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#1 Twinmill33

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Posted January 12 2013 - 11:44 AM

I want to start recording some games and don't know which one to use. Can you guys help?

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Posted January 12 2013 - 11:49 AM

MSI Afterburner is a good start. It's free and pretty good at not slowing your machine to a halt whilst recording. The recording is a feature so you'll need to look at the Video Capture settings once you've got it installed.

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Posted January 12 2013 - 11:54 AM

Never used Afterburner, but Fraps, Bandicam and DX Tory have all worked reliably for me.

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Posted January 12 2013 - 12:18 PM

Thanks for info guys.

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Posted January 12 2013 - 12:21 PM

View PostTwinmill33, on January 12 2013 - 12:18 PM, said:

Thanks for info guys.

No worries :)

There's loads of us who record so if you have any problems then just ask.

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Posted January 12 2013 - 12:38 PM

Fraps seems to have issues with recording Hawken, in my experience. DXtory and Afterburner are good alternatives.
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Posted January 12 2013 - 12:40 PM

I use Fraps and suffer absolutely no drop in performance. So far the only people I have heard complain about Fraps are NVidia users. I have an AMD.

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Posted January 12 2013 - 01:34 PM

I use FRAPs and have no problems... I record in 1080p and Upload in 1080p. I have no lag. However, this could be due to my GTX 660 Ti.
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Posted January 12 2013 - 02:06 PM

7850 2GB card, here. Latest version of fraps. Every time I hit record in Hawken, it either crashes or freezes the game for about 20 seconds. This did not happen in any previous release.
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Posted January 12 2013 - 02:33 PM

I was going to go with Fraps but you guys are makin me rethink.

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Posted January 12 2013 - 03:21 PM

Fraps is for when you want the absolute highest video quality possible.

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Posted January 12 2013 - 03:40 PM

View PostUmbre, on January 12 2013 - 03:21 PM, said:

Fraps is for when you want the absolute highest video quality possible.

Yup. File sizes are huge with no compromise on quality. You'll have to compress the video after with something like VirtualDub.

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Posted January 12 2013 - 04:02 PM

Use FRAPS it is good. I also heard of other things but FRAPS is real good.
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Posted January 12 2013 - 04:27 PM

To the most helpful community ever .     THANKS

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Posted January 12 2013 - 04:46 PM

in my channel linked by my sig is information on what I use to record + examples.

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I record my videos using full license Dxtory with Lagarith Lossless codec @ 720p to an SSD drive.

If you end up trying out dxtory (theres a free version and a bought version, free version works fine for testing but will superimpose a watermark over much of the top portion of the capture output) feel free to PM me for setup notes, otherwise just head on youtube and theres plenty of extensive guides out there to get you started.

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Posted January 12 2013 - 04:48 PM

I use Fraps also. But I have afterburner as an overlay for GPU monitoring. There's also playclaw and Dxtory, but I haven't used those.

BTW, if you wanna do some video compression, use virtual dub, x264vfw (H.264 codec), and Lame MP3, it saves a LOT of space ...
Virtual Dub: http://www.virtualdub.org/
x264vfw: http://sourceforge.n...ojects/x264vfw/
Lame MP3: http://lame.sourceforge.net/

and the compression settings in this vid (in the description), I can send you the VirtualDub config file if you need it:

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BF3 Fraps video conversion test using Virtual Dub. Was having problems with audio sync and loss of quality using previous settings. Please tell me how it turns out and any recommendations for the processing settings (below). After processing, the audio on my computer stopped working (fixed with restart).

I'm using a test clip with lots of shots for audio sync testing. This is on Seine Crossing TDM using the JNG-90 + Bipod + Laser Sight + no sights (doesn't obstruct to reticule like most sights except for the Kobra). Being prone and having laser sight on reduces the non-ADS sight spread on the JNG ... or almost any other sniper rifle to nearly nothing, so its good for medium-ish ranges

Virtual Dub Settings used:
Video: Full Processing Mode, x264vfw - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec with zero latency selected and 10000 bitrate using Single Pass - bitrate-based ABR
Audio: Full Processing Mode, Lame MP3 with 48000 Hz, 192 kbps CBR, Stereo
Options: Sync to audio and Drop frames when behind not selected

Fraps Settings at the time:
1920x1080 @ 60 fps recording

Compressed from 3.95GB file to 89.6MB (~44 : 1 compression ratio)

I'm using FRAPS and MSI Afterburner for the overlays (if anyone is wondering).

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Posted January 12 2013 - 05:13 PM

Fu**ing fantastic. If anyone can help, i would like some help wih some viedo compression

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Posted January 12 2013 - 05:34 PM

View PostTwinmill33, on January 12 2013 - 05:13 PM, said:

Fu**ing fantastic. If anyone can help, i would like some help wih some viedo compression

what the heck, I'll put my virtual dub compression profile here. make sure you have the all things I posted installed first ...

You need to go file -> load processing settings -> select the file. to load the settings when you run virtual dub though
Attached File  FRAPS Compression.zip   530bytes   37 downloads
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Posted January 12 2013 - 06:07 PM

View PostArnieF4440, on January 12 2013 - 05:34 PM, said:

View PostTwinmill33, on January 12 2013 - 05:13 PM, said:

Fu**ing fantastic. If anyone can help, i would like some help wih some viedo compression

what the heck, I'll put my virtual dub compression profile here. make sure you have the all things I posted installed first ...

You need to go file -> load processing settings -> select the file. to load the settings when you run virtual dub though
Attached File  FRAPS Compression.zip   530bytes   37 downloads
Man sorry, i have been at the bar for the past 4hrs tryin to keep up, when i get home i will check it out .  Thank you for yor input and your time.

#20 Umbre

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Posted January 12 2013 - 10:57 PM

When it comes to video compression, I just render my videos in Power Director 11. It produces amazing quality and renders very quickly. A full 15-20 minute video takes me about 10 minutes to render at 1080p, and the file size is pretty manageable compared to most video editors. I don't usually go past 1 GB.




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