Creating Videos of gameplay

[Little_Big_Man]

I have a program that records a video of gameplay but it keeps skipping frames and dropping pixels. It says to turn off hardware accelleration in your system settings, but when I do that NBA Live won't even start. I've also tried using different codecs and fps settings but nothing works. any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[Mazzocchi]

use FRAPS (http://fraps.com)

[cocobee]

use FRAPS (http://fraps.com)

Have you used it with live? I'd like to see what video you've made with Live 2004. thanks--i'm actually thinking about getting it.

[Mazzocchi]

no i dont have live, but FRAPS is the best, I have made l;ots of videos of Grand Theft Auto Vice City and they run really smooth, even with a lot of action the only problem (its included in Version 2.o but u gotta pay) is you cant record audio 2 with it

[cocobee]

no i dont have live, but FRAPS is the best, I have made l;ots of videos of Grand Theft Auto Vice City and they run really smooth, even with a lot of action the only problem (its included in Version 2.o but u gotta pay) is you cant record audio 2 with it

but you hear the audio associated with the video--so you should hear Marv Albert but you can't put your own music on top of the video--is that what your saying?

It's $30.00 right?

[Mazzocchi]

basically-
Free FRAPS- Can Not Record Audio From Game
Paid FRAPS- Can Record Ausio, but depends on what Video Editing Program You Have If You Can Have 2 Audios Over Each Other, I Know With Windows Movie Maker You Cant Do That

[flylice31]

hey what other kinds of programs can you use to record videos during gameplay? i tried fraps and it runs very clumpy when recording live. it actually works fine for other games like max payne and some other high end games but not live, any other programs that are good?

[Mazzocchi]

Na' sorry bro, but the whole idea of it being clumpy in-game is that I assumed you were re-cording re-plays and not doing it on the fly but besides that sorry

[Quagmire]

I just came across 2 programs... GRABIT and Camtasia Studio 2 ... they both are great but I have the same problem that you do with Fraps... like 1 Fps and Hardware acceleration stops the directX from being able to run the game..... see what you can do with these... maybe between the 2 of us we'll figure something out[/img]

[Guest]

If u wanna see some video made with fraps, check this. You need a good P4 based system to get good results with Fraps, if i set all the detail settings to low in live, i can record complete game with audio NP. Only real downside to fraps apart from needing a good machine is the file size. I recorded a 12 min game and the video file was 2GB, which i later encoded to 70mb. Camtasia is also good, but overall Fraps is better.

fraps 2.0, both clips are 15fps encoded to 25fps MPEG using TMPG all at basic settings, all in game setting are low to allow increased frame rate when playing and recording.

Half Resolution
Full Resolution

If u have watched the 1st clip(check this) you can see the results you can get if you have the right settings and what not!

[Quagmire]

I have an Athlon XP 2200+ ... decent processor 1.8ghz ... but the thing is.... when I had my Nvidia Geforce4 TI4200 in .... IT WORKED FINE.... I have some clips made at full reso. not with my Radeon 9600XT ... it DOesn't work at all ... I know it's not cuz the card can't handle it.... I just need to figure that part out...

[Fadeyi]

Frap is really good. I use it for a bunch of games.
Best thing is to record and make changes to it with Adobe premeire...
Premeire is probably the best video editing tool out there.