Recording game footage need some tips

~>Dg<~ · 21 Oct 2014 at 20:05

233 said:
had a play with msi afterburner and whilst the video quality is good the files are huge

30 seconds of gameplay came in at over a gig, not ideal if we plan on doing 15-20 minute videos

and that was recording at 720p any suggestions?

lol thats small

mine in fraps are close to 5 gig per minute

if you serious about recording get more hds and dont record the game from the same drive you using whatever to record with.

surfer if you want quality you have to have some trade off . fraps and dxtory are best. set them up right though and you wont have many issues.

233 · 21 Oct 2014 at 23:59

Seems quite a performance hit too

Fps down about 60% in world of tanks. Is this a gpu or CPU issue with the recording or a mixture?

weyland yutani · 22 Oct 2014 at 04:51

Ive been experimenting with capturing game footage, two different games captured using the same Afterburner settings for roughly 2 minutes. One video is double the size and bitrate of the other :confused:

The larger game video file had sweetfx running when captured but would that make any difference?

Handbrake is amazing though, reduced a 1.1GB video down to 200MB and a 650MB video down to 73MB using stock settings, without any perceivable loss in image quality.

arc@css · 17 Feb 2015 at 12:11

snips86x said:

Now I've got a much faster internet connection, I aim to record & upload @ 1080p. The thing is, I can't see an option for that in afterburner?

Edit : triple damn and a side order of damn for the weekend! Ignore.

~>Dg<~ · 17 Feb 2015 at 12:24

tbh instead of messing if you not getting fraps or dxtory just use shadowplay. literally no one uses msiafter burner.

Josh · 17 Feb 2015 at 12:25

My son is the same, wants to be the next Stampyfaceache.

He uses Raptr with his 270X, seems to work pretty well, the qulaity isn't on par with my Shadowplay stuff but he doesn't notice.

Might be worth a shout, also gets your in game points and things, someone on here told me about it and I was impressed.

Sp00n · 17 Feb 2015 at 12:40

I've had the best results (lowest frame rate drop) using OBS and Intel Quick Sync

harvey.l12 · 17 Feb 2015 at 14:29

I record all my videos with Fraps, well PC games anyway and then i edit and render in either Sony Vegas Pro or Adobe Premier. Create big files but good quality recording. Been doing YouTube for 4 Years here.

arc@css · 17 Feb 2015 at 18:35

harvey.l12 said:
I record all my videos with Fraps, well PC games anyway and then i edit and render in either Sony Vegas Pro or Adobe Premier. Create big files but good quality recording. Been doing YouTube for 4 Years here.

I've only just started doing it, but I'm really enjoying learning about the various types of software. Do you have a link to your channel?

Raumarik · 17 Feb 2015 at 19:27

Most of this is recorded using Mirillis action. Some 30FPS, some 60FPS, always really down to whether my PC can run it at 60FPS as Mirillis is always happy to record at that.

Vinno · 19 Feb 2015 at 00:22

I use OBS whenever I record. It took me the best part of an afternoon to finely tune the recording settings to get the best quality/performance trade off.

doofer · 19 Feb 2015 at 01:33

Vinno said:
I use OBS whenever I record. It took me the best part of an afternoon to finely tune the recording settings to get the best quality/performance trade off.

I was the same with OBS but still some of my recordings are really good and some are very pixellated using the exact same settings, increasing the Bitrate which is what everyone seems to recommend actually makes things worse for me so I'm at a loss as to what to change...