I'm trying to record some footage of my OpenGL application to upload it to YouTube. What software should I have a look at for doing this? I'm absolutely clueless when it comes to codecs/encoders etc so any advice on where to start would be much appreciated. I'm looking to record at 480p.
Should I be looking at some sort of screen capture software like Cam Studio? The output from this seeks OK but the files sizes are huge.
Cheers.
Advice for recording OpenGL game footage for YouTube
I'm a fan of FRAPs.
It will dump a giant losslessly-compressed video to your hard drive, that then needs to be converted to a compressed codec before you upload to youtube. The advantage here is that because you perform the (very expensive) compression step as a post-process, you don't take nearly as much of a performance hit while recording.
It will dump a giant losslessly-compressed video to your hard drive, that then needs to be converted to a compressed codec before you upload to youtube. The advantage here is that because you perform the (very expensive) compression step as a post-process, you don't take nearly as much of a performance hit while recording.
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I'm a fan of FRAPs.
It will dump a giant losslessly-compressed video to your hard drive, that then needs to be converted to a compressed codec before you upload to youtube. The advantage here is that because you perform the (very expensive) compression step as a post-process, you don't take nearly as much of a performance hit while recording.
Thanks for that, I've tried fraps and have to agree the output is great. What program do you suggest for converting to a compressed codec? I have no idea what settings etc to use and so far the resultant videos on YouTube have looked awful
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If you can afford it, then it might be a good idea to upload the entire FRAPS video to YouTube, and let them do the work of converting it.
If you can afford it, then it might be a good idea to upload the entire FRAPS video to YouTube, and let them do the work of converting it.[/quote]
Please don't. You're just wasting your time and everyone's bandwidth by uploading gigabytes to youtube. Besides I think there is an upload limit anyway. Just download VirtualDub, grab the XViD codec and use that (with a compression level of 1.1-1.3 it looks good and is quite small). Best thing I ever did, works perfectly.
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