How to capture video from UDK?

Zipfinator

So I'm almost done with my forest scene and I set up a video flythrough in UDK. I have no idea how to capture the flythrough on video though. Can anyone share the process or software they use to capture their flythroughs from UDK? I just want a 720p video that I can upload to Youtube or open off of my external hard drive.

Thanks.

EDIT: Just found a video where Lamont goes through his process. Downloading it now. Would still like to gather other suggestions though.

megalmn2000

CamStudio is my suggestion.
It's free and does the job like I want.
You can download it here : http://camstudio.org/
For the codec, I like to use Xvid : http://www.xvid.org/

darthwilson

Using Fraps (latest version is most stable)

When running UDK make sure you don't play it in editor mode.. You can run the editor and click build - play on PC...

Make sure you set your 1280*720 resolution using the UDK console as well...

Hope this helps

Zipfinator

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried Cam Studio for a bit but I didn't like how it worked or the results I was getting. I think I'll try Lamaont's method and if that's not working out then I'll probably use Fraps or something. I'll post back here if I have any problems or questions.

sprunghunt

better than fraps:

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/CapturingCinematicsAndGameplay.html

Zipfinator

sprunghunt wrote: »

better than fraps:

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/CapturingCinematicsAndGameplay.html

Ah, thanks a lot. That's what the video Lamont did that I downloaded described but it'll be easier to do it by going through this probably.

Zipfinator

Could anyone show me a basic kismet setup of how to get the camera sequence to start when I load the map and have it in cinematic mode with no HUD? I'm looking at how they did it for the Foliage map but it seems like more than I need and I'm not sure where to plug everything into.

cholden

This will do that

Zipfinator

Thanks Cholden, I'll give that a try in a bit.

Zipfinator

Now I'm having another slight issue. I'm having some troubles opening the map in game and having it start to render the frames out. I have FrontEnd open using the Profile DM-Deck with my map set to launch with these settings.

UDK.exe DM-JapaneseMapleMap -BENCHMARK -MAXQUALITYMODE -NOTEXTURESTREAMING -DUMPMOVIE -FPS=30 -ResX=1280 -ResY=720

When it launches the game it just stays on the menu though and records frames of the menu. Anyone have any idea why that would happen or am I loading the map through Frontend the wrong way?

EDIT: Found a way to launch it with the commands through the editor but it crashes before it loads the map. Pretty sure this is the right way to do it though, just something is causing it to crash.

daphne

You can use some screen recorder to help you record video, it also can help you save the video to avi format. With it, you can capture video to avi easily.