capturing video.

[King Class Scout]

I must have did something right with my maintenence, because my Bridge Commander is playing smooth as silk.  I wanted to capture some video for posterity.  i enthusiasticly downloaded a capture program.

ufortunately, both BC and the capture program want the keyboard and the mouse at the same time, and caused a funky crash, resulting in an unusable vid.  this happened when I swapped to cinematic mode for a better picture:P

any suggestions?

[teleguy]

I never had any problems with Xfire.

http://www.xfire.com/

[CJLarkin]

Chances are that your F9 key is assigned to a recording function in this software, most probably "Stop".
Simply go into the programme and change all keys so they aren't F9 and voila.

[King Class Scout]

Simpsons Adama:  actually, it was a "digital zoom".  i disabled that, and tried again.  this time, BC was out of scale, and when I rezides it again, all my mutators were off.  when i went to go kill the recording and BC...they locked the whole thing up

I'll probably try this again tomorrow.

[Daystar70]

I Use Fraps it really has been hands down the best one i have played with.

[ACES_HIGH]

same here, fraps has to be the best recorder I've tried.

[ekbalam]

Fraps dude. I've tried 5 or 6 different video capture programs. Bottom line is if you want to capture video with software, Fraps has presented the fewest problems and captures the best frame rate...in my experience anyway.

[Lionus]

Fraps is probably too heavy for his comp. it's too heavy for mine, and I have better processor than he does. What about gamecam or was it guncam?

[limey BSc.]

CamStudio :arms:

Best I've come across. FRAPS lagged the crap out of my system, CamStudio ran beautifully.

[King Class Scout]

what i DID pick up ( BSR?) worked allright, but it has to be set up and recording before you start BC.  it also has a nasty case of permanent watermark.  damn demos...
i got a bit of slowdown while recording, but not as bad as I thought.

[Daystar70]

Fraps is probably too heavy for his comp. it's too heavy for mine, and I have better processor than he does. What about gamecam or was it guncam?

Well Fraps can be tweaked, If you set it for half size vs full or record sound etc, it makes a huge difference. And of course what frame rate settings. The only downside is it east a lot of space, i usually post recording will take say, a bunch of combat footage in BC load it In AVS vid editer which is my software of choice for edits at present, and clip/ trim and save as a smaller sized vid and delete the 1-3 GB ones Fraps churned out.