In-game moive recorder?

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In-game moive recorder?

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I've seen various avatars showing clips from movies and games. How do you do it? Is there some kind of software you can download? If so where?
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Post by iohkus »

i know me and some people tried using software to capture video and ended up getting shitty recording frames / second and big ass files on our HD. to capture ingame video or anything off your pc you need to export your video card signal to a VCR / Digital Camcorder / Editing Deck

you'd need a decent video card that has TV-Out

hardware capturing is the only way

and good PC software to edit video with is adobe premiere

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Post by Franz Schubert »

I'm sure there's a good way to capture it with software.
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Post by Jimmyjay86 »

There is vid capture software out there but it costs. A few games use proprietary formats like bink so it should be a matter of getting the coverter and then transferring it to mpeg and then converting it to animated gif, etc. A lot of trouble but if you have time and have ritalin on hand, you should be able to do it.
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Post by Calal »

Camtasia Studios has some tools as does something called Techsmith. Don' t know if they work properly but I know they give out a 14 day trial.

Otherwise the proposition of Iokhus ain' t that bad, despite the cost and time necessary to achieve it.
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Post by Franz Schubert »

There's no cost for iohkus's way... You just need the video card, the cord to the TV (you should have one, if not they're cheap), and the VCR + a blank tape. Of course, if you want to edit it digitally, you need to take some extra steps ;)
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Post by S4ur0n27 »

Franz_Schubert wrote:There's no cost for iohkus's way... You just need the video card, the cord to the TV (you should have one, if not they're cheap), and the VCR + a blank tape. Of course, if you want to edit it digitally, you need to take some extra steps ;)
Yay, the video card, the cord, the VCR and the tape are free?
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Is this what you're looking for?

http://www.fraps.com/
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