Screen Recording Software

[Pope_Gregory_IX]

Hi,

I'd like to make a couple of small videos while playing KSP. I'm fairly used to the editing part (from video files created by my camcorder), but really know nothing about screen recording software. I'm using the Steam version on Windows 8.1.

Can anyone recommend software for this? It really is purely as a hobby project for a couple of really short clips, so cheap / freeware preferable. I do need to record sound as well,but really need nothing fancy and prefer something which doesn't hog resources too much! I don't really mind the recording format as I already have conversion tools.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Adam

[Lanzecki]

Fraps if the obvious program that everyone will mention.

I prefer playclaw. Less lag and less post-processing.

[Pope_Gregory_IX]

Thanks for the quick response. I'll give them a try.

Adam

[Kerbart]

I use camtasia. Of course, I also have to do screenrecordings for my job, so that makes it easier; Camtasia is not exactly free. But it's very, very good with lots of options like mouse-click effects (visual and audible) and the video editing software that comes with it is top notch.

[7499275]

Personally I use fraps, but when I have a game that is too laggy recording with fraps I go to hypercam.

[Zorrm]

I use XSplit for my recording and broadcasting needs.

[Richy teh space man]

I recommend Bandicam, although it's not free.

[toomuchbrew]

Fraps is what I use. High resolution, but it comes at a price. The files are HUGE. Bandicam is excellent too. Both are relatively inexpensive. I prefer Fraps though.

[TNM]

I like fraps for its quality recording. You have to factor in some kind of secondary cost though, either alot of space or encoding-time (for storage purpose with quality loss).

[toomuchbrew]

I have a 1tb hdd and I fill it regularly and have to dump my raw footage one I know I am done with it. It just makes me have to edit more frequently. Which is good in my case. Gives me a push. I edit while Mechjeb puts me in space.

[SolarLiner]

Fraps is one of the best, little-to-no performance drop, high quality and resolution files.

Open Broadcaster Software, although for live streaming purposes, does quite a good job for recording the screen. But its passive method can introcude lags in the output file ... You need to have a good computer if you want to run it nicely.

And as its name suggests, it is free !

[briansun1]

I use MSI afterburner it's free and monitors your computer at the same time

I really would suggest anything other than FRAPS because has a high resource requirement compared to some others also it's not free.

[FellipeC]

I use MSI Afterburner too. Works very well.

Looks Nvidia now have something free for this with their GForce Experience software, but only works for GPUs not so old like mine.

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

I use bandicam, the trial version auto-cuts out every ten minutes, so be careful

[Spyritdragon]

Fraps is what I use. High resolution, but it comes at a price. The files are HUGE. Bandicam is excellent too. Both are relatively inexpensive. I prefer Fraps though.

True, but if you put your files into any video editor you can easily compress them 50x while still maintaining at least 480p.

I generally use Fraps too. I've trialled camtasia, but it seems to take alot of RAM for me, lagging much more quickly than Fraps does. Fraps does come with huge filesizes, going for a gigabyte every few minutes, which you'll have to compress later.

[toomuchbrew]

Yep. I use power director. If I have multipart vids or large ones, I will edit them together while I wait to do all my final editing. Sometimes, I don't get top producing videos for a month and end up with a ton of raw footage

[briansun1]

you can also use handbrake to compress your files without much of a quality loss

[Nero Prime]

I use DXTory, to record and OBS to stream.