How to record a cutscene to mpeg or avi

[LightWalker]

Anyone got an idea on how to record a nice cutscene to a videofile like mpeg or avi? What program should I use?http://

[Kaliyuga]

www.fraps.com

is one program.. its not neccesarily the best thing in the world though
:cheers:

[O Neil]

Reckon we could ellaborate ? Cause Fraps doesn't work for me.

Any others ?

O'Neil

[LightWalker]

Indeed, Fraps doesn't work for me either...

[Kaliyuga]

Here are  a few more programs guys....

http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp
(free 30 day trial)

http://www.topshareware.com/Capture-Solution-download-6101.htm
(shareware I think )

never used either one...  

p.s.   try searching for  'screen capture software'  on a search engine

:cheers:

[toadlife]

Which version of fraps doesn't work for you guys? It should work unless your system is really really old.

I bought version 2.0 of fraps and it works like a charm. The free version of fraps sucks for recording video, so don't even bother, but it you have a good system fraps 2.0 is great.

Check out this Hidden and Dangerous 2 video I made with fraps...

http://www.toadlife.net/stuff/forum_stuff/h&d2-scout-small.avi

Requires divx codec (http://www.divx.com)

[O Neil]

Hey

WEll, I don't remember, it was a few months ago.
THe problem was that it was recording 2kb files, and I was like, wtf. I found some info which told me to change the resolution of the game. I did that and naturally, it didn't work & it screwed up my graphics in the game.

Hope 1 of these 2 work

O'Neil

PS: If they don't I'll kill ya

[toadlife]

WEll, I don't remember, it was a few months ago.
THe problem was that it was recording 2kb files,

You mean 2GB files? yeah it records them uncompressed. You won't find a program that won't record them uncompressed, ebcause compressing the videos on the fly would kill the framerate too much. You've got to procces them with a program like Virtual Dub after you record them - also you can't be using crap operating systems like win98/ME, because the FAT filesystem has a filesize limit of 2GB.

[O Neil]

Na soz, what I ment was it was recording heaps of 2kb files instead of 1 video file

O'Neil

[LightWalker]

Ok, I tried Fraps (the trial one) and after recording my system couldnt read the avi-file. Nope, its a new system with XP. Maybe you are right, I should try the full version - but you know, buying it for just 1 capture is not really what I would love to do  ;D

[Kaliyuga]

did you try either of the programs I suggested?

:cheers: