What is a good render software?

So I want to make some video's for youtube and I'm using fraps. Settings are at fullsized so I can get the best quality video. My only problem is the files are huge which is expected but I got a program called avidemux to try and edit the video a bit and that software likes to mess with the recording a bit. Make it seem laggy, won't do files past 4gb. So on and so forth.

So what is a good FREE rendering program I can use to make the size of the file smaller without suffering in quality? This is for minecraft btw.

Any help would be appreciated.

Joe

The reason why Fraps size is so massive is because it quality is "lossless". It records the game exactly like you saw it without compressing it at all, hence the amazing quality. You really need to get a hold of a video editor, it would let you edit your videos and then encode them into smaller size. From good "free" video editors there's only Windows Movie Maker(link and tutorial below) which any Windows user can install for free, it's not amazing but it does it job done.

If you want specifically an encoding(rendering) software to lower your Fraps footage size then get a Handbrake(link and tutorial below). It will let you to simply drag the video into it, select by how much would you like to compress the video, and then starts encoding it.

1. Windows Movie Maker - http://frapsforum.com/resources/windows-live-movie-maker.5
2. Handbrake - http://frapsforum.com/resources/handbrake-compression-a-tutorial.3

Guest