-size of the final
video to be the same as the video you recorded, you should get
pixel-by-pixel mapping and hence a good quality. Bitrate of the final video
would also matter.

 

[Guest]

Rehan ty for your replay.
My in game recordings have to be 800x600 as thats what the game requires.
I'v tried changing the frame size but I don't seem to be able to duplacate
the size. I'll try playing with it some more and see what happens.
Again thank you.

Gene

 

[Rehan]

Note that you may need to employ a custom profile for saving your video.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/customprofile.mspx