programs

[myheartgone]

hey does anyone no where i can get a program to record my oblivion for my my mods :thanks:

[MRG]

Do you mean record in-game footage of your mods running so you can show others? There are several different ways to do this. You can use a software based program, & you can use a hardware based program such as a capture card with the software that comes with it. However, to keep it simple, i'm gonna just list software options at this time.

 

I would advise you to try one of the following.

 

1) Fraps

http://www.fraps.com/download.php

 

2) FastCapPro

http://www.ejoystudio.com/

 

3) GameCam

http://www.planetgamecam.com/

 

4) WeGame

http://www.wegame.com/download/

 

The above are only a very few of the programs that are out that lets you record in-game video.

 

Not sure how well you know how to edit your videos, so i'll post a quick little how to. Sorry if it's too basic for you or if you already knew everything I posted or have a better way.

 

Greetings all,

 

Welcome to my guide on how to capture video while playing ingame. While I am well aware there are several better programs that are available, I will be covering video capture taken with the free program called "FRAPS" This version of Fraps has been developed with the 43.45 Detonators for Geforce cards, and the 3.2 Catalysts for Radeon cards. Please make sure your installed video card drivers are at least these versions! Earlier drivers may suffer performance problems.

 

(LMAO! These are waaaay older versions of these drivers. Of course you'll have newer versions installed.... Right? )

 

Since I am not the maker of "FRAPS", my recommended system requirements will differ than of what the makers suggest. I have tried on a "Lesser PC" & had mundo problems & performance issues.

 

Recommended PC:

Pentium 4 or AthlonXP @ 1.50ghz or faster

Radeon 8500, GeForce 3 or better

At LEAST 512mb RAM. More = BETTER.

40gb HDD or larger

WinXP HE or PE

 

The Programs I used are free (Other than WinXP) & have no time limit or Watermark stamped onto the edited Video.

 

1) FRAPS http://www.fraps.com/ -Ingame Video Capture Program that saves video in .AVI Format.

 

2) VirtualDub http://www.virtualdub.org/ - VirtualDub is a video

capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

 

3) TMPGEnc MPEG Encoder http://www.tmpgenc.net/ -Converts .AVI files to MPEG. Allows editing of source video & joining of an audio file such as .WAV or MP3 to the source Video. Also converted files to MPEG are smaller in size than most other formats. After you used "Windows Movie Maker 2" & saved your movie, you could then use "TMPGEnc MPEG Encoder" to convert the finished video to MPEG which would then also be smaller in size, while keeping the videos overall quality.

 

4) Windows XP Home or Professional.

 

5) Windows XP Windows Movie Player 2 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/moviema...moviemaker2.asp (Need to Download if you do not allow Windows to auto-update, as it is downloaded then automatically)

 

Start FRAPS & wait until the Yellow "99" is down in your taskbar. (Next to your Clock) Next Right click on the "99" & click on "Settings" Experiment with the "Sampling Rate", "Overlay Style" & the "Overlay Corner"

 

My Settings:

a)Sampling Rate = Continous

b)Overlay Style = Transparent

c)Overlay Corner = Bottom Right Corner

d)Enable Video Capture Hotkey = This lets you start & stop video capture ingame. I have mine set to "Num 0"

e)Movie Framerate = 20fps (Believe me, your video will look just fine framerate wise.)

f)Enable Screen Capture (Takes Screenshots while ingame) Set the HotKey to whatever you like. Mine is the "Num Lock" key.

 

The following settings after that I have left unchecked.

 

After your done, minimize, or You can also Exit out & then restart FRAPS & your settings will be saved. FRAPS must be running for it to work.

 

Start Game

Now when you capture ingame video with FRAPS, your gaming performance will take a big hit. So I would recommend that you have 2 or more people to film. One to actually do the video capture & the rest to "Act" Of course you already knew this. If you want to do a solo

video, then simply turn the ingame resolution down to 640x480 16bit. This will greatly improve your gaming performance while capturing video at the same time. FRAPS will capture the video @ 640x480, even if your ingame graphics are higher. At the normal screen size of the capture that FRAPS takes, your videos will be of good quality. Any & all videos you

capture will be saved to the FRAPS directory located here (By Default) "C:\Fraps"

 

**CAUTION!!**

RAW video taken with FRAPS will be VERY BIG in size. 3 minutes of ingame capture can easily be over 300mb.

 

Be sure you have the free space on your Hard Drive before you begin. Once you are done capturing the video, go to the FRAPS directory "C:\Fraps" You will now see your video. the name of the video will often be the name of the game you were playing. For examply, You play COD & capture video, then the default name of the video you took

will look something like "COD2342163-663-234" The file type will be .AVI.

 

Here is where it starts to get tricky & it would take me way too long to type out each step on how to convert & edit the video from .AVI to MPEG. Converting the RAW .AVI video to MPEG, will hugely cut the size of the video. For example. A 300mb .AVI video will be around 4mb after you convert it to MPEG. You can convert the video to MPEG by using the

"TMPGEnc MPEG Encoder" I listed earlier above. I would highly advise that you install, FRAPS, TMPGEnc MPEG Encoder & VirtualDub all into the "C:\Fraps" folder. Makes it MUCH easier to find & do everything. I will gladly tell you via TS, Ventrilo or ICQ Voice Chat on how to convert the RAW video. It would take only about 10 minutes. Very simple to "Tell You", very time consuming if I were to type it all out. The GOOD news is that it's pretty straight forward. Anyone can do it if they have a little patience. If I had DSL, I could easily "record my voice" & place the audio file online, but on my lowly 56k & lack of online storage, thats not a feasible way for me to do things at this point.

 

Either before or after you converted the RAW video to MPEG, you could then use "Windows Movie Maker 2" to make the video. Some people won't have "Windows XP" & "Windows Movie Maker" or "Windows Movie Maker 2" Thats why I didn't just say Use "Windows Movie Maker."

 

I'm tired of typing. Post your questions & i'll see if I can help. Remember i'm a noob at this myself. But thought I could pass on what I had learned.

 

-MRG