what are some good screen recorders?

[Kimono]

so ive been playing some games and i want to record some of them but recording in 1680x1050 30 fps on fraps is about 8 GB a minute of footage, and no thanks.

I've used bandicam before, very low drain, but bandicam/youtube doesnt like to record in anything over 720p and when viewed on 720p the quality is obviously worse than fraps.

Bandicam Original File Size: about 250 MB

Fraps Original File Size: 17 GB

so yea

i dont care if it costs money, ill buy it, i just dont want stuff quality and 8GB a minute of footage

is there a middleman

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[Dr.shoe...]

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okay seriously, camtasia is nice.

[TheKhoz]

Yeah, Camtasia is great.

[Generation]

I record with screenflow. But I recorded once. :I

[devildogelite]

XSplit [/ur]is really good. A lot of people that are pretty popular use it so I guess it's pretty aight.

[TrollBoat]

maybe if you spend $100 on fraps it'll be good

[Subpixel]

maybe if you spend $100 on fraps it'll be good

maybe if you spend 1 minute reading the op you would know it's about file size

[Kimono]

bump

[Jacksaunt]

MSI Afterburner is similar to a free fraps.

[BlockoBlocko]

I record with screenflow. But I recorded once. :I

The full version is 99 dollars.

99 dollars to remove a watermark? That's absurd.

[KoopaScooper]

If you're looking for one with on-the-fly encoding, good luck finding a decent one that won't look like stuff. Camtasia was the best one with on-the-fly encoding recorder I've had experience with.

[Anybody]

you record with fraps/dxtory, at 30 fps, 1280 x 720 convert to mp4 so that 10 mins comes out just under 1 gb raw footage with dxtory medium quality is around 9 gb fraps is a lot bigger. don't use bandicam don't record 1680x1050, record 16:9 instead for better quality

eg. recorded with dxtory 1280x720, 30fps raw size 7,1 gb, convert to mp4 same framerate and size medium quality after converting size is under 1 gb for 8 min vid

dxtory is ~36usd

[Pecon]

If you're looking for one with on-the-fly encoding, good luck finding a decent one that won't look like stuff. Camtasia was the best one with on-the-fly encoding recorder I've had experience with.

At heart this really just is the issue.

I use Fraps, I deal with the enormous file sizes by archiving the files into .rar format after recording. The storage size goes from like 10GB to 800MB.

[Operator¹]

I left fraps recording at 60 fps while I was playing for an hour which created an enormous 700 gig file.

[KoopaScooper]

I convert all my Fraps video into near-lossless MP4, if I'm uploading it somewhere I'll just convert it to a lower quality.