[Luponius]

Hello there, I've made a thread before regarding my soon to become computer, and I got very good feedback. I figured I'd move on and ask another pretty important question that I've been stuck upon for a while now...

Video Recording. And what that I mean screen capturing. To be even more specific, high quality game recording, including its sounds. I need a software which can effectively record gameplay at VERY HIGH QUALITY, with VERY GOOD COMPRESSION (does not make the videos take forever to load on youtube). I can't say I know anything about recording - both video and audio I'm pretty clueless, but I'm very serious about all of this, and I'd like to have some suggestions, especially cheap, affordable ones, and feel free to mention the "monsters of recording" as well if you have them in mind.

One thing I want to make sure is it indeed records efficiently very high quality, high frame rate videos, records the game's audio, and possibly my own speech through an external microphone. If it can't do all three at once, I'd very much like to get a few pointers to how to get all 3 of them mixed up together in the final result. As reference, the computer I'll have in a couple of weeks will consist of:

Asus Sabertooth x58
Core i7 950 (3.06Ghz) Quad core
Gainward NVidia GTX 580
6Gig (3x2Gig) DDR3 RAM @ 2000Mhz
2TB of Hard disk Drive Space (FAEX1002 1TB WD Caviar Black x2)

[coastie65]

Luponius, on 03 February 2011 - 02:59 PM, said:

Hello there, I've made a thread before regarding my soon to become computer, and I got very good feedback. I figured I'd move on and ask another pretty important question that I've been stuck upon for a while now...

Video Recording. And what that I mean screen capturing. To be even more specific, high quality game recording, including its sounds. I need a software which can effectively record gameplay at VERY HIGH QUALITY, with VERY GOOD COMPRESSION (does not make the videos take forever to load on youtube). I can't say I know anything about recording - both video and audio I'm pretty clueless, but I'm very serious about all of this, and I'd like to have some suggestions, especially cheap, affordable ones, and feel free to mention the "monsters of recording" as well if you have them in mind.

One thing I want to make sure is it indeed records efficiently very high quality, high frame rate videos, records the game's audio, and possibly my own speech through an external microphone. If it can't do all three at once, I'd very much like to get a few pointers to how to get all 3 of them mixed up together in the final result. As reference, the computer I'll have in a couple of weeks will consist of:

Asus Sabertooth x58
Core i7 950 (3.06Ghz) Quad core
Gainward NVidia GTX 580
6Gig (3x2Gig) DDR3 RAM @ 2000Mhz
2TB of Hard disk Drive Space (FAEX1002 1TB WD Caviar Black x2)

Hi Lupo, The best I can do at the moment is point you to this review of various Screen Capture Software. I am not personally familiar with any of it though. http://screen-captur...tenreviews.com/ I suppose others will come in with some suggestions as well. The one at $49.95 USD seems to have gotten the best reviews. The problem would be finding it in Europe.

[Luponius]

Thanks for the reply, after digging here and there it seems that what most people use and seem to stick to is FRAPS. The latest version allows to not only sync game sound with the game's video, but also to record an external input, such as my headset's microphone. This way it's all done in one go.

One "problem" is the file size. A 10 minute video capture can easily come out to about 14Gigabytes of avi data. The good news is, after rendering and compressing the movie, it shrinks down greatly, while retaining high quality.

It's not free of course, but unless I find something that sounds better, I'll be going for this =]

[coastie65]

Luponius, on 04 February 2011 - 05:15 AM, said:

Thanks for the reply, after digging here and there it seems that what most people use and seem to stick to is FRAPS. The latest version allows to not only sync game sound with the game's video, but also to record an external input, such as my headset's microphone. This way it's all done in one go.

One "problem" is the file size. A 10 minute video capture can easily come out to about 14Gigabytes of avi data. The good news is, after rendering and compressing the movie, it shrinks down greatly, while retaining high quality.

It's not free of course, but unless I find something that sounds better, I'll be going for this =]

That was the one I was trying to remember. Couldn't and did an online search and came up with that link. You are right in that FRAPS seems to be the one of choice.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 04 February 2011 - 06:03 PM

[Luponius]

coastie65, on 04 February 2011 - 06:03 PM, said:

Luponius, on 04 February 2011 - 05:15 AM, said:

Thanks for the reply, after digging here and there it seems that what most people use and seem to stick to is FRAPS. The latest version allows to not only sync game sound with the game's video, but also to record an external input, such as my headset's microphone. This way it's all done in one go.

One "problem" is the file size. A 10 minute video capture can easily come out to about 14Gigabytes of avi data. The good news is, after rendering and compressing the movie, it shrinks down greatly, while retaining high quality.

It's not free of course, but unless I find something that sounds better, I'll be going for this =]

That was the one I was trying to remember. Couldn't and did an online search and came up with that link. You are right in that FRAPS seems to be the one of choice.

Thanks for your support =D

[l330]

Luponius, on 03 February 2011 - 02:59 PM, said:

Hello there, I've made a thread before regarding my soon to become computer, and I got very good feedback. I figured I'd move on and ask another pretty important question that I've been stuck upon for a while now...

Video Recording. And what that I mean screen capturing. To be even more specific, high quality game recording, including its sounds. I need a software which can effectively record gameplay at VERY HIGH QUALITY, with VERY GOOD COMPRESSION (does not make the videos take forever to load on youtube). I can't say I know anything about recording - both video and audio I'm pretty clueless, but I'm very serious about all of this, and I'd like to have some suggestions, especially cheap, affordable ones, and feel free to mention the "monsters of recording" as well if you have them in mind.

One thing I want to make sure is it indeed records efficiently very high quality, high frame rate videos, records the game's audio, and possibly my own speech through an external microphone. If it can't do all three at once, I'd very much like to get a few pointers to how to get all 3 of them mixed up together in the final result. As reference, the computer I'll have in a couple of weeks will consist of:

Latest version of Fraps (3.3) will do all of the above and much more.So, your best and only choice is fraps.One thing you gotta remember though is that Fraps record high quality videos,loseless, to be specific.So, you must have huge amount of HDD space and also you will need to know little bit about video editors so that you can compress the videos.Because uploading raw videos captured by Fraps on youtube is kinda stupid because file size are huge.So, either import them into a video editor (like vegas,AfterFX,movie maker) and then render them with your choice of compression (MP4 or WMV for youtube).Or You can download video converter like AVS video converter and compress the videos quickly and easily.Hope this helps a little