Recording pc gaming

Sleinous

Sleinous

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Fraps. remember to convert to XVID after though as fraps dumps to video in zero compression to HDD as the CPu doesnt get time to process what is being recorded in time. Meaning you can be left with a 10min video that exceeds 10GB. Use virtualdub to change it back to xvid
 
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Sweeney47

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I also use fraps its very good but as Sleinous has pointed out it does save uncompressed meaning if you record it with sound you can quickly use up hard drive space, you're potentially looking at several GB for a minutes video depending on quality/size etc.

Providing you have a decent hard drive this shouldnt be an issue and its probably best to keep them uncompressed so when it comes to putting it all together its all compressed the same and at a high quality etc. If you compress it, put it all together then compress it again you get deteriorated quality.

Then again it depends what you want from the output, if top quality isnt an issue then compressing it wont matter :D
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

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By the way, Sweeney, in order for me to upload to YT, I always have to hyper compress mine in XVID, and they dont look great at all. If I dont, and leave quality at 100% it only halves the file size ish. That sstill massively big, how come a DVD is 700MB for 2hrs, and 10 minutes of BFBC2 totals at 5GB even compressed? Im using virtual dub and xvid codec, I must be missings omething, ive watched loads of vids on people doing it with xvid, followed it to the letter, and never get their scale of file size.
 
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Sweeney47

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Don't know im afraid, I use Adobe Premier Pro and I found a 'sweet spot' for quality/size for youtube videos. Unfortunately that was on my old PC which had to be restored since then so I cannot copy the settings. I use the h.264 codec (I think thats what its called and this is the codec Youtube recommends, or at least used to) to compress mine. The only time I've ever used VD was when there was a compatability issue between fraps files and PPro whereby sound wasn't working but that has since been fixed.
 
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Sweeney47

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yeah and its a license for life too so all updates and new releases are free. Its also good for screenshots (for those games that dont automatically save screenshots but merely screen capture) and as a benchmark/FPS monitor.
 
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Sweeney47

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I used Xfire to record a bit when but I found anything over 5 minutes or so and the sound would start desynching that said it was just after release so might be fixed now
 
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zacbed

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Camstudio? You can use your compression setting in there and it isnt as resorce using much as fraps, just minor quality issues with the basic confiquration its set up with, but ffmpeg codec with xvic Yuy2 config, is very good
 
Evil Tactician

Evil Tactician

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We use Fraps to record any gameplay. It does eat hdd space like there's no tomorrow - so it is recommended you edit your video using your favourite video editing software and once finished delete the fraps source files. (Or convert them like mentioned previously in this thread)
 
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