Best screen recording software?

Bane · 4 Oct 2011 at 18:21

Does FRAPS allow for a different codec to be used? That would save some file space and performance at lose of some quality.

platypus · 4 Oct 2011 at 18:24

Nope, it records uncompressed.

Covert0ne · 4 Oct 2011 at 19:56

Here is some 1080P EVE Online Footage recorded using DXTORY.

It gives no lag, has loads of options and the quality comes out perfect. It really is worth a try with the right settings.

Video

SlothTech · 4 Oct 2011 at 20:03

Covert0ne said:
Here is some 1080P EVE Online Footage recorded using DXTORY.

It gives no lag, has loads of options and the quality comes out perfect. It really is worth a try with the right settings.

Video

looks really nice actually.
Any torrents out?

JTrickle · 4 Oct 2011 at 20:14

You mean torrents for his youtube video linked above?

Gerard · 4 Oct 2011 at 20:17

SlothTech said:
looks really nice actually.
Any torrents out?

Buy it, tightass. :mad:

barmyllama · 4 Oct 2011 at 20:20

I use MSI Afterburner, the latest beta version which is 2.20 beta 7 records audio as well.

Which the current 2.10 version does not.

The following video was recorded using MSI Afterburner 2.20 beta 7 with the following settings.

I used Windows Live Movie Maker for editing.

SlothTech · 4 Oct 2011 at 20:21

Gerard said:
Buy it, tightass.

nah, runs worse than fraps for me anyway :/

Covert0ne · 4 Oct 2011 at 20:21

I would actually recommend buying this one to support the developers. Its a great, underexposed bit of kit! License is unlimited with constant updates. (Like FRAPS)

I own both and FAR prefer DXTORY.

When set-up right it really shines.

Digital · 4 Oct 2011 at 21:33

I've bought and used, Fraps, DXTory, Bandicam and Playclaw. For me the champion is DXTory. I can choose the exact framerate, I can choose the exact resolution, I can record multiple soundtracks and have them remain separate and at the same time play as if nothing it happening in the background.

weyland yutani · 4 Oct 2011 at 21:46

How do yo uue Afterburner to capture video anyway??? I cant figure it out! I set up F12 as a hot key but it never captures anything when I have it running in the background

barmyllama · 4 Oct 2011 at 22:17

weyland yutani said:
How do yo uue Afterburner to capture video anyway??? I cant figure it out! I set up F12 as a hot key but it never captures anything when I have it running in the background

My settings pictured above.

Covert0ne · 5 Oct 2011 at 00:01

Digital said:
I've bought and used, Fraps, DXTory, Bandicam and Playclaw. For me the champion is DXTory. I can choose the exact framerate, I can choose the exact resolution, I can record multiple soundtracks and have them remain separate and at the same time play as if nothing it happening in the background.

This, This & This.

MeMeMeMe · 5 Oct 2011 at 13:31

Digital said:
I've bought and used, Fraps, DXTory, Bandicam and Playclaw. For me the champion is DXTory. I can choose the exact framerate, I can choose the exact resolution, I can record multiple soundtracks and have them remain separate and at the same time play as if nothing it happening in the background.

Interesting. I've used Playclaw and FRAPS, and prefer Playclaw over Fraps (though it does have a few games it wont work with). I'll have to give DXtory a try.

weyland yutani · 5 Oct 2011 at 15:02

barmyllama said:
My settings pictured above.

AB just wont capture video for me

Im using v2.1.0 with ATI Catalyst 11.5

monkeyboy7 · 5 Oct 2011 at 15:40

Gimpymoo said:
Off topic, but what hardware solutions are there?

You can buy an external VGA recorder that will make a copy of your video output. The process reduces lag significantly because the hardware will be charge of any compression, not your own computer's CPU. These are relatively expensive, though, and I would recommend just upgrading your computer. With that said, they're great for livestreams.

Also, keep in mind that these external devices don't necessarily have a lot of storage space, so you'll also have to come up with a solution to "inventory management." Not sure if you can hook them up to an external hard drive. Remember, these things will take up gigs of space for just a few minutes.

Side note: I've heard of quite a few Let's Players switching over to Dxtory. I'm gonna have to give that a try.

Martini1991 · 5 Oct 2011 at 15:42

Dxtory seems pretty good.
I run the game off my SSD and run Dxtory on my 250GB.
Only problem was a 3 minute video = 17GB......

I'm doing it wrong obviously.

monkeyboy7 · 5 Oct 2011 at 15:47

Martini1991 said:
I'm doing it wrong obviously.

What codec are you using for compression? That seems abnormally high, even for an uncompressed codec like uncompressed AVI. I'm going to download it DXTory right now and play around with the settings.

EDIT: Wow, it costs 50 bucks? Pretty pricey. :/

MeMeMeMe · 6 Oct 2011 at 03:49

Is there any documentation for DXtory? It has a lot of settings and I dont know what some of them are for.

Is it possible to play in Eyefinity and record not in Eyefinity: have it capture only the central 1920x1080, and scale it to 1280x720? If so, how?

Edit: I've found it, and yes it is possible. Neat.
The performance doesn't seem as good as with Playclaw - in portal 2, there's a significant frame rate drop that i don't see in playclaw, but my system can cope. It makes me worry about a more demanding game though - should be fun to test anyway.

bhavv · 6 Oct 2011 at 06:04

MSI afterburner works great for me.

I was recording my last few vids at 30 FPS and 75% quality, but it made gameplay a little too choppy and blurred the video quality too much (didnt really need the recordings reduced in quality as movie maker does that without sacrificing as much quality as Afterburners compression does).

So I increased the video quality to 100%, and the FPS to 35, and it records 100% smoothly in full quality without any choppy-ness ingame