Not exactly H&A's territory, so if this belongs in another sub forum, please move.

 

Anyway, I've started recording footage of Runescape, mostly PvM, using Camtasia Studio 7. My problem with it is it takes some twenty minutes to process and then save the footage after I've recorded it. Is there another program people recommend or a way to get around this problem? Thanks.

 

~yuusuke-u

I use hyper cam 3, because hypercam was suggested to me a while ago. The problem is the little banner it sticks in your vid unless you pay for it, which looks unprofessional, though I expect there is a way to just crop the video down a bit to eliminate it.

 

Something that would be good to know is how powerful your CPU is. What I would consider a major boon of hypercam is that it compresses video as it records, so that you don't end up with a totally enormous video file (though depending on the encoder, you can lose considerable image quality as well. Hypercam 2 had a lot of terrible encoders). However, this is extremly CPU intensive, and ideally you probably have at least a tri core to handle it (one for the game, one for the recorder, and one for everything else), though quad and six cores should do it without a hiccup.

 

If space isn;t an issue, get one like fraps which does raw video footage without any compression. Huge files, but low cpu load.

 

And neither fraps nor hypercam will do anything afterward. They both record and write in real time.

You should check Fraps too.