Question: What video capture software shall I use?

[Mr. Beanz 0]

Hi,

I have seen a lot of good videos here and on YouTube. What is the preferred method to record ingame videos?

I tried fraps, but it results in very disturbing zoomed view.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Mr Beans

[grylls (DayZ) 4]

Bandicam

[Flying On Fumes 33]

Fraps until Overwolf works on Arma :)

http://blog.overwolf.com/

[Scerun 227]

Bandicam or FRAPs is the way to go

[StealthyBrayden 6]

I use Fraps for Arma 2 (DayZ), bandicam is just as good though. :)

[jterpstra 5]

I use Action! ( http://mirillis.com/en/products/action.html )

eating way less resources than for example Fraps

Can capture on full hd

And i can capture ingame sound and my mic at once

[Keurk 4]

i use bandicam and ,to me, i have much better performance using bandicam than using fraps!

[Mr. Beanz 0]

Thank you all for your suggestions.

I will try out Bandicam and Action, as Fraps seems to bug on my System.

[vladdie 0]

I like Dxtory personally, using Lagarith codec your file sizes aren't astronomical and quality is still high. Fraps always made my game freeze for a second when it moved to a new recorded file and Dxtory doesn't have that problem (as it can record hours of footage without changing file sometimes), it also has great customisation though I must admit I have never tried bandicam or other alternatives (except MSI afterburner which doesn't record mic). Here's a clip I made of stumbling across a survivor in Balota with no weapon and waiting tensely for my brother to show up with a gun just observing the survivor, skip to the last few minutes if you don't want the tension built up. :)

[naizarak 41]

msi afterburner works well. good quality with small file sizes. doesn't record multiple channels of audio though.

[theswiftness 0]

Greetings,

EpicRewind is video capture software that has a key differentiating feature: RAM RollingBuffer mode. This works like an on-demand instant-replay: a game is hooked and the video is continuously buffered in system RAM, when something cool happens the user can save the buffer contents with the press of a hotkey. So rather than saving video from your entire gaming session you can just save the good stuff after it actually happens. In addition, EpicRewind provides some nice performance benefits over traditional capture software: video processing, encoding and writing to disk only happen when you choose to save a video clip. During video buffering, the contents of the framebuffer are just being copied to system memory X times per second based your specified capture FPS.

Key advantages of the RAM RollingBuffer:

    You don't need to pre-plan a gaming video, you can just play the game without thinking of the video at all. If something interesting happens you can always choose to save it after it's happened.

    Ideal for MMOs and Multiplayer games where 99% of the gameplay isn't worth sharing and the interesting stuff can happen at unexpected times.

Added benefits:

    One of the best benefits is that it saves you time by eliminating the need to dig through all your saved gameplay footage to find the good stuff.

    Saves disk space by not writing countless hours of video to disk your just going to throw away later after you dig out the highlights.

    More efficient use of system resources by not processing and encoding video the entire time your gaming.

The base version of EpicRewind is free and can be downloaded here:

http://epicrewind.com/

Anyway, thanks for reading!
 

Edited October 20, 2013 by theswiftness