filming program

[The Slayer]

I was wondering, what kinda filming programs do u guys use for filming from your screen. i only use 2. hyper cam and xfire. but there both without sound. So i want a filming program wich can also record the sound of your screen. if u know what i mean

thanks all

~The Slayer

 

[Passerby]

for what game or just recording your desktop.

source games have there own built in recorder

 

[Simon]

Fraps, used to have camtasia, and now xfire

 

[Ph?bus]

for what game or just recording your desktop.

source games have there own built in recorder

From my experiences, Source Recorder sucks.

I use Fraps.

 

[Seto~]

Fraps. Works great. but make sure you have something to change its format after you're done recording. Also, does anybody know if theres a way to prevent it from making a new file mid recording. I have the paid version, and it makes a ton of files (Ranging around 3gb each) this happens if I leave it on for a while. say 1-2 minutes at 60fps full screen is about 3gb. And it hits that file size and makes a new file. It doesn't stop recording or anything though. its just wierd. anybody know how to fix said problem?

 

[Ph?bus]

Fraps. Works great. but make sure you have something to change its format after you're done recording. Also, does anybody know if theres a way to prevent it from making a new file mid recording. I have the paid version, and it makes a ton of files (Ranging around 3gb each) this happens if I leave it on for a while. say 1-2 minutes at 60fps full screen is about 3gb. And it hits that file size and makes a new file. It doesn't stop recording or anything though. its just wierd. anybody know how to fix said problem?

What do you need a 60fps video for? Tone it down to 30fps

 

[Seto~]

What do you need a 60fps video for? Tone it down to 30fps

I was ridiculously bored and curious of the outcomes? ^^

 

[Simon]

With fraps you need a decent processor to keep your game from lagging. I also cap mine at 30FPS, which is movie speed i believe.


You also want a large amount of hard drive space available. It can be like 5GB for 3 minutes of recording.

 

[Lehsyrus]

http://www.wegame.com/download/

http://www.gamecamportal.com/

Those are two free ones. I heard wegame is amazing and just as good as fraps.

 

[Ph?bus]

With fraps you need a decent processor to keep your game from lagging. I also cap mine at 30FPS, which is movie speed i believe.


You also want a large amount of hard drive space available. It can be like 5GB for 3 minutes of recording.

Film speed is 24fps, while tv is 30fps.

 

[Passerby]

From my experiences, Source Recorder sucks.

I use Fraps.

it is much more complex to use but the quality is much better than fraps and it has no performance hit during recording.

 

[Ph?bus]

it is much more complex to use but the quality is much better than fraps and it has no performance hit during recording.

ORLY?!
Am I going to have to make comparison vids?
Source Recorder sucks compared to Fraps, at least for me.

 

[Simon]

ORLY?!
Am I going to have to make comparison vids?
Source Recorder sucks compared to Fraps, at least for me.

I think source recorder has a short lag for like 2 seconds, then its good.

 

[Passerby]

ORLY?!
Am I going to have to make comparison vids?
Source Recorder sucks compared to Fraps, at least for me.

with comparison vids at 30fps you will olny see a difference in the colorspace everything else will be lossless source recording wins out because you can record at any fps you want and still get a prefect video even if your comp cant handle it at the said FPS.

really dont start a argument about this, this is just 2 points of view.

fraps is simple and just works but has a performance hit source recorder takes some effort to use but can be used for more advanced things and has no performance hit.

 

[Simon]

with comparison vids at 30fps you will olny see a difference in the colorspace everything else will be lossless source recording wins out because you can record at any fps you want and still get a prefect video even if your comp cant handle it at the said FPS.

really dont start a argument about this, this is just 2 points of view.

fraps is simple and just works but has a performance hit source recorder takes some effort to use but can be used for more advanced things and has no performance hit.

Very true. fraps caps your FPS, which makes taking the gameplay more difficult

 

[Passerby]

Very true. fraps caps your FPS, which makes taking the gameplay more difficult

also it can be nice to be able to record at high fps for some video editing effects.

 

[Ph?bus]

I'm going to have to make a video in source recorder to show you what I'm talking about. -.-
It's laggy as hell, and it's damn near impossible to watch.

 

[Darklethal12]

I'm going to have to make a video in source recorder to show you what I'm talking about. -.-
It's laggy as hell, and it's damn near impossible to watch.

It's slow because it's rendering at the best quality possible. The real-time preview can't handle it, but the actual output is smooth, and is quite literally, the highest quality possible (Without importing the models into a raytracing/modeling program, but that takes ages, and you have to manually pose everything.)

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lTL5DeYoyw&feature=related[/ame]

To the origional poster: Source Recorder saves sound 100% of the time, no matter what. As far as recording sound otherwise, you need a stereomix device on your sound card.

 

[Passerby]

I'm going to have to make a video in source recorder to show you what I'm talking about. -.-
It's laggy as hell, and it's damn near impossible to watch.

your doing something wrong than everything iv done with it is prefect sometimes even smoother than it was while playing the game.

the reason why it is flawless at any fps and at any quality settings is that it renders it 1 frame at a time and renders all of them perfect.

 

[Ph?bus]

It's slow because it's rendering at the best quality possible. The real-time preview can't handle it, but the actual output is smooth, and is quite literally, the highest quality possible (Without importing the models into a raytracing/modeling program, but that takes ages, and you have to manually pose everything.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lTL5DeYoyw&feature=related

To the origional poster: Source Recorder saves sound 100% of the time, no matter what. As far as recording sound otherwise, you need a stereomix device on your sound card.

Ever after it's recorded and turned into an .avi file, it's still laggy as hell.

your doing something wrong than everything iv done with it is prefect sometimes even smoother than it was while playing the game.

the reason why it is flawless at any fps and at any quality settings is that it renders it 1 frame at a time and renders all of them perfect.

I know what it does, you don't have to explain it to me.

But let's see, no performance hit with Source Recorder?
Hm, let's see, I was playing with about 40-110 fps in TF2 (I was in a spawn room), and then I hit the record button for Fraps. Great. Slowed down to 18-22 fps.
Alrighty, recorded and saved a demo of the same exact thing (the sniper waving), and I got a nice and solid 12fps.
That's so much smoother. -.-