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zaneyard
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#1
02-07-2010, 04:15 AM

what do you all use for making movies and such.
i want to start doing some recording in eve and tf2 and I'm just wondering what you guys recommend
i know of fraps but IIRC there is a limit on length in the free version

any alternatives?


(04-09-2013, 11:24 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote:well i'm not really understanding how it's faster internet. and like google just magically rolls outs this stuff and it's 100 times faster than my internet? why? that doesn't set off any alarms to anyone?

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02-07-2010, 04:17 AM

there's WeGame. It's pretty nice, has an SD and HD option. Has support for most games out there too.


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02-07-2010, 09:21 AM

(02-07-2010, 04:15 AM)zaneyard link Wrote: what do you all use for making movies and such.
i want to start doing some recording in eve and tf2 and I'm just wondering what you guys recommend
i know of fraps but IIRC there is a limit on length in the free version

any alternatives?
There's a limit on the free version, though you could buy the full version... or not buy it. But other than that I'm not really sure, I know livestream lets you make recordings, though to be honest I think that it probably takes too much system memory to be worth it.
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02-07-2010, 07:36 PM

(02-07-2010, 09:21 AM)Coppanuva link Wrote: [quote author=zaneyard link=topic=4179.msg135884#msg135884 date=1265534114]
what do you all use for making movies and such.
i want to start doing some recording in eve and tf2 and I'm just wondering what you guys recommend
i know of fraps but IIRC there is a limit on length in the free version

any alternatives?
There's a limit on the free version, though you could buy the full version... or not buy it. But other than that I'm not really sure, I know livestream lets you make recordings, though to be honest I think that it probably takes too much system memory to be worth it.
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cause it's going to take out my 8 gigs of ddr3


edit: thanks guys, i'll be checking out both of those apps


(04-09-2013, 11:24 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote:well i'm not really understanding how it's faster internet. and like google just magically rolls outs this stuff and it's 100 times faster than my internet? why? that doesn't set off any alarms to anyone?

(11-07-2012, 11:15 PM)at0m link Wrote:I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE OVERINDULGED ON RUM AND COKES AT OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE

THE BARTENDER WAS BRAGGING ABOUT BEING A LEFTY. I SAID I WAS A RIGHTY, BUT THAT I COULD UNDO A BRA WITH JUST MY LEFT HAND. ASKED HER IF THAT COUNTED AS BEING AMBIDEXTROUS. SHE SAID 'NOT REALLY'. tHEN HANDED ME ANOTHER DRINK.

I COUN THAT AS A WIN

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02-07-2010, 07:53 PM

(02-07-2010, 04:17 AM)backfire link Wrote: there's WeGame. It's pretty nice, has an SD and HD option. Has support for most games out there too.

wegame is great, if you dont want to use wegame you can go through some hoops to get the raw file of your videos and use like wmm to put em on youtube or whatever
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02-07-2010, 10:38 PM

Full version of Fraps came free with my video card.  I've never really had reason to use it though.



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02-07-2010, 11:03 PM

(02-07-2010, 07:53 PM)diggs link Wrote: [quote author=backfire link=topic=4179.msg135885#msg135885 date=1265534239]
there's WeGame. It's pretty nice, has an SD and HD option. Has support for most games out there too.

wegame is great, if you dont want to use wegame you can go through some hoops to get the raw file of your videos and use like wmm to put em on youtube or whatever
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we game sounds good i'll sign up righ tnow


what do you guys use for recording hotkeys?


(04-09-2013, 11:24 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote:well i'm not really understanding how it's faster internet. and like google just magically rolls outs this stuff and it's 100 times faster than my internet? why? that doesn't set off any alarms to anyone?

(11-07-2012, 11:15 PM)at0m link Wrote:I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE OVERINDULGED ON RUM AND COKES AT OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE

THE BARTENDER WAS BRAGGING ABOUT BEING A LEFTY. I SAID I WAS A RIGHTY, BUT THAT I COULD UNDO A BRA WITH JUST MY LEFT HAND. ASKED HER IF THAT COUNTED AS BEING AMBIDEXTROUS. SHE SAID 'NOT REALLY'. tHEN HANDED ME ANOTHER DRINK.

I COUN THAT AS A WIN

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02-07-2010, 11:09 PM

(02-07-2010, 11:03 PM)zaneyard link Wrote: [quote author=diggs link=topic=4179.msg135991#msg135991 date=1265590431]
[quote author=backfire link=topic=4179.msg135885#msg135885 date=1265534239]
there's WeGame. It's pretty nice, has an SD and HD option. Has support for most games out there too.

wegame is great, if you dont want to use wegame you can go through some hoops to get the raw file of your videos and use like wmm to put em on youtube or whatever
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we game sounds good i'll sign up righ tnow


what do you guys use for recording hotkeys?
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02-07-2010, 11:24 PM

k wegame kills my fps in both hd and regular mode somehow


(04-09-2013, 11:24 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote:well i'm not really understanding how it's faster internet. and like google just magically rolls outs this stuff and it's 100 times faster than my internet? why? that doesn't set off any alarms to anyone?

(11-07-2012, 11:15 PM)at0m link Wrote:I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE OVERINDULGED ON RUM AND COKES AT OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE

THE BARTENDER WAS BRAGGING ABOUT BEING A LEFTY. I SAID I WAS A RIGHTY, BUT THAT I COULD UNDO A BRA WITH JUST MY LEFT HAND. ASKED HER IF THAT COUNTED AS BEING AMBIDEXTROUS. SHE SAID 'NOT REALLY'. tHEN HANDED ME ANOTHER DRINK.

I COUN THAT AS A WIN

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02-07-2010, 11:30 PM

just take a demo and record that
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02-07-2010, 11:42 PM

(02-07-2010, 11:30 PM)diggs link Wrote: just take a demo and record that
need it for more than just tf2 Sad

and fraps lags the fuck up too, i wonder if i should try the apps in other games to see what happens


(04-09-2013, 11:24 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote:well i'm not really understanding how it's faster internet. and like google just magically rolls outs this stuff and it's 100 times faster than my internet? why? that doesn't set off any alarms to anyone?

(11-07-2012, 11:15 PM)at0m link Wrote:I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE OVERINDULGED ON RUM AND COKES AT OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE

THE BARTENDER WAS BRAGGING ABOUT BEING A LEFTY. I SAID I WAS A RIGHTY, BUT THAT I COULD UNDO A BRA WITH JUST MY LEFT HAND. ASKED HER IF THAT COUNTED AS BEING AMBIDEXTROUS. SHE SAID 'NOT REALLY'. tHEN HANDED ME ANOTHER DRINK.

I COUN THAT AS A WIN

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#12
02-08-2010, 12:42 AM

using any program like that is going to lag you to crap, your best bet is to hope for recording utilizing the game engine so there is minimal performance loss (a la halo, source games, most modern shooters, etc etc), and then play it all back with wegame running at a later date.


fraps sucks because afaik it literally tries to record massive uncompressed avi's. ie it's recording dozens of jiggabytes of photage per minute

running your game in smaller-than-full-resolution should also help you out a lot. Say you want to record footage at 720p. There's really no reason whatsoever to run at a res higher than 1280x720. I'd imagine the downsampling itself will also eat away at performance, so you should probably refrain from running at a res higher than what you're recording. And since I doubt this is any high budget stuff, you can probably get away with 480p (what, that's like 480x270 or something dumb like that?)


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#13
02-08-2010, 01:08 AM

yeah i suppose i could lower my res but oh god the eve interface is so cluttered already
i guess i'm out of luck atm


(04-09-2013, 11:24 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote:well i'm not really understanding how it's faster internet. and like google just magically rolls outs this stuff and it's 100 times faster than my internet? why? that doesn't set off any alarms to anyone?

(11-07-2012, 11:15 PM)at0m link Wrote:I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE OVERINDULGED ON RUM AND COKES AT OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE

THE BARTENDER WAS BRAGGING ABOUT BEING A LEFTY. I SAID I WAS A RIGHTY, BUT THAT I COULD UNDO A BRA WITH JUST MY LEFT HAND. ASKED HER IF THAT COUNTED AS BEING AMBIDEXTROUS. SHE SAID 'NOT REALLY'. tHEN HANDED ME ANOTHER DRINK.

I COUN THAT AS A WIN

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02-08-2010, 07:22 PM

Performance shouldn't be too bad if you keep the video framerate to record at 24-30 FPS and not higher than 1280x720 (your game resolution and video recording res).  It's pointless to record higher than that since 99% of all video content will play back at that speed/res at the most anyways.  If you don't need HD then lower the res even further.

Note that you'll still want a decent bit of hard drive space, and processor speed to record stuff. Having a quad core helps, and raw movie footage goes at about 500mb-1GB per minute depending on what settings you record with.


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02-08-2010, 09:17 PM

yeah i could drop down my resolution in game, but i sucks playing eve with less screen space, and that's mostly what i want to record for

i have a quad core @3.4 ghz and about a terabyte of free space


(04-09-2013, 11:24 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote:well i'm not really understanding how it's faster internet. and like google just magically rolls outs this stuff and it's 100 times faster than my internet? why? that doesn't set off any alarms to anyone?

(11-07-2012, 11:15 PM)at0m link Wrote:I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE OVERINDULGED ON RUM AND COKES AT OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE

THE BARTENDER WAS BRAGGING ABOUT BEING A LEFTY. I SAID I WAS A RIGHTY, BUT THAT I COULD UNDO A BRA WITH JUST MY LEFT HAND. ASKED HER IF THAT COUNTED AS BEING AMBIDEXTROUS. SHE SAID 'NOT REALLY'. tHEN HANDED ME ANOTHER DRINK.

I COUN THAT AS A WIN

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02-09-2010, 08:08 PM

fraps will fill up a TB in like a day its retarded use something better (wegame)




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02-09-2010, 08:36 PM

tried both wegame and fraps and they both lagged my games
imma try some more tests with detail settings adjusted


(04-09-2013, 11:24 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote:well i'm not really understanding how it's faster internet. and like google just magically rolls outs this stuff and it's 100 times faster than my internet? why? that doesn't set off any alarms to anyone?

(11-07-2012, 11:15 PM)at0m link Wrote:I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE OVERINDULGED ON RUM AND COKES AT OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE

THE BARTENDER WAS BRAGGING ABOUT BEING A LEFTY. I SAID I WAS A RIGHTY, BUT THAT I COULD UNDO A BRA WITH JUST MY LEFT HAND. ASKED HER IF THAT COUNTED AS BEING AMBIDEXTROUS. SHE SAID 'NOT REALLY'. tHEN HANDED ME ANOTHER DRINK.

I COUN THAT AS A WIN

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02-09-2010, 08:39 PM

wtf yo? What version of fraps are you using... I can capture mt TF2 @ 50fps 1920x1080 w/o any problem...


Are you recording to the same drive on which your game files reside, by any chance?



(02-09-2010, 08:08 PM)Tim link Wrote: fraps will fill up a TB in like a day its retarded use something better (wegame)


That's because you're supposed to be doing something with the video files afterwards... like transcode and/or compress them.. =p


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03-13-2010, 03:22 AM

bumping this cause i figure it's better than starting a new topic

got a new hard drive and recording works pretty well

so i have this file recorded from fraps and when i upload it to youtube it gets really dark and it gets pretty shitty quality wise (just watched a 720p video of more sharpness.)
file is an .avi, i'm not sure what codec fraps uses.
i have a feeling i need to be encoding this or something before i let youtube deal with it

can anyone help me out here?


putting this here
Encoding and Creating Youtube HD video clips using Fraps clips


(04-09-2013, 11:24 PM)Dr. Zaius link Wrote:well i'm not really understanding how it's faster internet. and like google just magically rolls outs this stuff and it's 100 times faster than my internet? why? that doesn't set off any alarms to anyone?

(11-07-2012, 11:15 PM)at0m link Wrote:I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE OVERINDULGED ON RUM AND COKES AT OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE

THE BARTENDER WAS BRAGGING ABOUT BEING A LEFTY. I SAID I WAS A RIGHTY, BUT THAT I COULD UNDO A BRA WITH JUST MY LEFT HAND. ASKED HER IF THAT COUNTED AS BEING AMBIDEXTROUS. SHE SAID 'NOT REALLY'. tHEN HANDED ME ANOTHER DRINK.

I COUN THAT AS A WIN

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03-13-2010, 11:23 PM

what software are you using to do your vids zane ? just virtualdub ?

if you want some measure of quality you're going to have to up your software to something like Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere.
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