Catalog of Let's Play's/Gameplay

This thread is to organize everyone on NBR that has a Youtube page, or a live stream page that they would like to spread to the rest of the community. As of now we will make the list just in order as they receive them. I might consider the idea of organizing by game depending on circumstances. As of now just pm with the link to your page and I will update the list as soon as I can.

Ghold: Ghold125's Channel - YouTube
ViciousXUSMC: ViciousXUSMC's Channel - YouTube
Pluberus: GamerLiberis's Channel - YouTube
AznImports602: falcon64z8's Channel - YouTube

 

Me

Channel: ViciousXUSMC's Channel - YouTube

LP's

Finished
A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda
Duke Nukem Forever
Plants v.s. Zombies


Current
Borderlands 4 Player Co-Op
Bastion
Secret of Mana 2
Random Mugen Battles

Dropped
Sanctum


Future
Chrono Trigger
Deus EX Human Revolution
Starcraft 2 SC1 Campaign
Guild Wars 2

I am not the best commentator/caster in the world but getting much better as I go over time. The one thing I know I do best is quality of the videos in terms of video quality and audio quality.

I have a pretty brutal all kill method of capturing and encoding my videos and always present everything in 1080P w/ maxed out settings and retaining all the quality of the original for upload. If the game does not have 1080p native then it goes up as 720P and I add custom side bars if its 4:3 to preserve YouTubes 16:9 aspect ratio requirement.

The LP thing is new for me, before that I was just doing reviews for products, some gameplay & showcase videos, and tutorials so I have more videos than those posted in my archives and will still be doing other videos here and there including a Media Editor @ WideScreenGamingForum, will try to get 1 multi-monitor surround video out every 2 weeks or atleast once a month and have it uploaded under the WSGF account.

 

what software do you use to record your 1080p videos?

FRAPS?

 

ViciousXUSMC uses Fraps.

 

Frap's is probably the best program to use, as most desktop recorders have large amounts of lag and have sub par quality (at least the one's I have tried)

 

Recording with FRAPS, for me at least, takes up way to much space for only a few minutes with it's uncompressed video files, but quality is good. I'm the only one struggling with this?

 

Fraps does take up a lot of space while recording, but I have found it helpful to record at half size (playing at 1920x1080 resolution). At this setting with video set to 50 fps about 100 minutes of gameplay takes up 73.1 GB's. I would record at 30 fps except them playing games gets capped at 30 fps which is annoying.

 

Me! (Since I recently built a PC)
GamerLiberis's Channel - YouTube

I mostly have game music videos on there, though I have a little commentary. Here's some: =\
Guild Wars Factions Playthrough // Part 1 // Commentary - YouTube
Global Agenda Gameplay // Commentary - YouTube

Atm, MSI Afterburner doesn't let you record your mic live, so I have to post-commentate. Also, I highly recommend MSI Afterburner. Its 100% free, and they add features all the time. It is similar to PlayClaw in that it has a feature where you can record at one FPS and still play at max fps. Fraps forces you to play at a multiple of the FPS you are recording at - if you drop below that multiple for a second, you automatically drop to the next slowest multiple for the rest of the recording.

 

I use FRAPS & Camtasia (with a modified codec)

I encode in H264 & AAC

What you see on youtube is only half the quality of what I am uploading.

 

Baka wants Vicious to do Skyrim

 

Does it result in additional lag if you use an external (USB 3.0 or eSATA) drive as the destination for the video file?

 

Both eSATA and USB 3.0 got plenty of speed to keep up.

 

Pluberus, I tried using the MSI Afterburner screen cap portion, but didn't really prefer it. Notice a larger drop in performance over Fraps, and no audio was captured.

 

I have to record at 1280x720 due to the enormous file size. T_T If I can scrounge up the cash, I might spring for another hard drive just for recordings. Then I could record/render at a much better quality than I do now. Also, I use the XVID codec. =\

EDIT:
@Ghold - Are you recording compressed, or uncompressed? Also, did you check "Enable Audio Capture" and "Downmix multichannel audio to stereo"?

 

You can get the same quality I do with 1280x720 just not the same res.

XVID is good for 2000 when we had low power computers that would not easily handle good H264 playback, but its old now and no longer the standard and definitely wont win any comparison of quality.

 

Where can you download the H264 codec?

EDIT:
Nvm. T_T

 

by far best solution to reduce "lag" while recording is recording to different drive. For those who were asking -)

 

Pluberus, not really sure what my settings were. Ill mess around with it later and see what the results are.

 

Also, are you using the latest beta version? Or the official release version? I'm currently using the latest beta version.

 

Yeah I'll throw my hat in the ring....
frooglepete's Channel - YouTube

Mainly strategy, RPG and sim stuff, with the occasional foray into FPS and twitch gaming. Like Viscious, all my vids are HD, but I recently dropped 1080p just because the number of people actually watching at that rez is sooo tiny it made sense to me to render out to 720 and reduce the amount of time it takes to upload everything. However, again just like Viscious, I do record everything at 1080p.

The 'angle' of my channel is that of an older gamer (41) and pro journalist and author.

Viscious - still waiting for you to get back to me - we need to colab dude!!

 

I use WeGame...unlike Fraps, you're not locked into playing at the framerate of your recording. And file sizes aren't obscenely huge.

 

FRAPS has unlocked frame recording since like 8 releases ago.

Files are big because they are almost virtually loss less.

Once you encode them they are smaller, but if you lose quality out the game due to compression you will never get it back.

 

Must have missed your message or read it at a bad time where I had something else on my mind.

PM me the details.

 

Even "unlocked", FRAPS records at a multiple of your fps. If you record at 30, you will play at 60 or 90 (if your PC can handle it). However, if you drop below 60 at anytime, you will get locked to 30. That is why I prefer MSI Afterburner.

 

Yeah it does that to keep sync. Its not an overlay recording that can record at a different frame rate its directly recording from the buffer or what ever you call it. It's quite unique in how it does it and it has some very significant advantages/disadvantages.

I use camtasia sometimes to record snes videos now and it does not have to change frame rate and that is good because I do not need tripple buffering enabled so that fraps can "see" the game. But I have to play windowed for it to record the right resolution. With FRAPS I can play full screen but it still records the original resolution and not scaling it to the screen.

Thats one of the kind of benifits FRAPS has, its reading the original data not what you "see".

Another one is anamorphic AA as a post processing filter FRAPS will not record even if you see it. But an overlay capture program will.

 

Here is my youtube channel. I post random things and every now and then some gaming footage.

falcon64z8's Channel - YouTube

 

So if I want to record 1080p video and I'm playing a game where my frame rate normally varies between, say 30 - 50 fps, is it better not to use FRAPS?

Or will FRAPS record at 30 fps even if my actual frame rate is fluctuating below 60 fps?

I'm not familiar with FRAPS video recording, but when I work with 1080p video files for broadcast and BD authoring, usually the frame rate is either 60 Hz or 23.98.

 

I record @ 30fps with fraps.

Movies are 23.98, "ideal" game frame rates are 60fps
So 30fps is a nice middle ground that gives great looking video, average file sizes, and good game performance.

If its an extremely fast paced game like Unreal Tournament and your playing competitively the 30fps may feel like a problem, but for normal games or normal users it wont be a problem.

 

I record at 45 fps so I have some room for decent slowmo for editing.

Also, I know I'm (really) late, but Doom 3 is freaking epic. This game scares the crap out of me! I'm such a wimp! rofl

For anyone interested, here is the beginning of my Doom 3 experience:
Part 1 - Doom 3 Noob // Part 1 // Beginnings - YouTube
Part 2 - Doom 3 Noob // Part 2 // The Scares Begin - YouTube

Part 2 is where the good stuffs starts. I mostly run around lost in part 1.