How to upload your StarCraft 2 videos onto youtube

How to upload your StarCraft 2 videos onto youtube

A lot of people believe that you need to have an Intel i7 or the most expensive gpu to upload HD Starcraft 2 videos to youtube. That's not true. All you need is some decent hardware, fraps, divx codec and virtualdub. Currently, the 64-bit version of virtualdub does not support the divx codec. So, get the 32-bit version. Your 64-bit operating system will still support it.

It is widely unknown that videos recorded from fraps are extremely large. One video at 5 minutes of length can get as high as 4 GB. That's not worth waiting for when uploading a video to youtube.

After recording your professionally recorded video, you'll notice that fraps has recorded it into different segments. Open the first file with virtualdub. It's time to take all segments of your production and bring it all together. In virtualdub under file, select append avi file and choose the next segment of your video. Continue doing this until you've brought all the segments together.

Once that's done, under video, select compression and highlight the divx codec. For average computers, select configure and choose 720HD profile. For the rate control mode, the best option to choose will be 1-pass quality based at a quantizer of 5. This will allow decent quality and file size. Once your done, click ok and save your file. At this time, virtualdub will resize and stitch together your video.

This will not only work for Starcraft 2, but will also support many other game platforms as well.

There you have it, your video is ready for youtube. It will be much quicker since it was reduced from a 4 GB video to 200 MB. Enjoy your new upload!

Note: If you have trouble with frame rates while using fraps, set your StarCraft 2 to windowed and set your native desktop resolution to 1280x720. My video below was recorded on medium in game graphics.

Here is a link to an example I made with a Core 2 Duo CPU:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Pio5C9tZE
The video has an audio introduction, so skip to around 3 minutes to see the quality.