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Title: Best software for recording desktop?
Post by: BadMouth on August 03, 2013, 04:01:17 pm
Finally biting the bullet and switching my driving cab over to Win7.
While I'm reinstalling all the emulators on a fresh windows install,
I thought I'd record the process and hopefully find time to organize it into a series of video tutorials someday.

Anyone have a recommended software for doing this, free or otherwise?
Title: Re: Best software for recording desktop?
Post by: JDFan on August 03, 2013, 05:57:33 pm
Camtasia Studios does a pretty good job -- the offer a 30 day trial for free that might be long enough for you to make these with ! ( http://www.techsmith.com/download/camtasia/ (http://www.techsmith.com/download/camtasia/) )
Title: Re: Best software for recording desktop?
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 03, 2013, 07:25:49 pm
I've been recently playing with bandicam to record videos of MKKE.  I didn't play with desktop recording extensively, but if it can record video of a game that takes up 100% resources it should work fine. 
Title: Re: Best software for recording desktop?
Post by: nullPointer on August 05, 2013, 11:54:10 am
I figured I'd add Fraps to this list as well.  You can capture short (watermarked) video clips with the free version, or you can spring for the paid version for a chunk of change ($37 USD).  All things considered, it's a pretty good piece of software and probably worth the purchase if you plan on making fairly frequent recordings.
Title: Re: Best software for recording desktop?
Post by: Louis Tully on August 05, 2013, 12:12:57 pm
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Title: Re: Best software for recording desktop?
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 05, 2013, 02:14:30 pm
I'm going to have to say that bandicam is better than fraps.  I tried them both and with bandicam I got a smooth framerate while capturing the vids at full resolution.  Fraps slowed the game to a crawl. 

Now for recording the desktop I doubt this would make much difference, but I thought I would mention it. 

You'll also note my problem over in the everything else forum...it turns out that was on youtube's end, so disregard it. 
Title: Re: Best software for recording desktop?
Post by: bmanbdaman on August 14, 2013, 06:10:58 pm
Using MSI Afterburner Predator to record video on WIN7 with HIS7790 card. Free. Makes compressed videos. Can scale to many sizes. Did I mention it was free?