How to take video of matches?

[Bashere]

title says it all

[Mihilist]

http://www.fraps.com/ is probably the most popular.

[Digglez]

Unless you have a beefy ass rig, running the game + fraps will give you a LARGE frame rate reduction.  One way to minimize this slow down is have fraps record/save to a NON booting harddrive.  I havent tried my external USB harddrive yet, but saving to your boot drive will kill fps.

[Huey Newton]

in-game to take a video

hold down alt and press X
the timer should be on top left near fps (if on)
hold down alt again and press x again to turn off recording
should save to default video folder on ur computer

[Snoozer]

in-game to take a video

hold down alt and press X
the timer should be on top left near fps (if on)
hold down alt again and press x again to turn off recording
should save to default video folder on ur computer

^something is wrong here.......just saying

[PikeDan]

I stream using Livestream typically. It works well enough and the stream saves on my livestream account, it works pretty well.

[Joxer]

http://www.fraps.com/ is probably the most popular.

Yeah fraps rocks. Well worth buying.

[Mihilist]

Unless you have a beefy ass rig, running the game + fraps will give you a LARGE frame rate reduction.  One way to minimize this slow down is have fraps record/save to a NON booting harddrive.  I havent tried my external USB harddrive yet, but saving to your boot drive will kill fps.

Really don't need that much of a system to record this game (there's almost no compression in the FRAPS video file which is why they're so freaking huge).  I run a Q6600 stock with an 8800GT and 3.5gB of ram on WinXP.  Most of the system impact from FRAPS will come from writing to your HD.  You can seriously mitigate the impact of this by saving to a secondary drive (e.g. drive the game is not installed on).  I can record at a solid 30FPS at 720p in 100+ person games using a 7200rpm HD.  If you have the luxury to record to a solid state drive or ram drive you could even more dramatically reduce the impact it creates. 

I'd guess going to USB would be really slow unless it's a 3.0 interface.  Most you're going to write will be around 22-25mB/s and if you have SATA drives those are going to be significantly faster.  If you could convert the drive to eSATA you'd be a lot better off.

[Herald_Hardrata]

My laptop has a built in webcam above the screen. I just hold up a medium sized mirror and set the webcam to record while I play. Works pretty well.

[Slamz]

FRAPS.

And then some sort of video editing software.  I use Adobe Premier Elements, which is pretty full featured and helps a lot with removing or changing the volume of the audio, adding in music, changing the speed of the video (speed up the boring parts or slow-mo the good stuff), etc.  I'm sure there are free video editors out there that are decent enough.  The Windows one is basic, but will get the job done.

[Digglez]

Really don't need that much of a system to record this game (there's almost no compression in the FRAPS video file which is why they're so freaking huge).  I run a Q6600 stock with an 8800GT and 3.5gB of ram on WinXP.  Most of the system impact from FRAPS will come from writing to your HD.  You can seriously mitigate the impact of this by saving to a secondary drive (e.g. drive the game is not installed on).  I can record at a solid 30FPS at 720p in 100+ person games using a 7200rpm HD.  If you have the luxury to record to a solid state drive or ram drive you could even more dramatically reduce the impact it creates. 

I'd guess going to USB would be really slow unless it's a 3.0 interface.  Most you're going to write will be around 22-25mB/s and if you have SATA drives those are going to be significantly faster.  If you could convert the drive to eSATA you'd be a lot better off.

thanks captain redundancy.  if the guy doesnt about video capture I'm fairly sure he isnt going to have a 2nd internal HD or even know what external Sata means.

[Joxer]

FRAPS.

And then some sort of video editing software.  I use Adobe Premier Elements, which is pretty full featured and helps a lot with removing or changing the volume of the audio, adding in music, changing the speed of the video (speed up the boring parts or slow-mo the good stuff), etc.  I'm sure there are free video editors out there that are decent enough.  The Windows one is basic, but will get the job done.

I'd recommend Sony vegas. Very easy to learn and easy to use. However all the advanced gizmos are also available. Taste thing I think.

[Mihilist]

thanks captain redundancy.  if the guy doesnt about video capture I'm fairly sure he isnt going to have a 2nd internal HD or even know what external Sata means.

Wasn't for him, it was for some guy that thought recording to a USB drive would be a viable alternative.

Just because someone doesn't know about a piece of software doesn't mean they're ignorant to hardware.