In game video grabbing.

[Legacy_Borden Haelven]

               Which is the best software for capturing in-game video?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_OldTimeRadio]

               I really like X-Fire's video capture system.  It's really, really easy to use.  It goes through a lot of disk space when you initially record because it records as raw video, then afterward it does the compression and uploading to X-Fire if you decide to keep the footage.

Once it's compressed you can turn right around and also upload the same (processed) video file to YouTube or any number of other places, no problem.  I've had a problem with this latest version of X-Fire compressing the videos I take and uploading them to their site- I suppose I'll have to reinstall to fix whatever glitch is going on.

But I'm still able to take videos and manually compress them (using a tool that comex with X-Fire) and upload them to YouTube. 

Screencapping video manually, and getting the bitrate and the codec correctly set can be a royal pain in the ass.  X-Fire takes all of that hassle out of the equation.

If you click the white X in my sigline you'll go to my X-Fire video page and you can see videos I've made using it.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Izk The Mad]

               I've wondered about doing some video capture too. The question I have is, do you have to upload the videos to X-Fire, or can you disable that feature? It would be nice to have some control over it, like if it needs to edited in any way.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Izk The Mad, 08 janvier 2012 - 01:38 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Borden Haelven]

               Not sure but you can set it up to automatically log in and upload it to You Tube. Doing it now. You could edit the raw avi file, overwrite the original then encode and upload that.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Borden Haelven, 08 janvier 2012 - 02:08 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_OldTimeRadio]

               

Izk The Mad wrote...
The question I have is, do you have to upload the videos to X-Fire, or can you disable that feature? It would be nice to have some control over it, like if it needs to edited in any way.

Nah, you don't have to upload the files at all if you don't want to.  After you record it a little window will pop up showing you a video you can select to upload if you want to.  If you don't, you can later go to the Files tab in X-Fire, hunt down to Videos > Source Videos and open the directory where it resides.  If your video editor understands the codec X-Fire used to record raw (and it probably can), then you could theoretically edit the video and then use X-Fire to upload it later, but I haven't tried that before so I really don't know.

I believe (again, if your video editing software can read the codec the raw video data is stored in) that you could edit the video (say, putting titles or whatever) and then maybe compress it with the xfencoder.exe which is in your X-Fire install directory or (definitely) just upload the video to YouTube where it'll compress it for you.  Something like that really depends on whether you can save it using the same codec and settings X-Fire used to store the raw video, though.

I use it mostly for WIP snippets so your mileage may vary when it comes to postprocessing and then trying to fit it back into the (X-Fire) system.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par OldTimeRadio, 08 janvier 2012 - 02:24 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               I currently use fraps for video capture, but I'm capped at 30 seconds. I might have to give xfire a try.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_WebShaman]

               Gregion works well.