I guess I could just google it but I wanted to know what your experience are with in-game recording software.
I'm thinking about uploading a preview of my campaign on youtube and I need a good efficient software that can record me playing the game. I want to use ultra graphic settings while still having good performance in Starcraft 2. As lagless as possible and ability to record long videos.
Fraps if you want the best quality for your vids. However prepare for major fps drops if you'r Rig is not top notch.
Dxtory leaves your ingame fps at 60 and tries to record at whatever fps you want your video to be recorded with. This results in good gaming experience but might result in a low quality film, with lots of fps drops.
I did some more tests with dxtory but I found out you actually need a pretty hardcore system. I have a system of about 3-4 years. It had top notch specs. Since DXtory tries to leave your ingame fps at 60 or what ever you want it to be, your recordings will have loads of fps drops making it somewhat unpleasant to view. So if you have an ultra pc go for dx. if it is less good go for fraps imo.
The lossless coddec from cam studio puts the quality insanely high if you can get it to work, i dont understand why theres an IMAX setting when the game cant do IMAXs but its there.
I don't get it to work im afraid :(. I need a new pc with a better GPU and at least raid harddisks. Will do that in 2014, and than il give dxtory an other shot.
Concerning quality, I think Fraps does a very, very nice job. The quality is actually a lot better than what I use for rendering (because of file size etc). If any one is curious of Fraps quality recording check the link below. I use Adobe Premiere Pro for editting and rendering. I use the .wmv codec. Single encoder pass, no maximum render quality (to save time), and a bitrate of about 7000. Note that I do not play SCII on max settings.
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Curse PremiumI guess I could just google it but I wanted to know what your experience are with in-game recording software.
I'm thinking about uploading a preview of my campaign on youtube and I need a good efficient software that can record me playing the game. I want to use ultra graphic settings while still having good performance in Starcraft 2. As lagless as possible and ability to record long videos.
What software do you use?
Fraps.
Fraps isnt free
Cam studio is free abit wonky to use
Microsoft expressions 3 i herd was very good and free?
There are *ahem*, ways to get Fraps but I think you probably already know.
Apart from that xsplit is always good. You can also stream as a bonus and the quality is actually pretty decent.
http://obsproject.com/ Open Broadcaster Software in local recording mode.
And NVIDIA's ShadowPlay (in GeForce Experience) for GTX 6xx - 7xx GPU's. ;)
Fraps if you want the best quality for your vids. However prepare for major fps drops if you'r Rig is not top notch. Dxtory leaves your ingame fps at 60 and tries to record at whatever fps you want your video to be recorded with. This results in good gaming experience but might result in a low quality film, with lots of fps drops.
What kind of system do you have?
http://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster
Razer Game Booster is free and has a video recording utility built into it thats very comparable to Fraps.
Formally Kinkycactus
I did some more tests with dxtory but I found out you actually need a pretty hardcore system. I have a system of about 3-4 years. It had top notch specs. Since DXtory tries to leave your ingame fps at 60 or what ever you want it to be, your recordings will have loads of fps drops making it somewhat unpleasant to view. So if you have an ultra pc go for dx. if it is less good go for fraps imo.
@Crazio: Go
The lossless coddec from cam studio puts the quality insanely high if you can get it to work, i dont understand why theres an IMAX setting when the game cant do IMAXs but its there.
@SoulTaker916: Go
I don't get it to work im afraid :(. I need a new pc with a better GPU and at least raid harddisks. Will do that in 2014, and than il give dxtory an other shot.
Concerning quality, I think Fraps does a very, very nice job. The quality is actually a lot better than what I use for rendering (because of file size etc). If any one is curious of Fraps quality recording check the link below. I use Adobe Premiere Pro for editting and rendering. I use the .wmv codec. Single encoder pass, no maximum render quality (to save time), and a bitrate of about 7000. Note that I do not play SCII on max settings.
The video: