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[SiegfriedFM]

Can anyone tell me a good program that can be run in the background while I'm playing and immediately capture and encode video to a suitable size and format? Or would such a program require too much power to be run on the same machine?

 

[teiresias]

you could use fraps

but when I record a video it does kill the framerate on the monitor (looks fine when you watch the 30fps encoded movie though).

 

[SiegfriedFM]

We'll see... I need to be able to play it too .

Trying to capture footage of World of Warcraft (and no, I won't post them since I don't have the net space, besides I think it's not allowed yet).

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Wow indeed! This seems to work really great. Hopefully the server will be back up soon so I can give it a shot, but even capturing a menu in the game worked fine.

Good thing I have 30+ GB to spare...

 

[Felidae_Khrall]

Fraps tends to drop a lot of frames over a long period of recording.

The *IDEAL* way to do this, is output the video from your computer using a TV out, into a DV camera, and then capturing the footage off the tape VIA Firewire. This way you can get top quality uncompressed video.

This also means you need a TV out and DV camera... but that's quality. Other than that, you'll have to suffer through FRAPS.

 

[SiegfriedFM]

DV camera is the problem. Besides, wouldn't I just get S-video quality off it?

I'm planning to do a WoW trailer, so I don't really need long clips anyway. I guess I need to buy Fraps to get rid of that watermark though...

 

[Sander]

Fraps is great Two short Counter-Strike Source clips I just made:

 

[teiresias]

Sander, what do you use to crop and turn the video files into gifs?

 

[Sander]

VirtualDub for editing (resize, crop, framerate etc), Ulead Gif Animator for converting to gif.