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Movie capture

Jan 07, 2005 macguy link
Ok first off I know this is a little extrem, but it'd be great! I want to be able to do more then take screenshots(although that is an awesome feature). Especialy if they included the sound, imagen hearing the missles and laser file flying past during a movie of vendetta. It would be like red vs blue except in vendetta. So devs, do you EVER think this will be possible?
Jan 07, 2005 johnhawl218 link
they probably will not make it part of the game simply because you can by third party software that can do movie capture for you. Unfortunately I an uninformed as to the name of the software but I've seen it used before with other MMO's and it works great. This was for a mac, but I'm sure there are PC equivilents out there. Perhaps someone else here might know the name.
Jan 10, 2005 mgl_mouser link
Maybe just record flight path so you can review after and see why you got killed. That would be a good learning aid.
Jan 10, 2005 Furious link
Apparently the program you are looking for is FRAPS.

http://www.fraps.com

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Jan 10, 2005 CrippledPidgeon link
I don't know what you're on, but Snapz Pro X 2.0.1 is great, although you do have to pay for it. It's for Mac OS X, btw.
Jan 10, 2005 Beolach link
Snapz Pro X for Macs, Fraps for Windows. AFAIK, there's nothing for Linux, if anyone does know of one, I'd be very interested.
Jan 10, 2005 roguelazer link
I still say it would work to plug in a PVR to a S-Video out port and record that way. Plus, you wouldn't lose fps.
Jan 10, 2005 Tyrdium link
Yeah, but the capture quality would be horrible.

Anywho, it'd be nice to see some sort of packet-capture implementation or something for recording. It'd spit out a nice, small file, that could easily be played back in Vendetta. IIRC, Starcraft has something akin to this for recording games. Oh, and the FPS hit would be minimal, too.
Jan 10, 2005 mr_spuck link
For Linux theres this: http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/
Which works pretty well on a modern machine.

And I've heard some people use vnc or ImageMagick for screen capture. But I doubt you'd get any good fps that way.
Jan 10, 2005 Knight_Of_Order link
fps hit, my g5 won't have no fps hit with snapzpro, i've encoded a DVD and had no fps hit (it staid at around 148)