Anything better than windows movie maker for games?

[kkbigal]

Never used Sony Vegas but I'd be surprised if you can't adjust the volume of the audio some how.

I needed to boost the audio on the voice recording I did for a Borderlands 2 playthrough. I just loaded the recorded Mumble audio into Audacity (Link) and used the Enhancement menu to boost the volume up and then added it to my video

I usually boost the narration to be slightly louder than the game audio if I'm doing voice over.

 

[Witcher1979]

Never used Sony Vegas but I'd be surprised if you can't adjust the volume of the audio some how.

I needed to boost the audio on the voice recording I did for a Borderlands 2 playthrough. I just loaded the recorded Mumble audio into Audacity (Link) and used the Enhancement menu to boost the volume up and then added it to my video

Before I came back to windows I used Audacity on Linux to add my voice on a movie for my sister to watch. It was a horror film and she got pretty scared when the movie started calling her name But great program and easy to use.

 

[~>Dg<~]

neil you encoded that video wrong doesn't fill screen

as for your volume yeah there's numerous programs that could rip audio off then higher volume in project.

tbh the 25-30 quid sony vegas is all and more that anyone could need for youtube videos . you can get a pluggin for vegas which is free which will encode your videos at a very good standard.

 

[Witcher1979]

My settings are the same as yours

Other things to check:

1) Click on the configure codec button next to where you have Lagarith selected and then make sure you have "multithreading" selected for better performance. You could also probably change the colourspace to YV12.

2) Click on the "Advanced" Tab (CPU icon) at the top. Personally, I enable "Enabled Synchronous Surface Lock" and "Wait for Available Buffer" to reduce the amount of stutter in the video (more consistent frame rate capture).

You could experiment with the "Force CPU Processing" option to see if this improves your capture performance or not. If it's checked, the CPU is responsible for handling the capture process rather than the GPU. Shift the load on to whatever offers you the best performance

As for audio, I just stick it on MP3 @ 320kbps; more than adequate for YouTube. If you do transcode your vids, just set audio to be a straight copy; it means you won't waste CPU cycles re-encoding the audio (unless you want to down-sample to get the file size even lower).

If you want to lock your frame rate to a specific value, just set the value of the "Limit Video FPS" option

Another quick tip - Dxtory will create a profile for each game you run with it's own independent settings. Make sure to double check everything is set as you want it prior to recording, especially where capturing sound is concerned. I told it to capture my soundcard and headset earphone output for voice comms, but I forgot to select my headset mic input...so I ended up with 2 hours of footage with my friend talking to himself

Thanks for all your awesome help and info I managed to do this in 720p, make sure you click it in 720p fullscreen mode, this is plenty for me and I think it looks alright. Well good enough for my needs. This is the sandstorm map.