Video-capturing software of choice?

-Ice

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There are a lot of E:D videos on YT, I was wondering what is the video-capturing software of choice? I have FRAPS but for a 5min. video going up to 32GB in size, well, that's just insane.

Recommendations welcome, free programs preferred (I already bought FRAPS :mad: ) but if there is a solid recommendation on a video, I may get it.

Thanks!
 

The Law

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Nvidia Shadowplay, since it has least performance impact, and also nice quality. But for some reason, I can't get it to work with Elite.
 

Steve50

Steve50
I use Fraps and then use virtualdub (free software) to convert the format and it usually drops 100-120mb clips down to 7-8mb :)
 

Shogunas

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-Ice said:
There are a lot of E:D videos on YT, I was wondering what is the video-capturing software of choice? I have FRAPS but for a 5min. video going up to 32GB in size, well, that's just insane.

Recommendations welcome, free programs preferred (I already bought FRAPS :mad: ) but if there is a solid recommendation on a video, I may get it.

Thanks!
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Make sure you are running in Full Screen and not borderless. Also try turning on Vertical Sync if this doesn't work. Shadowplay is by far the best video capture platform for gamers. Hands down. (My opinion only). If you cant get it to run it is more than likely a setting in game under graphics. Have had similar problems with many games and I was always able to correct it by changing a GFX setting.
 

Junglepants

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I've been using Open Broadcaster Software, but XSplit seems to give decent results as well. Both can take advantage of the same video card features that shadowplay does, and so there is minimal performance impact.

A lot of it though is simply playing with the settings until you've got something you can compromise with. It's always going to be a compromise between quality, file size and performance hit. Each computer setup is different and each game is different, they're all going to have to take different settings. It took me a number of hours over several days to find a good set of settings for this computer for one game, but now that I know this computer's limitations I can usually get a specific game setup within 5-10 minutes.

I've settled on 1080p with high or very high quality settings and variable bit rate with the max rate somewhere around 10kb/s and tend to get good results. This will give me about a 1 gigabyte file per 15 minutes of recording.
 

TheNut

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nVidia ShadowPlay is the best out there if you have the hardware to support it. If not, the best free alternative IMO is Open Broadcast. It uses your CPU instead of GPU to encode videos, but anyone on a decent Intel i5 or i7 shouldn't notice any performance impact in their gaming. It will consume an entire core if you want it to encode with good quality. Open Broadcast is also a bit technical and it requires proper configuration to get the most out of your videos. It works great for ED as I've recorded some top-notch 1080p videos with crisp quality.
 

Icarus1

Icarus1
Shadowplay. It works, I just set the recording to manual (alt+F9) and enable all the nvidia services in Windows.
 

Sp4rkR4t

Sp4rkR4t
OBS has always outperformed any other solution for me no matter what hardware setup I'm currently running, it's damn configurable as well.
 

BacchusZA

BacchusZA
I find Bandicam works really well. It has a small footprint & doesn't affect performance much at all, and also produces good quality videos with a small file size, if you configure it properly. You may need to tweak the audio settings a bit though, as I find the sound levels are a bit low in the recordings.
 

Crumplecorn

Crumplecorn
If you want free and realtime encoding, OBS.

If you want lossless compression and/or lower performance hit, dxtory, but it costs.
 

talshiarr

talshiarr
OBS. I used Fraps for a long time but waiting around and tending VirtualDub's post-processing was growing very tiresome.
 
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