Video Capture

[00Sniper]

For video capture, does anyone know of any software that videotapes ur screen or a window without lag to gb?  I tried camtasia or sumthin, but the game smoothness goes at the same rate as the videotaping, i.e 1 frame per second = 1 frame per second for gb =/  any other methods/software out there that is better?

[Bravodor]

I used camstudio a bit.

Pretty much all of them cuase lag, and some dont work at all with gunbound.

Fraps and Camstudio are really the only ones Ive ever used for anything, and of the 2 camstudio is better.

[JirotheHero]

There is a program called Snagit. But it will probably lag your game.

I played a game called graalonline and when i tried to use it, i got lagged so bad.

[Bravodor]

all those programs slow the frame rate down alot.
I dont think you really can using free sotfware...

[creedo]

There is a trick you can use but it is quite tedious.  I think it is what kiwibonga uses to capture video.

Using a video card that can output to normal A/V (red/white/yellow plugs) ... and a tv or vcr that can accept A/V input, have the video from your PC output to a TV monitor, then use a VCR to record it.  

Then you can capture the VCR playback later using that video card.
Never tried it so... sorry if it dun work.

[SmellyBeans]

You mean this?

[00Sniper]

of course, theres the size issue o.0, a few minutes will equate to a hundred mb or so =/  especially at the higher quality (higher fps)

[MetallicSlug]

Do it the Oddity way: have someone rapidly press F11 while you do something amazing, then animate the screens into a GIF.

[creedo]

I was SO eager to try fraps, then BANG: XP or 2000 ONLY PLZ

WAH :/

Can someone tell me if it works well and post a sample?

[kiwibonga]

Fraps doesn't work with gunbound, probably because it doesn't use Direct3D...

The way I do it is I plug the TV in to the TV out on my video card and use virtualdub to save directly to divx... You can use any kind of webcam software if you don't like virtualdub... It has absolutely no performance hit if you have a computer fast enough to compress divx while playing gunbound (My 2 Ghz athlon does the job fine, yet fraps and other capture software lag it beyond playability.)

[happylight]

This is recorded with Camtasia at 30fps then repackaged to Quick Time Movie format:

http://gunbound.loquarium.com/pic/killeverfree.mov

890kb for 9 seconds of movie. XD

When I recorded this it did lag my computer somewhat, and I almost messed up on the drag.

[Ramza]

The Oddity way works pretty well.. just mash F11 or get GBSU so it won't lag you as much when taking a screenshot. If you use GBSU, it won't 'delay' the game to capture a screenshot. All you have to do is set the check to 0.1 seconds and mash it.  

[Petroleum]

This is recorded with Camtasia at 30fps then repackaged to Quick Time Movie format:

http://gunbound.loquarium.com/pic/killeverfree.mov

890kb for 9 seconds of movie. XD

When I recorded this it did lag my computer somewhat, and I almost messed up on the drag.

I use the same, but when I use it, I lag out.  :blink: Hrm, what if there was a full game recorded -- the file size!

I have a 2v2 file for an eight minute game, if anyone wants it I have zipped it. Basically me playing on my noobie practice account. I have to email it, my webspace does not allow a file size over this limit (300+).

[HeadFace]

Step 1: Buy a video camera

Step 2: use it

Step 3: winnar

[SLdK]

I had a recording of a two minute game with this noob.....it was at the resolution of my full screena and it was 100MB  :blink: