Whats a good video recorder for gameplay?

[Sitrus]

shadowplay

If you have a newer NVIDIA card then shadowplay is really your best option

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[beachbum111111]

I suggest to record your video on another disk than what disk your game is running on

I tried recording OBS to a USB and the same problems apply.

Since alot of you use and recommend OBS I'll post my settings here, maybe you could help me out

[Unwritten Calender]

Action!
pls
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just a little pricey. but worth

[QuadStorm]

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Here are the settings I use that get pretty decent results, aside from color wise which I have not found any desktop recorder that gets the colors perfect (note that it will probably be very performance taxing if you don't have high end components; also I'm using OBS multiplatform too if that makes any major difference):
-Custom Buffer Size of 0 (this allows for the file to be as large as it needs to be)
-CRF of 13 (default highest quality is ~18 or so, while 0 is loseless which I don't recommend for file size and performance reasons) This will probably make the most difference in quality.
-CPU usage of veryfast: haven't noticed any real visual difference while there is a large performance difference, no need to change it
Every other setting is either insignificant or the same as yours.

[beachbum111111]

-CRF of 13 (default highest quality is ~18 or so, while 0 is loseless which I don't recommend for file size and performance reasons) This will probably make the most difference in quality.

I can't seem to find "CRF"

[QuadStorm]

I can't seem to find "CRF"

in regular OBS (not multiplatform) you have to add this to the custom encoder settings, under the "use cfr" button

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crf=Xwhere x is obviously the crf value to set the crf value

[beachbum111111]

in regular OBS (not multiplatform) you have to add this to the custom encoder settings, under the "use cfr" button

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crf=Xwhere x is obviously the crf value to set the crf value

The quality has improved but I still get horrible stuttering

[McJob]

shadowplay

I have a Radeon HD 7950

[Jonathant1]

MSI Afterburner
Works fine but the file size is loving terrible (20 seconds at 1.5 GB) and the file size remains massive even if I turn down the settings to half frame.

Im not sure what settings you have, but I dont get 1.5 GB from 20 seconds of footage. I get around 1.5 GB from 1 minute of footage. Generally I keep quality at 90% and it looks decent, although audio quality isnt that great which probably resulted from compression

old footage using msi afterburner http://youtu.be/hM-_yzq-4Yc

on a side note, I would post the settings I have for afterburner for you to test, but im not in the US atm

[Ipquarx]

Fraps will give you large lossless (100% quality) files. Around 1GB per minute. You can then use software like Handbrake to encode it into mp4 with a reasonable file size.

OBS is good. I don't know why you're having issues with it. Could you post a video recorded with it?

[Planr]

Fraps will give you large lossless (100% quality) files. Around 1GB per minute. You can then use software like Handbrake to encode it into mp4 with a reasonable file size.

OBS is good. I don't know why you're having issues with it. Could you post a video recorded with it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o81CgkDHVuE

I'm having audio issues with my OBS recordings where the audio is more shrill/loud-sounding than it actually is in-game. Is there a way to fix this?

[Ipquarx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o81CgkDHVuE

I'm having audio issues with my OBS recordings where the audio is more shrill/loud-sounding than it actually is in-game. Is there a way to fix this?

The video looks fine, and the audio sounds fine too...



You can slide that red volume bar down a bit to lower the volume of the in-game recording though.

[beachbum111111]

OBS is good. I don't know why you're having issues with it. Could you post a video recorded with it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myj3GDYfVgY&feature=youtu.be (wait for it to process)
None of this stuttering happens when I'm recording. Only the final result.
It seems to be not as bad when I set it to 30 FPS. This might just be a problem with Halo Online or that it's not at a constant 60 FPS since while I'm recording with OBS it drops the framerate by 5 FPS.

[Foopster]

http://www.ezvid.com/
this seemed good for a while, but im not sure now.

[beachbum111111]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myj3GDYfVgY&feature=youtu.be (wait for it to process)
None of this stuttering happens when I'm recording. Only the final result.
It seems to be not as bad when I set it to 30 FPS. This might just be a problem with Halo Online or that it's not at a constant 60 FPS since while I'm recording with OBS it drops the framerate by 5 FPS.

And it does this for games like Half Life 2 as well. Games that shouldn't lag at all