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FS2004 serious trouble with video capture

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lucio49

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Hi all,

I have been searching around the forums since some time, but couldn't find any assistance for this issue.
First of all, my FS9 runs fine, on a quite healthy system:

Windows7 Home Premium 64 bit Sp1
Intel Core i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50 GHz 8 GB Ram
Amd Radeon HD 7800 Series

Usually, I can handle most of the troubles myself, be they hardware or software related. Now, this one is really ennoying, and obtuse.
I make flights and save them with FS Recorder.
I use autower as well.
I replay the flights, and record them with Fraps, in order to rework them later in a video program.
The Fraps setting is 29.97 fps, Full size.
My screen is reduced to display an 1280/720 pixels image.
Now, logically, that should result in an image like this:

LUC-PC-2013-oct-26-001.jpg

On my older XP system, I never had a problem with these settings,
but, since quite some time I have this result:

LUC-PC-2013-oct-26-002.jpg

which is completely useless.
After many error searchings, the only workaround I've found to bring back a normal 1280/720 resolution is to delete the FS9.cfg, and let FS9 rebuilt a new one. That works for a moment (between a few minutes and a few hours) but, inevitably, it falls back to a 1280/1024 resolution (2nd image), without warning. I have to check each couple of takes, and if I forget, which happens often, the penalty is there, along with the disapointment of having to throw away tons of "beautiful" images, and back to square 1, close FS9, delete FS9.cfg, rebuilt, redo the settings,etc....It's very time consuming, and quite ennerving.
Maybe someone experienced that sort of issues before, and can come up with a solution?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Luc.
 
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lucio49

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Yes, it is up to date, and runs fine with any other program.
I do think it is somehow FS9 engine/Fs9.cfg related.

Luc
 
vololiberista

vololiberista

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Fraps records in avi format which should be at the same resolution. Where it all seems to go wrong is in the post processing.

I have to resynch the sound in every 4mb fraps clip then join them together and then convert them to a more economical format.

I use virtualdub to rectify the sound and then join and convert them with Free video joiner(original version). I have found converting the avi to mov the only way to preserve the original resolution. The only problem is that in the final result the colours are a little washed out.

It takes a full day to do an hour's worth of video.
 
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