Recording Your Gameplay?

[a_puma01 7]

other then using a second computer to record myself playing, anyone suggest a good application to record? Dont matter if it requires some computer muscle to run as i have a rather nasty machine. I am totally inexperienced in the whole matter, advice?

[Paul Bunyan 13]

Record a demo of your gameplay by typing "record insertnamehere" in to console. Play the demo by typing "play insertnamehere" in to console. Record the demo with Fraps, you can find it free all over the internet, or if you don't like that stuff buy it for 37 dollars not that expensive. There are other options, but I personally prefer Fraps over everything else I've tried.

The demo part is optional, it just makes it so that you can play normally, and when something cool happens you can access the demo later and record that. It helps with lag too, since you aren't recording the whole game.

After all your crap is recorded, it's simple editing and you're done.

[Victoreem the V of doom 30]

Ok is that avatar you or some actor? I swear Iv seen that face.

[a_puma01 7]

Ok is that avatar you or some actor? I swear Iv seen that face.

Thats a picture of me, my room mate bought these HUGE banana's and i had a laugh over them, took some pictures =P

Record a demo of your gameplay by typing "record insertnamehere" in to console. Play the demo by typing "play insertnamehere" in to console. Record the demo with Fraps, you can find it free all over the internet, or if you don't like that stuff buy it for 37 dollars not that expensive. There are other options, but I personally prefer Fraps over everything else I've tried.

Well i know how to record demo's the problem is, when i am Playing myself, and i try to record a demo of myself While i'm playing.. it gives me some serious latency. My frames are still 150-200ish, my ping doesnt change, yet everything is about 1 second behind my actual imput on the keyboard or mouse movements and it becomes unplayable. I dont know why it does this, but i've always experienced this when playing TF2.

I will be sure to check out Fraps, is Fraps strictly a recording program or is it editing as well? If its not editing, any suggestions on what to use to edit a video?

Thanks for all the advice pal!

[Paul Bunyan 13]

You can capture video and screenshots with Fraps. It will also give you an overlay of your FPS if you want.

For editing, again with the borrowing things from the internet. Sony Vegas 9 Pro (or Platinum, no huge difference to me) is a very nice piece of software. Adobe Premiere is also something to check out, I use both occasionally and I like them just about equally.

Adobe After Effects is also very nice, use it along with Premiere or Vegas, it's just for effects and stuff.

I personally don't use it much unless I'm planning on making something look extremely good, and putting a lot of time in to it, but it does just that. You'll look professional with simple editing.

everything is about 1 second behind my actual imput on the keyboard or mouse movements and it becomes unplayable

I have no idea what's going on here, you might want to just record as you play depending on what you're doing in that case. It will lower your FPS maybe 10 usually? Never really compared.

[FunkyFresh 68]

Gotta have a powerful enough computer to run FRAPs AND your game without experiencing any performance hits.

Either that or set FRAPs to record your videos at halfsize/halffps..

Unless you're needing a recorder for source games, then you outta just record the demos with fraps.

[phantom 29]

if youre having stuttering issues with recording a demo try defragging your shit

also it sometimes desyncs but if you just jump around for a second it syncs back up

[Paul Bunyan 13]

I ran it fine on a shitty rig, he says his is a monster so I figured it would be fine.

Right now I'm running a shitty rig too, and Fraps is always running with no problem. It's only a problem when I record (obviously), which drops me down from 20 FPS to about 10.

[FunkyFresh 68]

Well..yeah.. running it will cause no problems, lmao. It's recording.

[a_puma01 7]

if youre having stuttering issues with recording a demo try defragging your shit

also it sometimes desyncs but if you just jump around for a second it syncs back up

i have just defragged all 4 of my Hd's but mainly the one Steam runs off of about 2 days ago with Disc Keeper.

So that wouldnt be an issue, i'm not sure why i have this issue. WHen i am recording a demo of someone else playing its fine but anytime i try to record my badassery, i get a one second latency from the time i move my mouse or input keyboard commands till it actually does it in the game. I wouldnt be able to kill very many people with a 1 second latency like that, not sure what causes it.

Here is a picture of my custom build

minus the extra hds now in there

[Oww My Nose 19]

Only one graphics card?

SATA HDD's? Where's the SCSI?

Not even going to touch the IDE drive...

It's a monster alright

[a_puma01 7]

Only one graphics card?

SATA HDD's? Where's the SCSI?

Not even going to touch the IDE drive...

It's a monster alright

Yes only one graphics card, bought it like AWHILE ago.

Geforce 260

there is no IDE drive in there only sata's

Thats a dvd burner you see up there!

[phantom 29]

i have a really old computer, athlon xp 2800+, 1gb ram(at pro 333mhz), and a 6600gt. when i record demos it doesnt cause any lag for me

so something is up on your end

also i use 5400rpm ata100 drives.

[Oww My Nose 19]

Yes only one graphics card, bought it like AWHILE ago.

Geforce 260

there is no IDE drive in there only sata's

Thats a dvd burner you see up there!

it's still a drive, even if it's a dvd burner

anyways, not a beast. I'll take a picture of the innards of my computer tomorrow... that thing's a beast

[Victoreem the V of doom 30]

i have a really old computer, athlon xp 2800+, 1gb ram(at pro 333mhz), and a 6600gt.

also i use 5400rpm ata100 drives.