Movie Making, in Triscreen?

[Butch_N]

Hi all

Is it possible to capture triscreen ingame footage to make movies?
If so, what programs are needed to do this, please?

Thanks :)

[Truckchase!]

I have no personal experience doing so, but I can't think of a reason FRAPS *shouldn't* work....

I'm sure someone else on this forum will know first hand....

[GeneralAdmission]

Fraps does work. Also, check my sig for an alternative (and free) method based on VirtualDub. First time read/setup may seem daunting, but after that it's relatively easy and very flexible in terms of capability.

[Butch_N]

Thank you guys and especially for the VirtualDub tip GA.

[Abram]

Just the other day i used Virtualdub to compress a 2890x600 Fraps record using the codecs provided by ffdshow, which Virtualdub found in it's own.

Scope out doom9.org and videohelp.com for every guide adn program you coud every need. Videohelp.com has TONS of guides on video editing/converting/etc..

[Butch_N]

Thank you Abram, I have bookmarked them :)

[Palehorse1]

You mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alWbSd0pB4o

Made in FRAPS 2.8.X-ish. The video looks terrible due to the card - nVidia 8600 series - as well as the youtube compression, and of course my lack of knowledge when it comes to video editing. Use a nVidia 285 series card now and it looks heaps better.

[Butch_N]

You mean like this?

Yes, just like that ;)

[Bumpinthenight]

I've done a fair bit of this with Fraps and can say it definitely works...if you have a fast enough storage setup to write those horrendously huge raw files as quickly as it needs, ie I found that even using a pair of regular 7200RPM drives in raid 0 it couldn't write the files fast enough when capping 3840x1024 at a reasonable 30fps. The solutions would be not to record at full resolution or as I did, go get two more drives and run a 4x raid 0. :P

As an example I just capped some random full screen winamp visualizer and to record 3840x1024@30fps it ate drive space at a rate of 172.8MB per second...definitely need more then a standard single HDD to handle that sort of bandwidth.

[thales100]

I found that even using a pair of regular 7200RPM drives in raid 0 it couldn't write the files fast enough when capping 3840x1024 at a reasonable 30fps. The solutions would be not to record at full resolution or as I did, go get two more drives and run a 4x raid 0. :P

Well you can set FRAPS to record in a secondary HD (not the disk where the game and the OS are installed in example), i have used this with great results so far, at 5040x1050 full resolution 30 FPS.

[Bumpinthenight]

Well you can set FRAPS to record in a secondary HD (not the disk where the game and the OS are installed in example), i have used this with great results so far, at 5040x1050 full resolution 30 FPS.

Absolutely, but what I'm saying is unless that storage device can write at the rates that fraps records at you won't get the actual 30fps, its okay for shorter clips where it can just keep most of it in spare ram until you're done but for prolonged like 30 second + captures you need a disk setup that can write that fast, even 10Krpm disks can't get much beyond 100MBps alone, you need some sort of raid or a high end SSD to pull it off (at full resolution).