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Way to record gameplay smoothly?

Posted: October 12th, 2004, 10:15 am
by salamando
Hello,
Anyone have any suggestions for a way to record screen avi's from Final Fantasy XI? Most of the software I've tried sucks because they are such resource hogs to record on top of an already resource intense game. I want something that will record very smoothly. I've done this in Quake3 but luckily they had a /record function that you could play the demo back and export it as jpg screenshots and junk later.

My only thought of a solution so far was S-Video out the video card, record it on a VCR or something, then import it back with a video capture card. I guess I could do that, but I would certainly lose some quality going to VHS. Anyone have any other suggestions on how to get digital quality smooth AVI capture?

Thanks,
-sal

Posted: October 12th, 2004, 3:16 pm
by wyvernx
Admin has a XUMovieMaker plugin that I have played aound with. You can record movies. I am playing with different codecs to see which ones make the best movies. I'll see if I can get him to release it.

Re: Way to record gameplay smoothly?

Posted: October 12th, 2004, 3:25 pm
by salamando
Thanks, I'd appreciate it. I know it's tough getting anything to record smoothly with the system requirements for this game, hehe.

Re: Way to record gameplay smoothly?

Posted: October 20th, 2004, 8:45 pm
by crazypluto
wondering any update? XD

Posted: October 21st, 2004, 7:09 am
by Admin
Hi, yes I do have a Movie Maker plugin. I am trying to finish it up and release it.

It is about 90% done.

Re: Way to record gameplay smoothly?

Posted: October 30th, 2004, 10:05 am
by crazypluto
any new updates? XD cant wait starts giggling like a little school girl XD

Re: Way to record gameplay smoothly?

Posted: October 31st, 2004, 5:59 pm
by crazypluto
Admin XD tell me whats up cant wait to record XD

Posted: October 31st, 2004, 11:58 pm
by Admin
Sorry, I forgot all about getting this together, making a note of it.

Re: Way to record gameplay smoothly?

Posted: November 1st, 2004, 12:13 pm
by salamando
Thanks. I'm not really the type of person to keep posting over and over again to annoy, so uhm, please don't forget?

Re: Way to record gameplay smoothly?

Posted: November 6th, 2004, 6:48 am
by crazypluto
still waiting :D cant wait to record junk :P

Re: Way to record gameplay smoothly?

Posted: November 12th, 2004, 4:30 am
by yunabeco
Yeah, this sounds cool :D I hope it'll be better than that Fraps-!@#$%^&* :roll: Anyway good luck :P

Posted: November 12th, 2004, 8:38 am
by salamando
Yeah fraps blows, which is why I was looking for a replacement.

Re: Way to record gameplay smoothly?

Posted: November 12th, 2004, 1:45 pm
by asl18fs
Most likelly XUnleashed won't work better than it does in Fraps, capturing a video of your gameplay is HEAVY AS HELL. Most likelly your computer is nowhere even close to as good as it needs to be to fulfil your own requirements.

Hint, good gameplay videos are either
a) recorded by a second computer
or
b) recorded from a replay which can pause when needed for the video encoder to catch up

Re: Way to record gameplay smoothly?

Posted: November 12th, 2004, 3:09 pm
by yunabeco
how can we record gameplay from second computer? got one and they are in LAN

Re: Way to record gameplay smoothly?

Posted: November 12th, 2004, 5:26 pm
by asl18fs
You need special hardware, like for example a tv out and a tv in card or something like that.