It wasn't THAT long of a recording, but with RecondMyDesktop and three monitors, that's almost 300gb. No wonder it takes AGES to encode these things.
@worldsendless Oh, wow. Did you need to record all three??
@trinsec Now I'm getting nervous. I haven't started yet. However, I think the fact that for chunks of the movie two of the monitors don't change is reflected in the compression rate there. The actual files, once it's done encoding, are about a ninth the size.
@worldsendless Mmm, you mean that the static nature of the other 2 monitors will influence the compression artifacts on the main recorded monitor that you'll encode? That might be a possibility, I've never done a recording of multiple monitors before.
I've done multiple videos in one screen before (and it's fun), but a gigantic one that'll get cropped to the areas of interest? Nope.
Protip, if you use Handbrake over the result, you can usually reduce the size even more without too much quality loss!
@trinsec Nice recommendation on HandBrake!
Yes, I believe that RecordMyDesktop compression (or is it ogv?) does factor in identical portions of frames and generalize them, like any good text compression algorithm does.
I've also been told that OBS might have some perks for me here, so when I finish this batch I'll give OBS and HandBrake a try
@worldsendless Aha. Well, the possibility is still that you could've done 3 seperate recordings and then add the video files in the video editor as desired. But that'd still be a large file combined anyway, so yeah. Might be a bit easier to work with RAM-wise maybe. Heh, lemme know how the post-processing goes.