How record video in KSP

[Pawelk198604]

How record video in KSP

[ramipro]

The easiest way I would say is with Fraps. It probably will slow down your computer, but it´s free and it´s good.

[olex]

Fraps is the way to go. Editing can be done with Windows Live Movie Maker, it's free and more than enough for Youtube videos.

[Tim_Barrett]

Fraps is good, but be careful about how many FPS you are recording. Raw footage from fraps just eats up space on your hard drive...

[Vespasianus]

Won't the free version of Fraps only let you record like... 30 seconds?

Cheers

[Ziff]

I had previously used Fraps for a very long time. However, Bandicam has a huge advantage over Fraps in that Bandicam can compress the video as it records which Fraps cannot do. I have paid versions of both and I have pretty much stopped using Fraps, also it seems for me that Bandicam doesn't cause me to take a hit on my FPS while recording in fullscreen where Fraps usually does.

[antman]

I would agree with Ziff. Frap captures the raw video output meaning a 720p windowed recording of 30 minutes @25FPS would be about a 80GB file size :eek:

Bandicam, Mirillis Action or even Xsplit would suit your needs while the instantaneous conversion to .mp4 would mean much smaller files. The main advantage of this is many of the editing programs will grind to a halt if you throw a 80GB file their way!

The advantage of Xsplit is that you can create different "screens" that you can fade in/out live e.g. you can display your initial intro screen then fade down into your gameplay part live. The main advantage there is the reduced amount of editing to be done afterwards so you can just use Windows Movie Maker rather than going for a more complex program like Sony Vegas.

I'm going to sound like a Xsplit employee here, but another advantage is that you can click one button and livestream your video to the net via Twitch.tv or similar. An interesting Twitch.tv feature is the ability to archive your past streams and automatically upload them to youtube.

I'm sorry, I tend to waffle when I get going on this geeky recording stuff. I've been a youtuber for a couple of years and its a damn lonely hobby!

[MrMadGameplay]

I would agree with Ziff. Frap captures the raw video output meaning a 720p windowed recording of 30 minutes @25FPS would be about a 80GB file size :eek:

Bandicam, Mirillis Action or even Xsplit would suit your needs while the instantaneous conversion to .mp4 would mean much smaller files. The main advantage of this is many of the editing programs will grind to a halt if you throw a 80GB file their way!

The advantage of Xsplit is that you can create different "screens" that you can fade in/out live e.g. you can display your initial intro screen then fade down into your gameplay part live. The main advantage there is the reduced amount of editing to be done afterwards so you can just use Windows Movie Maker rather than going for a more complex program like Sony Vegas.

I'm going to sound like a Xsplit employee here, but another advantage is that you can click one button and livestream your video to the net via Twitch.tv or similar. An interesting Twitch.tv feature is the ability to archive your past streams and automatically upload them to youtube.

I'm sorry, I tend to waffle when I get going on this geeky recording stuff. I've been a youtuber for a couple of years and its a damn lonely hobby!

Hey thanks for mentioning Mirillis Action, I find it doesn't eat as much HDD space and ffs

[jfx]

I use MSI Afterburner. It is free and in my opinion it is much better than fraps. With a Intel i5-2500k it can encode the video+audio on the fly (at least as mjpg) so it uses much less space than fraps. 6 Minutes of KSP gameplay are packed into a 600MB 720p€30fps clip -ofc you have a slight quality loss.

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

(originaly MSI Afterburner is a GPU monitoring/overclocking tool - but i use it just to cap video ). As for xsplit - would their free version be good enough for simple recording stuff?

[Ziff]

The advantage of Xsplit is that you can create different "screens" that you can fade in/out live e.g. you can display your initial intro screen then fade down into your gameplay part live. The main advantage there is the reduced amount of editing to be done afterwards so you can just use Windows Movie Maker rather than going for a more complex program like Sony Vegas.

I'm going to sound like a Xsplit employee here, but another advantage is that you can click one button and livestream your video to the net via Twitch.tv or similar. An interesting Twitch.tv feature is the ability to archive your past streams and automatically upload them to youtube.

I'm sorry, I tend to waffle when I get going on this geeky recording stuff. I've been a youtuber for a couple of years and its a damn lonely hobby!

You know, I spent a lot of time asking people about their recording software when I was looking for a replacement for Fraps and never once did anyone mention Xsplit. Where were you when I needed you! Lol. Ok, now I have to go investigate this piece of software. Thanks for the info.