Need help with FRAPS

[billyro]

Hi everyone.

 

Just recently, my friend and I decided to play through the co-op in Portal 2. I got his consent and have been recording our progress through the game using FRAPS. While the actual video is working fine, I'm having a few audio problems.

 

My voice is so loud that it dominates everything else (in the recording), while in-game all the sounds are on par with each other. My voice and my friend's voice were almost identical (from what I can tell) while playing, but FRAPS seems to have recorded my own voice a lot louder than the actual game (and pressing the keys and clicking the mouse is very loud too). This means that I can barely hear my friend or the game sound effects/music.

 

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

In the "Movies" tab on FRAPS, I have Record Win7 Sound ticked, Stereo ticked, Record External Input ticked (Microphone 3-Logitech G35 Headset), and constantly capturing.

I'm not sure that if I disable Record External Input, I'll have any voice in my recordings. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks for all help.

Edited April 16, 2013 by billyro

[Illiad86]

Yeah, if you turn that off, you won't get any recording of your voice. Looking through FRAPS atm, I don't see any option to "turn it down". My guess is you would have to go into the sound properties in Windows and turn down the recording volume of your microphone. You would probably have to turn down the microphone volume in Steam as well.

Edited April 16, 2013 by Illiad86

[billyro]

Yeah, I'll try different things to see if they work later tonight. Earlier this morning I had a look at my microphone options and found that the Levels were on +24.0 dB, so I turned it down a bit. Haven't tested to see if it made any difference but hopefully.

The actual commincation through Portal 2 (I don't think it uses Steam for communication - my friend set it up so I dunno) sounds fine, just the recording with FRAPS. Perhaps FRAPS is recording my voice as an overlay of my voice in the game, so it comes out double loud from being put on top of each other.

 

Eh, I'm not sure, I'll need to test.

 

 

 

EDIT: I have been tweaking 1 million different things and I seem to have found a nice balance between all. It's working good now. :)

Edited April 16, 2013 by billyro

[Illiad86]

Excellent! Glad you got it all sorted out :)