Video recording software.

[dajonkel 3]

I'm thinking of maybe making some video's, or at least record some fun moments with friends here or there but there's a ton of programs out there that all seem to promote different features.

Of course I'm looking for the best quality vs performance loss, and it being free would be very nice too but as editing internet video's is a profession nowadays I'm sure there's all sorts of things that are important too that I'm missing.

What program do you use and why?

[JeffCraig 1]

Fraps is a very popular video capturing software. It's been around forever and is pretty lightweight. You can choose the quality you record with, but it works fine for me at full quality, just takes up lots of GBs. You can fill up a terabyte pretty quick.

You can also use TwitchTV, which is a live streaming service, but it saves your videos in your profile on the website. That's basically a two-fer-one, because you don't have to worry about converting and uploading the vids to youtube, or whatever. I think it has a subscription fee... after a trial period, but I'm not sure.