Hello Ty and Rhythmic. First off,
:welcome
@Ty
Yes! This topic is still supported and I'm happy to answer questions.
I'm wondering how you go about editing your video after you've recorded it? I'm new to virtualdub so I tried some experimentation by trimming the clip and exporting it with different settings but they all seem to expand the beautifully compressed file to an absurd size.
I edit videos in a range of applications from VirtualDub to Vegas. For basic trimming/cutting/joining, though, Vdub is more than enough and by far the most efficient tool IMO. To solve the huge file problem, make sure you select
Video-->Direct Stream Copy in Vdub when trimming and saving clips of your video. This ensures that absolutely no recompression happens, and clips will save about as fast as your hard drive can write data.
So I guess my real question is... How do I take that nice compressed clip, trim it and add the audio that I recorded with the other program while still keeping the clip's high quality and small size for upload to the internet?
You should be able to accomplish this with Vdub. Vdub can add audio to a video file with
Audio-->Audio from other file..., but the duration will need to match and getting things to sync might be a challenge. How exactly does your audio recording solution work?
@Rhythmic
If fullscreen game recording is failing you are probably hitting the hardware overlay problem. Have you tried recording in windowed mode at all? If not give it a shot and that will at least help narrow the problem.
If the start recording command works but stop recording doesn't, sounds like the stop record command isn't configured correctly (though it seems you checked this already) or VirtualDub is just not receiving the command for some reason. Have you tried a test recording of the desktop with Vdub using only the built-in F5 and Esc hotkeys? How about a desktop recording test using the hotkeys with HotkeyP? Have you tried different games? There are lots of variables to sort out, but the problem should be fixable.