Topic: Does anyone know a good screen recording software? (Read 33686 times)

Rick Astley · « **on:** September 20, 2011, 11:00:02 am »

i want to try to make a trailer for GE Source and i was wondering what are some good (and possible free) Screen Capture Programs to record footage of gameplay?

Kinky · « **Reply #1 on:** September 20, 2011, 11:26:44 am »

Tricky if it has to be free. Been down this road a lot of times when i was in flash development. I use Camtasia, imo its the best of all such softwares, but its not free.

markpeterjameslegg · « **Reply #2 on:** September 20, 2011, 12:39:52 pm »

Fraps is worth every penny in my opinion, fullscreen capturing with hardly any performance drop. I too have been down this road and have never found anything better than this, sometimes you just have to put your hand in your pocket. Check my channel, these were all recorded using Fraps:-

http://www.youtube.com/user/markpeterjameslegg?feature=mhum

jjmusicnotes · « **Reply #3 on:** September 20, 2011, 03:19:24 pm »

I personally like Bandicam. The demo is free and lets you capture as much as 10 minutes of audio / video. You can even rig it to capture video with a hotkey so that at the 10min mark you just press the hotkey twice (1x to end 1x to start again) and voila, you've got another 10 minutes. then you can just splice the clips together.

The downside is that you get a "bandicam" watermark on playback.

Jeron [SharpSh00tah] · « **Reply #4 on:** September 20, 2011, 06:41:53 pm »

Search back, I know I have seen this thread question like 5 times. Its probably answered in each

terps4life90 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 20, 2011, 08:54:26 pm »

Use Camtasia 7

, great thing about it is that it wont drop frame rate like how fraps does.

markpeterjameslegg · « **Reply #6 on:** September 21, 2011, 03:38:48 am »

I still say Fraps, tried all the rest and Fraps is the smoothest hands down:-

Rodney 1.666 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 21, 2011, 04:20:24 am »

I have over 750GB of raw video to wade through because of Fraps.
Get a compressor first. T_T

terps4life90 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 21, 2011, 05:49:13 am »

Fraps blows! I don't use it simply because it shits on FPS.

CCsaint10 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 21, 2011, 06:37:13 am »

Unless you are using a version of fraps that is above 3.0, then it sucks. I used to have a version 2.x and it was horrible. It would kill my frames like no other. After getting the latest one, it destroyed any other program I tried and it runs twice as smooth now.

Rick Astley · « **Reply #10 on:** September 21, 2011, 10:29:37 am »

I tried FRAPS out and i loathe it it crashed my computer twice

what about Hypercam?

namajnaG · « **Reply #11 on:** September 21, 2011, 12:34:44 pm »

Quote from: Rick Astley on September 21, 2011, 10:29:37 am

I tried FRAPS out and i loathe it it crashed my computer twice

what about Hypercam?

No, Not Hypercam, It really is useless and bad, Go with Camtasia. I believe they still offer a 30-day trial for their product, Which is enough time for you to capture a lot of footage.

Jonathon [SSL] · « **Reply #12 on:** September 21, 2011, 02:29:04 pm »

I've used Fraps for years for 3D application capture, even on my crappy old 9500 GS it still works great, and I've never had any stability issues with it. Just make sure you have the HDD space for all the uncompressed video.

However, for out-of-game recording (like if I'm making a software tutorial or something) I use Camstudio. It's free, open source, and it has all the features I need.

markpeterjameslegg · « **Reply #13 on:** September 21, 2011, 05:07:51 pm »

Quote from: terps4life90 on September 21, 2011, 05:49:13 am

Fraps blows! I don't use it simply because it shits on FPS.

WHAT! I hardly notice any difference, even when I had a low end PC I used Fraps, have been for years and in all those years it's never crashed my computer, I suggest being careful when not downloading from official site, my brother had a similar incident with a cracked version, messed his whole system up.

markpeterjameslegg · « **Reply #14 on:** September 21, 2011, 05:11:18 pm »

Quote from: namajnaG on September 21, 2011, 12:34:44 pm

No, Not Hypercam, It really is useless and bad, Go with Camtasia. I believe they still offer a 30-day trial for their product, Which is enough time for you to capture a lot of footage.

I might have to try Camtasia again, sounds like it's gotten a lot better since I tried it, can't see it replacing Fraps though.

namajnaG · « **Reply #15 on:** September 21, 2011, 11:46:06 pm »

Quote from: markpeterjameslegg on September 21, 2011, 05:11:18 pm

I might have to try Camtasia again, sounds like it's gotten a lot better since I tried it, can't see it replacing Fraps though.

Last version I used back in the day was the 3rd version, Let me tell you that it is WAY different now and really, Really good for desktop recording. I haven't tried it in a game yet, And I don't plan to do so.

Kinky · « **Reply #16 on:** September 22, 2011, 10:58:47 pm »

I use Camtasia for recording screen portions of flash. Works better than any other software ive used for that. But like you i havent used it for fullscreen DX

RogerMooreSucks · « **Reply #17 on:** December 07, 2015, 12:08:41 am »

Fraps in every way sucks. I have a very powerful computer and i tried recording Goldeneye source and it was horrendous. I don't know why people says craps is good. Never had had a pleasant experience with it. I use !ACTION by Miliris. THEE best recording software I ever used in my life.

Rick Astley · « **Reply #18 on:** December 07, 2015, 01:26:29 am »

Filmora video editor now comes with screen recording capabilities but i havent had the time to test it

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