[starbug]

i am exprimenting in movie making at the moment, but i have encountered problems in capturing the movie clips i want, what i am trying to do is capture segements of Gundam wing Endless waltz battles and make a small music vid out of them. The program i am using is Fraps 2.7.2 with the sound disabled, but everytime i try and record the playback is very slow and stutters, according to the help file it recommends that i change the FPS and resolutions, i have tried every screen resolution with every setting of FPS and the play back is still very slow and stuttery(if thats even a word) any clues or can anyone recomend any other software? This is my sys spec:

Athlon 64 3200+
WinXp Pro service pack 2
ATi Radeon 256 GTO X800 driver 5.13
512 DDr
onboard Realtek AC97 Audio
PowerDVD 6 thats the movieplayer i use, if that has anything to do with it.

[Goober5000]

Try GameCam.  Much smoother in my experience.

[starbug]

thanks i'll give it a try!

Edit, Goober do you know how to get Gamecam working with PowerDVD or does it just work with games?

[achtung]

It's normal for the vids to stutter before they are compressed, try compressing one and see if it stutters.  They stutter because the files are the raw .avi's and the fact that the files average about 700mb-2gigs and most players have a hard time dealing with that.

[starbug]

i tried compressing the file and when i replay it its still got the same stutters as i was recording it.

[Nix]

The stuttering is probably caused in this case by the recording software lagging behind at the start of the recording, once the system balances everything out, things *should* run smoothly.  Try starting recording way before you actually want to start recording, then edit out the starting stutters.  If it stutters throughout the whole process, then you'd want to try something else for video-capturing that isn't as system-intensive.

[Bobboau]

are you trying to capture frome a file you already have?