Good recordings software/specs needed?

ArvickHero

10387 Posts

February 06 2010 19:03 GMT

I was watching OGN right now on ferron and right now they are going down a "best of" list, showing some old ZvZ from the Olympus OSL. I realized that many of these older games aren't uploaded onto a video site/recorded on Youtube, so I was thinking it would be a good idea to record some of these and help contribute.

I downloaded some software called Camstudio, and I gave it a test. The result? Bad quality, and really laggy >< so I was wondering if there was any better software for this kind of thing, and what the specific hardware requirements would be to do this kind of thing (my computer is kind of crappy ;;;; )

Nub4ever

Canada1981 Posts

February 06 2010 19:13 GMT

Well camtasia's really good but it ain't free =/ also camtasia isn't TOO demanding

ghermination

United States2851 Posts

February 06 2010 19:17 GMT

To do any video transcoding/editing (especially live!) you are going to need at least a Dual Core processor. Almost all of them released really since the core lineup came out will be able to handle this task, especially if overclocked. Processors that would definitely be up to the task are like the Phenom II 550 BE, or E7400. If you want to do really high quality streaming, go with a quad core for assured fast speeds. Something like the i5 750, the Q2C 9550, or the Phenom II x4 955.

Also, your RAM will be really important. You can make it with DDR2-800, but that should be the lowest speed you can be at for perfect quality. It would be better to go DDR3-1333 or 1600, but budget constraints can be annoying.

Video cards also aid in video transcoding, however they don't need a huge amount of power to do this, so something like a 4670 or maybe 5750 would work well.

Other than that, i think you can use Camtasia better, but i don't know. If you're going with like 360p quality, then really what i said won't matter. Any fairly modern processor (like i said, dualcore) should be able to handle it.

Tom Phoenix

1114 Posts

February 06 2010 19:20 GMT

CamStudio is a good program, but you need a better decoder then the standard Microsoft Video 1. x264 is a preety good choice, although it is very CPU demanding. Lagarith is less CPU demanding, but it hogs a lot of hard drive space. And many people recommend Xvid, although I personally had nothing but trouble with it.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

February 06 2010 19:39 GMT

you can defintely get an older version of camtasia studio with crack. Someone hook this guy up!

meeple

Canada10211 Posts

February 06 2010 20:21 GMT

On February 07 2010 04:39 CharlieMurphy wrote:
you can defintely get an older version of camtasia studio with crack. Someone hook this guy up!

Yeah can't you just torrent this?

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