Recommended Video Capture Software?

[Kittra]

What kind of PC hardware are you using?

Different recording programs work better with the type of system you have.


Personally, I've found FRAPs to deliver the best quality, but the video needs to be compressed by an encoder later to bring the size down and then you run into a bunch of technical things like how to set up an x264 codec, XVID, etc. for the best quality after compression. There's also the fact that FRAPs has not had an update in a very long time... so as Windows updates itself little errors can happen with the program, such as a video stutter every 10 seconds which has caused me to drop FRAPs completely in recent years.


Probably the most customizable program (and most importantly, one that receives regular updates) is DxTory. However, DxTory becomes a bit more technical if you want to use an encoder to compress while recording the video.

Compressing a video while recording at the same time also puts a lot of stress on your system, so if it's not up to the challenge, the video can come out a bit rough unless you tune the settings for what your system can handle, which usually means reducing the quality or increasing the video file size.