About AVI and file sizes

[cibergatox]

If asking me, what content you record, is the factor what bitrate you end up with. I always see when doing desktop recording, that Action! rarely detecting full 60 frames or even any, when very little happens on my screen.
I today tried record my desktop and had about same low bitrate as your friend. Then I opened a random video from my library and saw, that the bitrate in my recording, quickly raised the moment to about 60.000 Mbps (1280x1024 60fps).

Try do some desktop recording, play with it and you should see your friend's bitrate.

Yes desktop recordings seem to be smaller files... the thing is how do I record a full screen game and have my files be that small without having to export to mp4? (which is unreadable by sony vegas... and I rather edit with the AVI files...)

[cibergatox]

My friend says he records in all three modes with the same result regarding file size... either he is full of it... or I have not seen an specific option in Action!

[cibergatox]

This is his bit rate on a desktop recording http://gyazo.com/7c93dab84e8811d614ccc8a3b92d833c

Mine is way higher....

Thisis his video fullscreen http://gyazo.com/76f2374a80b71a9106fc68a971e44d8d

[radi]

Higher bitrate = bigger files. The bitrate depends mostly on your graphic settings. Example: If you set Battlefield 4 for Ultra settings it will eat your hard drive second after second due large and complicated graphics displayed on your screen. If you set the details to low you will get lower bitrate and lower file size.

[cibergatox]

Even if the game is Minecraft? Action should have an option to reduce bitrate apart from the game's settings

[cibergatox]

Higher bitrate = bigger files. The bitrate depends mostly on your graphic settings. Example: If you set Battlefield 4 for Ultra settings it will eat your hard drive second after second due large and complicated graphics displayed on your screen. If you set the details to low you will get lower bitrate and lower file size.

OK... tested what you are saying...

Battlefield 3

First Recording:
Clip length: 1:04
Game Settings: All maxed out
File size: 921MB

Screenshot
http://gyazo.com/f833596f29fafdb7b65a4eda14f6a4f1

Saw bit rate reach 170.000Mbps in the Action! Player...


Second recording:
Clip length: 1:10
Game Settings: Lowest possible.
File size: 1.04GB

Screenshot
http://gyazo.com/9914d6a404dd1937cb324dea120ff4d2

Saw bit rate reach 240.000Mbps in the Action! Player...

So... Nope I get the same file sizes no matter what graphics settings I pick inside the game...

[Cauptain]

Game: STREET FIGHTER IV BENCHMARK
Scenario: Ryu vs Sakura
Resolution: 1280x720
Frames: 60fps
Game Profile: All maxed
Time: 1m:10sgs

Result size using Action 16.3 LOW PROFILE quality: 486MB

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General
Complete name                  : D:\CAPTURAS\ACTION\StreetFighterIV_Benchmark 23-10-2013 01-51-47_LOW.avi
Format                         : AVI
Format/Info                    : Audio Video Interleave
File size                      : 487 MiB
Duration                       : 1mn 10s
Overall bit rate               : 58.3 Mbps

Video
ID                             : 0
Format                         : FICV
Codec ID                       : FICV
Duration                       : 1mn 10s
Bit rate                       : 56.7 Mbps
Width                          : 1 280 pixels
Height                         : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio           : 16:9
Frame rate                     : 60.000 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)             : 1.025
Stream size                    : 473 MiB (97%)

Audio
ID                             : 1
Format                         : PCM
Format settings, Endianness    : Little
Format settings, Sign          : Signed
Codec ID                       : 1
Duration                       : 1mn 10s
Bit rate mode                  : Constant
Bit rate                       : 1 536 Kbps
Channel count                  : 2 channels
Sampling rate                  : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                      : 16 bits
Stream size                    : 12.8 MiB (3%)
Alignment                      : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration           : 10 ms (0.60 video frame)

Result size using Action 16.3 HIGH PROFILE quality: 839MB

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General
Complete name                  : D:\CAPTURAS\ACTION\StreetFighterIV_Benchmark 23-10-2013 01-53-23_HIGH.avi
Format                         : AVI
Format/Info                    : Audio Video Interleave
File size                      : 840 MiB
Duration                       : 1mn 10s
Overall bit rate               : 100 Mbps

Video
ID                             : 0
Format                         : FICV
Codec ID                       : FICV
Duration                       : 1mn 10s
Bit rate                       : 98.4 Mbps
Width                          : 1 280 pixels
Height                         : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio           : 16:9
Frame rate                     : 60.000 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)             : 1.780
Stream size                    : 826 MiB (98%)

Audio
ID                             : 1
Format                         : PCM
Format settings, Endianness    : Little
Format settings, Sign          : Signed
Codec ID                       : 1
Duration                       : 1mn 10s
Bit rate mode                  : Constant
Bit rate                       : 1 536 Kbps
Channel count                  : 2 channels
Sampling rate                  : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                      : 16 bits
Stream size                    : 12.9 MiB (2%)
Alignment                      : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration           : 10 ms (0.60 video frame)

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LOW to HIGH is 73% more size/bitrate.



Claudio

[cibergatox]

On Low settings in BF3 and LOW on Action:

http://gyazo.com/33f912f5e5f34dab34982b8feb1d6a4d

Bit rate went up to: 170.000Mbps
Length: 1:07
Size: 855MB

On Ultra settings in BF3 and LOW settings on Action:
http://gyazo.com/253b1010b669379898b3d958cc55e2a7

Bit rate went up to: 140.000Mbps
Length 1:18
Size: 927MB




I don't understand...

[cibergatox]

Anything Radi?

[radi]

Anything Radi?

No idea, usually when I set my graphics to low I get lower files size. Same for "Low quality" in Video Recording settings. Try contacting our support team via support@mirillis.com. They should help you out.