How to Record HD Gameplay On Your PC

[Mind Freak™]

Hi Guys

As Me , cvrle77 ,Froomple were discussing that WJ is loosing it's Quality Content and the charm for users to stick at the site . Here's me playing my part of the community.... I am playing mine ... You being a webmaster play yours.......

So The Topic is about Recording HD Gameplay on Your PC.

As you know people run many channels on Youtube. They Upload Videos --> Become a Youtube Partner and Earn Money by the ads placed on the Videos (Adsense)

So Now the current hit on Youtube is Gameplays / App Reviews / Mobile App Reviews etc etc

So Beginning You Would Need Video Recording Software like

• Fraps
• Camtasia Recorder

My Personal Favorite from the above would be Fraps cause Camtasia Recorder tends to give out no video output aka white/black screen after the video has been recorded so it kinda fucks up your hard work

The Next Thing You Would need is a Video Editing / Rendering Software like

• Camtasia Studio 8
• Sony Vegas Pro

Again my Personal favorite would be Camtasia Studio 8 cause i have been using it since a long time.

Now for the settings to use on Fraps to Record 720p HD Gameplay for Youtube Videos is

First Start up Fraps and then go to Movies like this and change the settings like below..

[SLIDE]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26836391/gameplay/1.png[/SLIDE]

Then Go to FPS to remove a Frame per sec watermark from the video click on Hide overlay like i have done below ..

[SLIDE]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26836391/gameplay/2.png[/SLIDE]

Then Make sure Fraps is running in your background and then start the game which you want to record.

Hit F9 (Hotkey assigned by me to start recording) after i finish the part of the game which i want to publish again press F9 and then the Video(Gameplay) would be saved at D://Gameplay (Path assigned by me to save the videos)

Note : The Long You play the Longer the File Size. 10 Min Gameplay would get you a filesize of 5.50GB

Now You Can't Just Upload 5.50GB Of Video on to Youtube or Can You ? :P

So Now thats where Rendering / Video Editing Comes in to Play.

Open Up Camtasia Studio 8 and then hit Import Media and Go to D://Gameplay to fetch the last recorded Video it would come up in the Clip Bin Section Like this

[SLIDE]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26836391/gameplay/3.png[/SLIDE]

Then Drag the video to the TimeLine below in Track 1 Like this

[SLIDE]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26836391/gameplay/4.png[/SLIDE]

Then as soon as u drag it in you would see a dialog box popup like this one select the one i have selected like here

[SLIDE]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26836391/gameplay/5.png[/SLIDE]

Then Go to Zoom-n-Pan Option Click on it and then Select "Scale Media to fit entire canvas" like that

[SLIDE]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26836391/gameplay/6.png[/SLIDE]

Then Adjust the borders of the video on like i have done below to render the video from edge to edge like this

[SLIDE]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26836391/gameplay/7.png[/SLIDE]

Then after that you can audio's , Transitions , Your Intro Video according to yourself on the timeline then go up top and his Produce and Share like this

[SLIDE]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26836391/gameplay/8.png[/SLIDE]

and then you will see a popup like this select HD MP4 (up to 720p) like this and hit next

[SLIDE]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26836391/gameplay/9.png[/SLIDE]

You will see another popup Asking for the name where to save it details fill in the details and hit Finish like this

[SLIDE]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26836391/gameplay/10.png[/SLIDE]

Thats it then it would render the video and make the video from a freaking 5.5GB to a considerable 200-300mb depending on the extra content you have added.

Just upload that video to youtube let it process and as soon as its done you will see your 720p video hitting the viewer's desktops.

The Output would be like one of my videos here

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz1eXYynsZ0[/ame]

Hope You Liked my small tutorial and well i have tried to contribute my bit to the community you should start doing it too.

Thanks and Regards .... Peace Out....!!!!

 

[msk19994]

Awesome mate, I always wondered how to do it

 

[Rick]

Sexy tutorial MF. Keep up the good work

 

[Yud!]

Imma use it tomorrow mate. Thanks (y)

 

[DoggY DoG]

Awesome share bud.

Really appreciate your hardwork in this. :D

 

[pawelscene]

good idea bro, and nice tut. just think in FRAPS sound settings unnecessary is recording Win 7 sound, isn't it?

 

[Mind Freak™]

Well check the settings and my video link i have provided i am not recording my mic + if you don't record win7 sound you won't be able to record the game audio

 

[cvrle77]

Good tut bro, not to mention, that this can be one of the ways to make high traffic channel on youtube, and whatnot.

 

[Mind Freak™]

Yea it can be used in many ways this is just a an example on how to use it :P

 

[Ifirst]

Awesome Video Bro.....Gr8 work and top notch explaination
Would definitely try it someday

 

[patayaH]

i knew already how, but that is a very great tutorial! Thanks for that

 

[PerMaFrOsT]

Nice howto

 

[Mind Freak™]

No Problem Hope the users liked it

 

[Oceanus-Al]

I think Fraps cost something, doesnt it?

 

[Mind Freak™]

Yes Fraps and Camstasia Studio both are paid programs

 

[jones]

Thanks for the guide Fraps costs 29.95 Euro http://www.fraps.com/buy.php an and http://www.techsmith.de/camtasia.html for 282,00 €

 

[Djlatino]

Fraps is a bitch and can rape your FPS unless your processor is a beast.

 

[Wadibahi]

how i record Gameplay of xbox 360?

 

[Oceanus-Al]

which processor is good enough for using fraps?

 

[Mind Freak™]

Wadibahi i will be making a thread for that also soon

My Current Config For recording the gameplay is

Processor : i7-3730
Ram : Gskill 8Gb Ram
SSD : 256GB
HDD : 2TB HDD
GPU : 2GB DDR5 Graphic Card
Monitor : 32" FullHD Monitor 1080p
PSU : 600watts for starters

And yea a good keyboard and mouse