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The Nerd
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Hi all


Well i have always wondering about a thing.
When people in here have showed a video of there game when they play it how can they record the screen??
I mean you only see the screen so i dont think its recorded with an camrecorder so how do they record the screen????
I know the print screen button but that button only take a pic of the screen.


so how do you record the screen?





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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 16:54
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Well, you could go here...

http://studiox64.co.uk/blitzavi.php

...and use the attached dba file to access the functionality from DB. The attachment was posted here by the developer some time ago.

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There are many programs that do it, like camtasia.

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The Nerd
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well someone know a free full version of a screen recorder program were it record avi files ?????




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i use screencorder by matchware -very good

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i use camstudio very good program and dont ever give the good old out of ram message

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bitJericho
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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 22:33
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wag, the problem with screen recorders is they won't catch every frame during your game and thus make the video choppy..

The best idea is to save out bitmaps of the screen every frame..

It will slow your game down considerably so you will need to adjust your program to accomodate this slowdown, but if you do it properly, you can get some stunning animations..

your frames should be listed as numbers with leading zeros...

00001.bmp 00002.bmp etc..

Then pop em all together in an avi creator program

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Why leading zeros?

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Dude, just get Fraps. It's that simple. It is so fast that you can use it with any modern game that is DirectX or OpenGL compatible. Along with that you also get the ability to easily make screenshots and you can benchmark any game that you can record videos in. The only problem with this is that the trial version limits videos to 30 seconds.

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looks like evil monkey got a winner^_^

Oop.. forgot to mention.. you need leading zeros, because windows generally reads numerical order starting from left to right, rather than right to left..

for example..
1
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
2
20
etc..

vs
001
002
003
004
005
006
007
008
009
010

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Posted: 17th Nov 2004 06:17 Edited at: 17th Nov 2004 06:21
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I use http://www.hyperionics.com/hc/index.asp it's free to do avi captures when i need them quick.

But like jerico stated that is the best way to do it to keep the quality up, only thing is you'll need a lot of hd space to do it that way, as depending on your screen rez of the video you want a couple thousand 800 x 600 bmp can equal 60 gb + disk space reason being that you'll have 30 bmps for 1 sec of video equaling around 1 mb a bmp - 30mb a second 1.8 gbs a min of footage that is if you want to keep the framerate up to 30 fps so just make sure you will have enough hd space before you do it this way.

After you get all your bmp's and there numbered like jerico said you could use http://www.virtualdub.org/download batch convert the image sequence into a avi using a codec like divx to compress it down the final avi.
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what i do it plugin my TV-out on my pc's graffix card into a VCR and hit record. then use the video tape to showcase your game to tv shows etc.

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