How are you doing in your career?

[Moosc]

I just don't play at them. If the ball hits you, you can't get hurt it appears!

Neil W

 

[Gaurav_7]

I have played about 14 T20I innings and have only scored 2 runs!! Very difficult shift this, from domestic to international...

 

[SpitfiresKent]

I have played about 14 T20I innings and have only scored 2 runs!! Very difficult shift this, from domestic to international...

That's pretty bad, what difficulty are you playing on?

 

[mixz0r]

Yeah that is there as you don't get to increase all your skills when you play matches like increasing Backfoot skills and off side as well more...

Man, I haven't played for about 3 weeks but only just figured out you can adjust the bowling machine settings. I've been playing all back foot off side, which is easy now I know I can stop the short balls. Idiot!

 

[wildclaws]

Just started a new career as a specialist batman. I want to play Pro, so started on Rookie and admittedly I can knock it about a bit on that level. So we're 177/0 off 18, 19 overs or something (Pro 40). Opener batsmen gets out, so we're 178/1. We're now 191/8 and I feel ... a bit robbed, really, watching everything go horribly wrong. 5 batsman dismissed for 0, and most off 2-3 balls. Is this the game AI applying some kind of Duckworth-Lewis and deciding I need to lose a load of wickets? 8 wickets in 20-something balls is a collapse even England would be proud of

Edit:I need to re-read the manual and see if there's a button for saying 'what the heck are you doing mate' to your batting partner. Monty Panesar, I never want to see you trying to advance down the wicket and smash a spinner for six!

 

[Chaudhary]

Playing my first list a game on legend difficulty, batting on 56* of 40 balls

 

[dippa]

Interesting, I admittedly know very little about video compression, and I just tend to use Shadowplay to retrospectively record stuff and then chop it up in Sony Vegas, rendering it as a .mp4 "Internet HD 1080p" before putting it on YouTube.

The raw footage that Shadowplay captures is excellent in quality in my opinion, and although what ends up on YouTube is fairly decent, I had just assumed the difference in quality/blurriness was mainly due to converting 60fps footage into a 30fps video... Do you recommend rendering the video differently in Vegas? The feature to retrospectively record is essential to me as I wouldn't actively record everything manually, so Shadowplay/NVENC is probably the only choice.

Here is an example of what it looks like using my method;

Sorry for the off topic.

Yeah, fairly decent is pretty subjective but if you're happy with the quality then you're set, because nothing can churn out footage as good as Shadowplay. I think, personally, for someone just wanting to put stuff up on YouTube who isn't concerned with professional quality - as in, not representing an official website or having a sponsored YT channel or anything like that - Shadowplay is exceptional and should be everyone's first port of call. (Particularly if you have a low-end rig.)

That colour correction is a neat tip that I hadn't thought of before. Like everyone else, I guess, everyone learns on the fly. I'm going to try mucking around with a bit of footage tonight and see what similar result I can get in Premiere Pro.

On the plus side, had a work colleague ask me about the games I'd played this year. He's a cricket fan, so I sold him on DBC 14. I think he'll love it - he likes a good challenge - so I'm looking forward to getting some MP games in with him down the road (Although I've basically avoided MP entirely for a while, I love working through the career way, way too much.)

 

[Deleted member 9102]

Yeah, fairly decent is pretty subjective but if you're happy with the quality then you're set, because nothing can churn out footage as good as Shadowplay. I think, personally, for someone just wanting to put stuff up on YouTube who isn't concerned with professional quality - as in, not representing an official website or having a sponsored YT channel or anything like that - Shadowplay is exceptional and should be everyone's first port of call. (Particularly if you have a low-end rig.)

That colour correction is a neat tip that I hadn't thought of before. Like everyone else, I guess, everyone learns on the fly. I'm going to try mucking around with a bit of footage tonight and see what similar result I can get in Premiere Pro.

On the plus side, had a work colleague ask me about the games I'd played this year. He's a cricket fan, so I sold him on DBC 14. I think he'll love it - he likes a good challenge - so I'm looking forward to getting some MP games in with him down the road (Although I've basically avoided MP entirely for a while, I love working through the career way, way too much.)

Yeah I mostly just stick things on YouTube to save cool moments for myself more than anything in the absence of a replay saving feature in-game, so super HD isn't a priority and I know the vids aren't amazing quality but if there are little tricks I can use to improve them then I'm eager to give them a go. I haven't uploaded anything since that post though but I'll use inertSpark's tips and do some research on what I could do differently next time.

In saying the quality is fairly decent, that's probably just by my standards because it is far better than I could manage with Fraps when I played on PC years ago and the 360 never had any recording features, and stuff like FIFA/Skate's video uploading was in awful quality compared to what I have done so far on PC. Just got back into PC gaming in January since having a 360 since 2007.

This is an example of my 2006 PES PC footage...

 

[dippa]

Yeah that's a bit rough with PES because the game's footage will naturally be blocky after it's encoded twice (once by Vegas/Premiere, another by YT).

Here's some footage from different bitrates. This was all footage I captured just after Shadowplay launched at a VBR of 8mbps-12mbps. Play it at 1080p/full HD, if you can. The full file size was 416mb (for almost 7 minutes).

This was also recorded with Shadowplay but with a VBR of 16-20mbps. The end file size is just under 340mb (2m 50s).

In comparison, this was recorded using OBS to create a lossless file. The render in Premiere Pro used only VBR 6mbps-10mbps and the final file size is 927mb (just over 20 minutes).

When you view them all at 1080p it gives you an idea of what you get for quality/file size on the final render. I have the kind of rig where I never need to go back to Shadowplay. I also ran into occasional audio sync issues (that's why the Frozen Endzone only has a backing soundtrack and not actual in-game sounds) with Shadowplay, which makes OBS very, very attractive.

I think the ideal would be to start with uncompressed footage and then render at somewhere between 12-16mbps. If your upload's good enough, 16-20mbps will get you crystal clear footage, but obviously you have to make sacrifices for your particular setup (Australian upload time being my bugbear).

 

[dippa]

Should add that PES would be blocky not just because of the double encoding but the source footage as well (resolution etc etc).

 

[Deleted member 9102]

Should add that PES would be blocky not just because of the double encoding but the source footage as well (resolution etc etc).

Yeah, that video was uploaded in 2006 and my rig wasn't even that good at the time... Resolution was probably very low and Fraps used to kill the framerate.

Thanks a lot for going into such depth here, it's very useful and informative and I know a lot more now than I did.

My PC now is quite powerful with a GTX 780 and i5 4670k and could possibly handle higher quality footage using OBS (or is that more for SLI setups?), but as I mentioned before I love having the ability to retrospectively record stuff with Shadowplay .

Also, my upload speed is absolutely dire.

 

[dippa]

Yeah, that video was uploaded in 2006 and my rig wasn't even that good at the time... Resolution was probably very low and Fraps used to kill the framerate.

Thanks a lot for going into such depth here, it's very useful and informative and I know a lot more now than I did.

My PC now is quite powerful with a GTX 780 and i5 4670k and could possibly handle higher quality footage using OBS (or is that more for SLI setups?), but as I mentioned before I love having the ability to retrospectively record stuff with Shadowplay .

Also, my upload speed is absolutely dire.

Oh, nice! I'm running SLI 780s with i7-4770K (but then I spent a shitload on my PC when I built it and I deliberately built it for video recording/editing so, well, you get what you pay for).

 

[Deleted member 9102]

SLI 780s! Incredible! Just the one of them has just eaten everything I've thrown at it for breakfast at 1080p. Would love to go SLI and get into multi-monitor/1440p/4K/120Hz or whatever at some point down the line but for now I'm more than happy with the current rig.

 

[inertSpark]

That colour correction is a neat tip that I hadn't thought of before. Like everyone else, I guess, everyone learns on the fly. I'm going to try mucking around with a bit of footage tonight and see what similar result I can get in Premiere Pro.

It's pretty cool. The thing is most recording software do end up washing out the colours and blurring the footage slightly. When you first import the clip into vegas it might initially look ok, but it's only once you see how you can improve it that it becomes apparent how washed out it really is.

For example here's a comparison from screenshots taken directly from the footage using Vegas' clipboard function. To the left is the unmodified footage, and to the right is the footage with my corrections applied and below is the settings applied to the final edit. As you can see it enhances the footage massively, whilst keeping the original colour balance - avoiding any kind of over saturation completely.

 

[PotsnPans]

Just got out for 90 in an ODI against the Aussies. Still got MOTM and won the game but I'm fairly gutted I couldn't get what would have been my first ton for England. Second time I've been out in the 90s now.