Screen capture software, which one is best
quad damage
Screen capture software.
I have a little job to do and I want to do multiple screen captures and wondered what the best free software is?
I have a little job to do and I want to do multiple screen captures and wondered what the best free software is?
Replies
http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/
For live streaming: Open Broadcasting Software ("OBS") also free
https://obsproject.com/
That should just about cover it. OBS can do both too if you don't want to use another program.
It also saves copies of your streams (maybe a setting?) in a VERY high quality, full res, awesomely compressed video. It is very good software. Requires some setup, but is very good.
- [ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMMW0HkOaQU[/ame]
My version
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html
Fraps: works well, but after a while it wouldn't record files anymore, no errors or anything, would just create a file that was deleted as soon as I stopped recording. Very frustrating.
Bandicam: works well generally but gave me issues with UI flickering (didn't show up in recorded video but made it pretty much impossible to make video tutorials).
Currently using ZD Soft Screen recorder, which works quite well. With gpu recording the performance hit is minimal (as it is with the above two as well).
I haven't used OBS myself, but I was comparing some of the output (that Lee Devonald sent me) and the compression was a lot worse than what you can get our of ZD soft or bandicam where you have a lot more control over the compression quality. How important this is really depends on your needs tho. Not sure if there are some hidden quality settings somewhere but we didn't find them when we were messing with it. Compression with OBS is fine for mostly static stuff, but anything with a lot of motion gets muddy.
In general if you're doing anything heavy I would recommend a very fast GPU. Previously I was trying to do video recording with Marmoset Toolbag 2 (which is entirely GPU based) on a 560 Ti and it really wasn't fast enough to handle rendering and gpu recording, and CPU recording tends to be really slow (even on my quadcore i7 4770). Now I'm using a 770 which I quite like, though a 780 would be even better.
were you on a notebook?
On a side note, if anyone is interested : I recently experimented with an Elgato HD capture card, in the hope of offloading most of the encoding calculations away from the computer. The device is absolutely perfect for console footage capture at 720p/1080p, and works quite well for PC game recording too.
I tried it two different setups :
1 - controlling the capture card with a laptop receiving footage from the proper workstation ; and
2 - controlling the capture card with the workstation on which the work was actually being done.
Both worked, but I found myself limited by the resolution settings and the wiring. The Elgato card is HDMI in and HDMI out, which can be annoying for PC users (for instance, recording footage from a Cintiq would require some extra adapters, and I doubt that the card would support 1600x1200 anyway). And even on a screen using HDMI wiring I got some scaling and resolution issues - probably because of the screen in question not running at a native TV-friendly resolution.
TLDR : the device didn't really fit my needs, but it might fit yours depending on your gear. Being able to compress the video in realtime without having to worry about anything is a huge plus ! The software also has a indicator showing how much disk space is being used, which is very good too.
Unfortunately, Shadowplay requires both a (relatively recent) Nvidia GPU and a (relitively recent) Nvidia CPU, neither of which i have, so i can't use that.
Question - Can Camtasia take multiple screen captures?
My results with MSI Afterburn, it is perfect (click C to capture and it dumps as many images on the hard drive as you want) but there is quite a lot of Jpeg artifacting so make sure you set it to BMP or PNG format.
Here are the results for anyone interested, go HD or go home
Debut Professional has a lot of features though, you can record multiple screens at the same time etc.
Na, pc (EVGA 770 GTX 4GB, i7 4770, 16GB ram, Win 7 Pro 64), I see the little option but its greyed out, I can't enable it. Does it not like multi-monitor setups or something?
I tried a month or two ago and no luck, but I'll try again.
I have 2 monitors myself, but it only records 1 of them.
Hope you get it working
Aha, looks like that was it, thanks. Ok, how do I set it to capture from my secondary screen?