[Tips]Lossless recording-using x264vfw  

[Tips]Lossless recording-using x264vfw

* Before you begin, you need to install the x264 codec and you can find the instructions in the following link.

(http://cafe.naver.com/ohsoft/618)

Click on CODEC menu of OHCAM and click on the external codec menu item.

Check Use External Codec, select the x264vfw codec and click the Settings button.

 
Based on the x264vfw default setting, change the yellow box in the figure below as shown.


The parts that are changed are as follows.

Preset-Ultrafast (Set to improve encoding speed and can increase file size, but other options will cause more racks.)

Profile-High 4: 4: 4 (Changes to High 444 for lossless encoding as the default profile may lose video quality.)

Keep input colorspace-Maintains the color space of the internally received buffer. (Other options may cause encoding to fail.)

Rate control-Single pass-lossless-Change for lossless encoding.

Press the OK button to apply the setting.


Since the settings are applied to x264vfw64 for 64-bit when recording 64-bit games, run x264vfw-Configure x264vfw64 from the Start menu and set them as shown above.

If you record with the above settings, you will be recording losslessly, where the important part is to change the settings of the video player to play lossless video losslessly.

The following shows how to check the lossless video based on the next pot player.

After launching the next pot player, click Preferences (F5).

 

 
In the environment setting window

Click Image-Colorspace / Properties on the left, and then select Convert directly if possible-Change to default output colorspace in the Colorspace group box on the right. (If this setting is not made, the color of the screen will be lost when playing the video even if the recording is lossless.)


Press OK and play the video recorded without loss.

At this time, if you press Ctrl + F1 on the next pot player, the video codec output format must be output in RGB (32 Bits) as shown below.


In addition, the properties below should be identical in the Playback Information-File Information tab as shown in the following figure.

Format profile: High 4: 4: 4 Predictive @ L3
Color space: RGB
Color range: Full
Matrix coefficients: RGB


Please note that Windows Media Player does not play properly and the preview thumbnail is not displayed in Windows Explorer.



Additional tips

[Tips]In Windows 7 and later, useful tips during microphone recording

1. If you want to record microphone only, and then click the sound button in the orchestra-time main window, you can disable the check to the recording of the sound system.

 

2. If the sound is too small microphone

 

[Start] menu - [Control Panel] - After you click, click sound Recording tab, in the list of the recording device, and then double-click the microphone you are using, and then open the properties of the microphone.

Then, at the level tab as follows, using the size and microphone boost of basic volume of the microphone, you will be able to increase the size of the microphone. 

 

3. too large sound recording systems, when the sound of the microphone can not hear, 

 

In this case, to have to give the sound of the system, you can reduce in the following manner. 

 

- If there are options that can be used to adjust the volume on the program for reproducing the sound from the computer during recording, and to reduce the sound by adjusting the volume, the size of the system sounds that are recorded at the time of recording is reduced you. 

- Forced the program to play a sound, if you can not reduce the volume, the tray icon by clicking on the shape of the speaker with the right button, and then click Open Volume Mixer. 

 

Can see the list of programs that are playing the current sound as follows, so you can adjust the volume size of the program, you can adjust smaller. 

(However, it does not reduce the size of the recorded sound by reducing the volume of the speakers must be to reduce the volume size of each program.) 

 

4. You can better the sound quality of the microphone, to completely eliminate the noise, buy a professional audio interface, and according to it you can expect a good sound quality when you also purchase the microphone. 

In a typical microphone for noise or lot, poor sound quality, in terms of software, since it is impossible to improve the sound quality, it is necessary to purchase a good hardware devices. 


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