Do most people use FRAPS or something else? I have the evaluation FRAPS program and of course you can only record 30 seconds at a time and also the frame rate on the eval copy is not good enough. I don't mind purchasing the full copy if it can produce a good qualtiy recording.
What is the best option for recording ones cutscenes?
Best option for recording cutscene from in game...
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Beerfish
, mai 29 2010 09:47
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Posté 29 mai 2010 - 09:56
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Nothing really comes close to FRAPS for in-game recording. I've purchased my copy years ago and found it to be a great investment. You get all the updates for free and its updated constantly.
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Posté 29 mai 2010 - 11:21
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Thanks Kilrogg, I just needed an endorsement from someone who had it before I purchased it.
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Posté 29 mai 2010 - 11:32
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Xfire has a video capture option that is very good and it is free.
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Posté 30 mai 2010 - 12:24
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TimelordDC wrote...
Xfire has a video capture option that is very good and it is free.
I'll investigate this and see what it's about. I've never heard of it, thanks.
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Posté 07 juin 2010 - 02:49
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Xfire didn't seem to record sound so that is a no go. As for Fraps I wonder if the purchased version has the ability to have better frame rates than the evaluation version. I would be willing to purchase Fraps but the eval version had a poor frame rate when recording my cutsenses.
Edit: Quick other question. Has anyone been successful at running the 'Cutscene Capture' commands as listed in the Toolset wiki?
Edit: Quick other question. Has anyone been successful at running the 'Cutscene Capture' commands as listed in the Toolset wiki?
Modifié par Beerfish, 07 juin 2010 - 02:54 .
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Posté 07 juin 2010 - 03:23
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Low framerate is often caused by the system's cpu, gpu or harddrive speed. If a game itself is demanding, recording it with fraps shakes the system even more. If your system should be fast/modern enough, perhaps the hard drive isn't fast enough to process the recorded frames. Back when I was still recording Project Reality videos (modification for BF2), putting in another hdd did miracles :-).
I don't think there's a difference in framerate between the trial and purchased version - would be really odd if there was.
Other software may record much more smooth than fraps does (like xfire), but I've never come across anything better than fraps really. But, it totally depends on what you want to do.
Other software usually captures lower quality and/or compresses it automatically, making it less nice to work with when video editing. I certainly prefer raw footage (=no compression). Major file size, but best quality.
But again, it depends on what you want to do. If you want to make an HD movie, I'd use highest quality and no compression. But if you want to show some things without wanting to really edit the footage, any other capturing program may do I guess. Still, I stick with fraps. It just gives me what I want, though it can go berserk on your system.
I can run DA:O just fine, but when recording a busy scene, with so many thing happening, fps drops. So lately I've been trying to record using "-capturemovie=movie_test", as it's used in the wiki. Works fine to be honest. A little slow of course, but it gives you a very nice result: best quality you want in the highest resolution your video card (and monitor) can handle, and it's smooth as silk :-).
Every captured frame is saved in .tga format, with a filesize of 3mb or higher. As you understand, that's gonna take quite some space, but then again, so would a recorded .avi (less though, I think, depending on resolution perhaps).
You could put the .tga's into a .avi with virtualdub as mentioned in the wiki. I auto-compress the .tga's to .jpg when "capture movie" is done (through a .bat file). I do it through imagemagick's "mogrify".
I'm not allknowing in this area, I just happened to test it out only two days ago, hence I still have some knowledge left up there
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I don't think there's a difference in framerate between the trial and purchased version - would be really odd if there was.
Other software may record much more smooth than fraps does (like xfire), but I've never come across anything better than fraps really. But, it totally depends on what you want to do.
Other software usually captures lower quality and/or compresses it automatically, making it less nice to work with when video editing. I certainly prefer raw footage (=no compression). Major file size, but best quality.
But again, it depends on what you want to do. If you want to make an HD movie, I'd use highest quality and no compression. But if you want to show some things without wanting to really edit the footage, any other capturing program may do I guess. Still, I stick with fraps. It just gives me what I want, though it can go berserk on your system.
I can run DA:O just fine, but when recording a busy scene, with so many thing happening, fps drops. So lately I've been trying to record using "-capturemovie=movie_test", as it's used in the wiki. Works fine to be honest. A little slow of course, but it gives you a very nice result: best quality you want in the highest resolution your video card (and monitor) can handle, and it's smooth as silk :-).
Every captured frame is saved in .tga format, with a filesize of 3mb or higher. As you understand, that's gonna take quite some space, but then again, so would a recorded .avi (less though, I think, depending on resolution perhaps).
You could put the .tga's into a .avi with virtualdub as mentioned in the wiki. I auto-compress the .tga's to .jpg when "capture movie" is done (through a .bat file). I do it through imagemagick's "mogrify".
I'm not allknowing in this area, I just happened to test it out only two days ago, hence I still have some knowledge left up there
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Modifié par AfterDune, 07 juin 2010 - 03:28 .
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Posté 07 juin 2010 - 08:05
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Thanks AfterDune. I think you have hit the nail with my computer here. My computer is not ancient but also is not top of the line and it's processing limitations is probably the problem.
My goal is to just be able to record short cutscenes or vignettes and post them for viewing.
I'll have to read up on the captuermovie part of the wiki. I am not well versed at all in using those commands or even how to get into a mode to make use of the commands. Any easy step by step tips for a noob on using the capture cutscene commands would be appreciated.
My goal is to just be able to record short cutscenes or vignettes and post them for viewing.
I'll have to read up on the captuermovie part of the wiki. I am not well versed at all in using those commands or even how to get into a mode to make use of the commands. Any easy step by step tips for a noob on using the capture cutscene commands would be appreciated.
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Posté 08 juin 2010 - 02:59
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That wouldnt capture sound either since what it basically does is slow the game down to a very low FPS and take a screenshot of every frame (output in .tga format) that you then string together using a video editing program.
It's the highest quality way of recording video, but its just images, no sound.
It's the highest quality way of recording video, but its just images, no sound.
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Posté 08 juin 2010 - 05:20
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Yeah, it doesn't record sound, you only get a bunch of images from that. If you just wish to record some things to post on youtube, not movie-ish, then I guess any other capture program should do.
Xfire has the ability to record, but it's an instant messenger application first. Still, it does the trick.
Another one is gamecam. I've used it a bit in the past and got nice results from it. You could check it out. It didn't stress out my previous pc. Of course you'll experience a bit of a drop in fps, but certainly not as much as fraps does. Worth a try I guess, if you just want to record some things.
I've heard of "guncam", but never used it.
And then there's WeGame, another capture program.
Xfire has the ability to record, but it's an instant messenger application first. Still, it does the trick.
Another one is gamecam. I've used it a bit in the past and got nice results from it. You could check it out. It didn't stress out my previous pc. Of course you'll experience a bit of a drop in fps, but certainly not as much as fraps does. Worth a try I guess, if you just want to record some things.
I've heard of "guncam", but never used it.
And then there's WeGame, another capture program.
