Need a good program to capture film

[Wolfy Snackrib]

Hi, I'm looking for a program that is waaaaaay better than fraps. I try to use it, all I get is 5fps and lousy sound, even though I got it set for good quality and 30 fps. Does someone know of a good program where I can film around 30 or more frames per second and good sound? Also the files with fraps are huge, I got 160 mbs for 29 seconds!

 

[ComradeBadger]

Just record a demo of you playing, then record the demo using Fraps.

 

[Wolfy Snackrib]

That's exactly what I did!!! I got from putting on best quality, 5 fps plus so shitty sound it sounds like someone taking a dump!

 

[Ennui]

You can use rad game tools to play it back differently or something, ask the dark elf.

 

[Wolfy Snackrib]

Okay I've installed the rad video tools program but I can't do anything with the demo files.

 

[diluted]

There was a thread somewhere on these forums that explained how to to this... you need to record a demo of you playing first, then while playing back the demo, you have to use some command (I think its "startmovie"?) which will output thousands of TGA files (each for every frame of the demo) into some folder. It will also generate a WAV file for the sound. Then you can use a program like VirtualDub to put it all together somehow.

Also the files with fraps are huge, I got 160 mbs for 29 seconds!

That's because you need to compress it first, with VirtualDub or Windows Media Encoder.

 

[Wolfy Snackrib]

OH screw this whole movie making thing then!! I'll just stick to good old demos.

 

[netrex]

If you want to get footage from HL2, DO NOT use Fraps.

Use as diluted said, startmovie.

You set the framerate with host_framerate. Then startmovie filename. That will export TGA screenshots with the filename you spesified and a number after it. Then you just use VirtualDub to encode it to whatever codec you want.

If you for example bind this:

• bind "ins" "host_framerate 30;wait;startmovie 30"
• bind "pgdn" "endmovie;host_framerate 0;demotimescale 1"

It will export 30 frames per second for the action that happens after you push Insert and until you push Page Down. If you have sound set to stereo, it will also export the sound to a .wav file with the filename you specified with the startmovie command.

Remember in VirtualDub to set the same framerate you exported. Then the sound will be perfectly synched to the footage you exported.

If you export 90FPS to get good slowmotion (don't slow down 30FPS as it will become choppy unless it's a choppy effect you want) which will show the action at 1/3rd of realtime, then you can either make the footage 90FPS, then add the sound, and slow it down while editing, or you can make it 30FPS and then slow down the sound in a program like Sony Sound Forge for example to 1/3rd to fit the movie footage.