Alright well I've looked through the stickies and none of them seem to mention how to actually capture footage while you're playing bf2. There are tips on compressing, presentation, special fx and what not but I can't find the basics. All I want is to make a first person vid of myself playing bf2, nothing special. So which program can I use? I've tried the fraps trial version and that turned out to be a waste of time since it only records 30 secs and the file is huge. I'm trying to get at least 15-30mins of footage. I hear you can only use battlerecord if you're the server admin or the server you play on has battlerecorder, which is not the case... I'm sure there are plenty of other ways though, so what would you suggest?
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You can buy the full version which will allow you to record longer than 30 seconds, hope that helps. BR has to be a serverside setting, not sure on how you go about finding one as I don't use it. -
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The fraps files are too big, I know you can compress them afterwards but before compression every 30 sec file is 240mb even on the lowest quality, which means that a 15 min vid would take over 7 gigs. That's a bit too much for my taste.Originally posted by [ht].kenComment
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Well a 15 minute video of just you playing is quite long and boring (only vid I've seen around that long would be the top gear parody and I loved it)....video editting takes a lot of hdd space, facts of life.Comment
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Loool I didn't pay for FRAPS.
Oh and video editing isn't something you just learn over night
Annddd I have two hard drives, an 80 and a 300.xfire: chodda
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Yea getting a full version of fraps is no problem but I'll have to free up a lot of space lol. Btw, if I record say a 15 gig file, to what extent can I compress it? Is it going to be under 500mb?Comment
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Wrong. If you put your recorded video file through Windows Movie Maker, you can have the exact same good quality and still have a much lesser file. 30 secs recording is not around 240 MB. Much, much less.Originally posted by BG1Comment
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VirtualDub is always a handy program.xfire: chodda
steam: w0ofzComment
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yea when you compress it becomes much smaller but during the actual recording the file that is saved in the fraps folder is huge.Originally posted by EC-Paulus-Comment
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You can use GameCam, it converts as it records.Comment
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Doesn't PB kick you for that? I think I've heard that once.Originally posted by |D|-CrazycanuckComment
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I don't know. I used it last year, within the first 6 months of BF2 being released, without a problem. Not sure if now ir anything has changed.
I might give it a try tomorrow, see what happens.Comment
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