Audio Video Capture - Gameplay + Mic Chat

[illusive Fox]

I've been struggling with trying to capture gameplay footage along with sound and the results have been miserable. I would ask any of you who have experience and/or good knowledge to help me chose a decent program to capture gameplay video, audio and if it were possible voice chat from skype or something similar.

 

[Griffolion]

http://www.fraps.com/

You have to pay, but it's the best program for what you want to do. It will take live audio from both incoming (what you hear from your speakers/headphones) and outgoing (your mic) sources. It also takes video too, obviously. The support is also excellent.

 

[TankTop]

I second Fraps.

A few things to note are that it is somewhat resource intensive. I experience about 2-5% drop in frame-rate when running it, but generally that's not an issue. Additionally, because it doesn't compress the video/audio, your final files end up being massive (in the order of around 4 gigabytes for ~5 minutes), so make sure you have space.

A major factor with the recording aspect is that every few minutes, when the recorded video has reached a filesize of just under 4 gigabytes (is this fixed? Someone let me know if it is possible to adjust), the entire game will freeze up momentarily for around 3 seconds as it creates a new file for the next segment of video.

You will also need to stitch them all together at the end of it. If you have Windows, I'd recommend just using Windows Movie Maker if you don't need anything fancy. Saving it in a new, compressed format will also lower the filesize dramatically (say from 100 gigabytes to 700 megabytes)