Recording Elite gameplay: Shadowplay a good bet?

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I want to do a YouTube series for a Cobra Mk III expedition, once I get my Xbox assets transferred.

Is NVIDIA Shadowplay a good bet? Anyone know how it hits performance?

And can I record voice whilst playing?

Furthermore, can it edit the footage, or will I need another program for that job? If so, are there any free options?

Finally, would it be wise to get a hard drive for the videos? I have no idea how big the files will be.
 

Luniticisi

Luniticisi
Shadow play is great in my view .. I don't notice a performance hit (and my system isn't good)

Yes you can record a microphone, you can't edit as far as I know, but you can get windows movie maker to edit and that's free (It is really slow to import and export movies into/out of it though)

file size depends on the length of the video, and you may have to string together videos as I always seemed to record in 20 mins (or so) chunks .. but it does end up seamless.
 
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Luniticisi said:
Shadow play is great in my view .. I don't notice a performance hit (and my system isn't good)

Yes you can record a microphone, you can't edit as far as I know, but you can get windows movie maker to edit and that's free (It is really slow to import and export movies into/out of it though)
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Oh okay that's good to hear.

Do you know if I can record voice with it?
 

Azra'il

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Shadowplay will function for up to 20 minutes of video for the actual "Shadowplay" but you can manually record as far on as you want or Stream to Youtube if you choose to. You can record your voice, even having it set to not if you don't want to.

That said, each 20 minute file is something around 6GB each so if your going to record several hours your talking a LOT of room.
Once you have it recorded your going to need a separate program to edit the footage, which can vary from free to expensive and you ALWAYS get what you pay for in this department. Buy expensive (Like Adobe) and you'll have some seriously great tools. Go free, you won't have much to work with in comparsion.

REGARDLESS, once you edit it you'll chose the quality and file type, which often can drop the 6GB file down to 1-2GB, less if you editted out content too. But just the encoding to a different filetype will lower the size and make it a faster upload as well as just taking up less room at that point.
 

IronDuke

IronDuke
I use it, works great. It can record voice too; in fact, if you set it to record desktop, it'll record sounds from everything on your PC. Which is handy if you play a custom soundtrack.
*cue Ride of the Valkyries*

--IronDuke
 

zombieapocalypse

zombieapocalypse
I've used Shadowplay extensively over the years, including making a few ED videos, and as far as I can tell, there is almost zero performance hit. Plus the quality is very nice and the filesize isn't too bad.

Downside is, last year Nvidia relaunched GeForce Experience, the interface used for setting up Shadowplay. So now, not only do you have to have an Nvidia sign in to use it, but the UI is just awful and it's buggy as hell. The good news is that you can still use the old version with only a little messing around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykU9wfsNtdg.
 

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Azra'il said:
Shadowplay will function for up to 20 minutes of video for the actual "Shadowplay" but you can manually record as far on as you want or Stream to Youtube if you choose to. You can record your voice, even having it set to not if you don't want to.

That said, each 20 minute file is something around 6GB each so if your going to record several hours your talking a LOT of room.
Once you have it recorded your going to need a separate program to edit the footage, which can vary from free to expensive and you ALWAYS get what you pay for in this department. Buy expensive (Like Adobe) and you'll have some seriously great tools. Go free, you won't have much to work with in comparsion.

REGARDLESS, once you edit it you'll chose the quality and file type, which often can drop the 6GB file down to 1-2GB, less if you editted out content too. But just the encoding to a different filetype will lower the size and make it a faster upload as well as just taking up less room at that point.
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Does sound like getting a hard drive for the files might be worth it then? I can afford that much for sure.
 

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zombieapocalypse said:
I've used Shadowplay extensively over the years, including making a few ED videos, and as far as I can tell, there is almost zero performance hit. Plus the quality is very nice and the filesize isn't too bad.

Downside is, last year Nvidia relaunched GeForce Experience, the interface used for setting up Shadowplay. So now, not only do you have to have an Nvidia sign in to use it, but the UI is just awful and it's buggy as hell. The good news is that you can still use the old version with only a little messing around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykU9wfsNtdg.
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Thank.
 

F4ANTOM

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I use FRAPS, but I already had bought fraps for something else back in the day. I like it bcs it can record and take screencaps too.
 

Shadowdancer

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xondk said:
Personally I have a better experience with OBS, which can capture windows significantly better then shadowplay.
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I've had some quite horrible issues with OBS trying to capture ED, especially on planets the image would just freeze and dissolve into "no bitrate" for half a second.
 

Azra'il

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One additional thing;
You can also record in VR too easier than I found it written anywhere just by launching the game, going to options post-launch and setting it to full screen and preferred resolution. Works fine. Easiest/best solution I found anyway.

You do need to be cautious about recording with Nvidia though, because if you have the privacy setting revoking desktop recording and you close the game (or it crashes) before finishing the recording -- it might not record at all. All your quote-unquote recording just 'lost'

I also found that Nvidia records in variable framerate, which means in some cases like if your working with Adobe's software your going to need to use something like Handbreak to force the video to a set framerate or else the video&audio are going to desync.
 

xondk

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Shadowdancer said:
I've had some quite horrible issues with OBS trying to capture ED, especially on planets the image would just freeze and dissolve into "no bitrate" for half a second.
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Sounds odd, generally that happens when you are recording onto the same drive as you are actively using and it can't keep up?
 

zombieapocalypse

zombieapocalypse
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Are you telling me that I can record at a different FPS to my actual gameplay?
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Yes, by default it records at 60 fps regardless of what fps you're getting in game, but you can also choose to record at 30 fps. In ED I'm normally getting anywhere between 70 and 144 fps, but the recording is always at 60.
 
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d8veh

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I do mine using NVidia Experience, not Shadow Play. I just start and end it by pressing alt + f9. Then I bring them down to 720P and trim them with the free Video Cutter Editor that you find in the Windows app store. If you want to join sections together and/or do anything fancy, you can use Windows Movie Maker. 1080P ones take forever to upload. A one hour one (26 GB) took me about 24 hours with my "high-speed" 50MB broadband.
 

zombieapocalypse

zombieapocalypse
d8veh said:
I do mine using NVidia Experience, not Shadow Play. I just start and end it by pressing alt + f9. Then I bring them down to 720P and trim them with the free Video Cutter Editor that you find in the Windows app store. If you want to join sections together and/or do anything fancy, you can use Windows Movie Maker. 1080P ones take forever to upload. A one hour one (26 GB) took me about 24 hours with my "high-speed" 50MB broadband.
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That is Shadowplay.
 
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