Recording video of your mission.

[skinnadoor]

What is the best program to record footage of you flying and chatting (Audio) with friends in DCS?

 

Thoughts?

[Corvus]

I would say Nvidia Shadowplay (if you have nvidia card that is). I saw no slowdowns while recording, no stuttering, nothing. You won't notice it's there:)

[ZaltysZ]

I use NVIDIA Shadow Play (available for 6xx cards and newer). It is still immature, but works well enough. In fact, recording is always on for my MP flights as there is not much performance decrease (1-2FPS)

 

The tricky part is recording the TS3 chatter. ShadowPlay records everything you hear, but it can also record your mic. Unfortunately, it is unacceptable the way it does. It does not have controls to change mic input gain, reduce echoes and noise, so your own voice usually sound very bad (too load, too silent, too much hiss and etc.) when compared how other people sound on TS3.

 

I use specific approach for recording voices: I make Shadow Play record only in-game (what I hear) sound, but connect to same TS3 room twice using 2 separate tabs: one tab has muted speakers, and another one had muted mic. This way I hear myself when I am talking, and so my voice gets recorded to video with the same quality as others. Unfortunately, this approach requires a bit of training. It is not so easy to talk when your hear your own voice with slight delay: it can make you sound weird, stutter, and it can make you feel like you are always interrupting somebody. However, once used, you will be able to record high quality captures pretty much in effortless way (no sound track cleaning, no merging of separate voice tracks and so on).

[BIGNEWY]

He is using AMD :)

 

Fraps and OBS are good

 

https://obsproject.com/

[ZaltysZ]

He is using AMD :)

 

AMDs with VCE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Codec_Engine) should be able to do the same what NVIDIA >= 6xx cards do: use built in H.264 codec to do high performance screen capturing. Unfortunately, there is still no utility like ShadowPlay for AMDs, but I think new version of RadeonPro will have new functions for this.

 

Some users have tried to achieve capturing in their own way:

[Tone71]

Dxtory provides decent quality (if set up correctly) and will happily record multiple audio sources as separate tracks.

[ArcticSilence]

I have very positive experience with Action! by Mirilis.

I play on pretty old machine, 3.0 DualCore, ATI 5700 Sapphire (overclocked) and 8Gb of ram and I don't have stutters and problems when recording, while if I use FRAPS it get all messy...

[skinnadoor]

He is using AMD :)

 

Fraps and OBS are good

 

https://obsproject.com/

 

 

 

I carried out an upgrade last week. I'm still running the old card until the ASUS STRIX GTX970 4GB shows up.

 

 

THanks for the tip on Shadow play. Hopefully it's all sorted out in a future patch.