I've always wondered, what do you guys use to make videos of your games? I see these quite a bit and it's pretty cool.
Thanks in advance,
--Snake
Fraps is a good choice. Though I think the free version only lets you capture up to 30 seconds at a time!
http://www.fraps.com
I use camstasia (google it). Which works with AGS, cause last time I checked fraps didn't work with AGS very well...
I found a bunch of freeware ones at the link below but don't know how good or bad they are.
[url]http://www.swftools.com/tools-category.php?cat=929[url]
[edit] fix link
Camtasia has always worked with AGS although the framerate isn't necessarily good or synced to AGS. Fraps was designed to record 3D games, and it didn't previously work with AGS for me, but if you run your game in AGS 3.0's Direct 3D mode, it probably will. Fraps records each frame off the card so it's perfect quality and framerate.
If you use Fraps you'll need to know how to recompress the videos that it outputs because it does no compression on its own.
Thanks, guys :) I'll give Camtasia and Fraps a try at one point.
I'll try google again some time, wasn't able to locate any. Just thought I'd ask you guys since I've seen a few videos made here before.
--Snake
Bah, videos. Just make a simple demo with almost no interactions.
Now THAT'S old school! :D
I would suppose posting a video on YouTube, MySpace, the like is a good (or at least fashionable) way of promoting one's game.
Another alternative is GameCam, which has an in-built divx encoder so that your videos don't need 200MB for 30sec.
I recommend CamStudio (http://camstudio.org/) (Freeware).
After recording a 320x200/16bit game for 45 seconds I ended up with a 750K swf-movie with fine quality and even controls at the bottom.
Cheers Khris! CamStudio is AWESOME :)
1 minute of 320x240 AVI at less than 3mb, awesome!
I think i'll be sticking with this one, rather than Fraps...woot! And the conversion to SWF is a fantastic feature too. No stupid watermarks either :D
http://www.screen7.co.uk/junc/camstudio_test.wmv
(does not stream so well lol)
None of these programs seem to capture audio though, and I've tried them on different machines. Am I missing something or are they not designed to capture sound?
Downloading CamStudio now. Thanks Khris!
And thanks M0DSie for posting that video test, it's just what I wanted to see - video with a song playing in the background. Simple.
--Snake
Quote from: m0ds on Tue 13/11/2007 11:51:16None of these programs seem to capture audio though, and I've tried them on different machines. Am I missing something or are they not designed to capture sound?
Have you tried recording sound internally before? Some of the newer sound cards don't support recording directly from the speakers, or whatever you call it. That might be it; otherwise these programs all record sound. At least Camstudio does.
Hypercam2 is very common and simple to use.