Can anyone recommend an alternative gaming video recording app?

Silaz Carbryck

Silaz Carbryck
I seem to have a bit of a problem with my Geforce drivers account right now. It asks me to log in, so I try to log in, but it won't work. I have a password manager which has the Geforce account email from several years ago and password, but I can't log in with these details. I tried setting up a new account with the same gmail account, but then Geforce say the email is already in use. what?

Are there any other third party alternative game video recording apps that I can use instead of messing about with the Geforce utility that are easy to use and set up that people can recommend?

Thanks - Si
 

Silaz Carbryck

Silaz Carbryck
Ok thanks guys I will try that one. Installing now. I might need to use the streaming feature in future, but my preference is to record and edit video with a variety of different camera angles from a range of different sources.
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
Silaz Carbryck said:
Ok thanks guys I will try that one. Installing now. I might need to use the streaming feature in future, but my preference is to record and edit video with a variety of different camera angles from a range of different sources.
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XBox game bar can also record videos and comes preinstalled in Win 10, probably Win 11 as well...

mainly, I use a combination of Geforce Experience and OBS for recording and Kdenlive for video editing...
 

Silaz Carbryck

Silaz Carbryck
OBS does seem to have quite a lot of options. I'm just going to go with what I know and use the second of the offered H.264 Video codecs, and Vorbis audio compression set to 192kbps.

When my new gaming headphones turn up tomorrow I will start experimenting with this new software then to find the most optimal settings. I think 720p HD is pretty fine really for Youtube TV, and I'm not sure Netflix stream anything higher than that anyway, but if I were cutting a video for professional distribution I'm sure 1080p would still have to be presented to any commissioner. As for Video datarate, I can't remember what settings I ought to be using, so I will have a fiddle around until I get the quality of recording setup to my satisfaction.

I use Adobe Premiere CS5.5 Pro from the Adobe Master Suite package that was available to buy back in 2012. For my £600 investment which was $1000 at the time I got all the graphics applications I could ever need as well as Audition audio editor and recorder at a bargain price. (Audition used to be Cooledit in the '90's and it had the best timestretcher - "Rough in the jungle!" Remember that one?) Only problem is they will only work on older iMac operating systems.

Luckily I picked up a first generation 2008 dual core iMac off of eBay for £100, 24inch including delivery! Can you believe it? So that's my graphics workstation now, and the newer iMac when it has been repaired will be for audio production DAW and recording in the new professional home studio that I'm still building on a very tight budget.

I trained myself when at college on Premiere 5 back in 1998, so I'm a veteran media enthusiast as well as a veteran ED player from Beta.
 
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Silaz Carbryck

Silaz Carbryck
Unfortunately my ancient version of Premiere can't take h.264. I had forgotten about that!

So I had to go back to basics, and run with the original MPEG1 codec.

Not a problem. Hopefully these headphones will turn up soon today so I can find a compatible audio codec as well.
 

Silaz Carbryck

Silaz Carbryck
Problem.

I was just installing a secondary hard drive on the gaming machine to use as my scratch disk for these video recordings, and I thought it would be a good idea to clean out the inside of the machine with a dustpan and brush because it had got very dusty. Bad mistake. Now the machine won't boot. Wont even post. Perhaps it was a static buildup? Who knows. But as I have no money to try and get the machine repaired or replaced with a more up to date rig I can't afford to play the game anymore now. :(

My audio recording studio has to take prioity, and I need to build a decent microphone booth and buy a decent professional recording condenser mic from saving up my disability benefits somehow. And this project is more important than making Elite: Dangerous videos. Sorry about that.
 

Silaz Carbryck

Silaz Carbryck
What I will do though is try and see how much a system rebuild at the local computer shop would cost me.

What I have got is a new motherboard, for this rig that was originally meant to replace the old one that turned out to only have a built in hard wired rechargable battery for the clock that ran out of charge cycles, meaning the PC couldn't keep time anymore resulting in long boot times having to go through the BIOS and reset the clock each time.

So if it turns out that the shop can rebuild my PC rig with the new motherboard for less than £100, and it was component failiure on the old motherboard, and not the GPU that's dead, then I might still be good to go. But I will have to wait until I am paid my ESA on Saturday to get this job done. Fingers crossed.
 
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Silaz Carbryck

Silaz Carbryck
BradHann said:
Last time I had that happpen, it was a faulty memory stick.
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If its memory, then it will be one of the two 8GB sticks that will need replacing. Which I won't be able to afford until next month. Also I will need to hunt around for a matched stick to light up my gaming PC. Such things are hard to come by and are not inexpensive.
 
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Silaz Carbryck

Silaz Carbryck
Luckily it turned out that my gaming PC mainboard did have a clock battery afterall. The shop just did a much better cleaning job and full refurb than I could had of done, got it booting again, and they changed the clock battery which must have just been hidden from site under one of the plates. And the whole thing only cost me £80. I will sell off the new motherboard that I got to replace the old one on eBay when I get around to it to bring in a few more pounds, it's brand new and still in the wrapper so I might be able to get £50 back from that.

Downloading latest 15 update at the moment.

Now all I need is a blank sheet of A2 heavyweight paper from the print shop, and a packet of Blutak from WHSmiths and we're ready to rock and roll folks! ;)

Edit: Don't need the blank paper anymore as I'm not going to have the space in the shot to use the extra corporate slogans in front of the desk now. So just need the Blutak to place the company logo in shot on the wall behind me in the Fleet Carrier Command deck office Youtube set which needs to be kept minimal, and cheap.

Edit: Don't need the Blutak anymore as I just remembered I have plenty of double-sided sticky pads in the lower downstairs store and after hunting around this packed out room I finally located them.
 
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Silaz Carbryck

Silaz Carbryck
Update:

I've finished dressing the set. It has some silver air conditioning conduit, a small GNDN in one corner and an antique 1950's military diagnosis ocilloscope that looks neat but otherwise is useless. The only good thing about the ocilloscope is that if you touch the right terminal you can recieve a safe electric shock. The corporate logo looks ok where it is and there is a telephone and a computer terminal on my cheap £25 wonky fold up aluminium table. Everything is now ready, and the Youtube channel I will be transmitting from can be found here, (no videos yet):

CMDR Silaz Carbryck
 
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Silaz Carbryck

Silaz Carbryck
Power problems. Oh dear.

Unfortunately the USB powered adapter I bought to power my DSLR doesn't seem to work with any of my USB power packs, so I had to order a genuine Samsung USB wall charger at great expense (£14.85) and it won't arrive from Amazon for a few more days.

Because I only have one genuine Canon lithium ion battery I can't really use that in the studio as I need to use the camera running from either a larger power pack or mains to make videos with.

This is going to cost me time more than money though, because I was hoping to start making Elite: Dangerous videos for Youtube sooner.
 
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ethelred

ethelred
Good luck with the videos.

I use OBS and normally stream (I have very little time to edit) but I use Shotcut https://shotcut.org/ to edit stuff together when I need to.

OBS has a bazillion "how to.." videos on YouTube should you need any advice or tips.
 

Silaz Carbryck

Silaz Carbryck
Update:

I know I did say that the set was now dressed, but the double sided sticky pads were not up the the task of fixing the GNDN securely to the wall, and it simply fell off after a day or so. Also, the silver air ducting tube wasn't sufficiently secured either, and it also fell down pretty quickly. Unfortunately I ran out of gaffer tape some months ago becuase I had to use it for packing goods to sell on eBay instead of investing properly in some regular packing tape. So I've ordered two new rolls of gaffer tape, that really for any studio is a basic essential and something that you should never go without. One white one, that can be used to fix the ducting pipe to the wall and shouldn't look too obtrusive, and one silver duct tape roll so that it can be used to wrap around the pipe gaffer tape assembly and blend in seemlessly with the silver colour of the piping.

I've upgraded the GNDN a little more and glued it to an aluminium plate that already had holes for fixing more permanently to the wall with proper drilled holes screws and raw plugs. I'm going to use the cheap and pretty useless Chinesium sound insulation foam panels that I got from eBay last year for the studio, but luckily I only bought a small sample quantity of them to see if it would be any good; they turned out to be rubbish for killing sound reflections, yet ought to look good behind my chair stuck on the back wall cosmetically to make my studio look more like a spaceship command deck office.

When the gaffer tape turns up on Thursday and so does the Samsung USB wall PSU, I will set to work finishing off this set and then I can finally make this first Youtube video and really get things moving!
 
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