Desktop Screen Recorder

[Site Administrator]

There's one that I've heard of called (I think) 'Fraps' or possibly 'Frapps'.

[wolfy67]

I've been looking for a good program to record what I'm doing on the computer and upload to YouTube or somewhere like that. Anyone have a suggestion?

I want to use it while I'm playing a game so I can record a video tutorial. Also, this stuff is even better evidence than a screenshot because video is much harder to fake.

Thanks in advance.

[Delreich]

Fraps doesn't save completely uncompressed video, IIRC, as that would take too much HDD bandwidth.
Also, Fraps is only for DirectX and OpenGL, AFAIK, so not really what's asked for here.

Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screencasting_software

Edit: or maybe Fraps would do, if it's just in-game recording that's needed. Aaanyways, more options there on WP.
You won't be able to record Elements with Fraps though.

[Uncle Jellyfish]

It is Fraps. A lot of people use it on MMO's to record boss fights. Be warned, though, it'll slow you down greatly if you don't have a good computer, and the video it makes is completely uncompressed, so it'll be a HUGE file. After you're done recording, you can open the video in an editing program and compress it, then add whatever you want to it and save it, then add it to YouTube. =D

[wckz]

It is Fraps. A lot of people use it on MMO's to record boss fights. Be warned, though, it'll slow you down greatly if you don't have a good computer, and the video it makes is completely uncompressed, so it'll be a HUGE file. After you're done recording, you can open the video in an editing program and compress it, then add whatever you want to it and save it, then add it to YouTube. =D

Oh yea, now I remember why I used it
Huge boss fights >.>
I mean really huge

[wckz]

There's one that I've heard of called (I think) 'Fraps' or possibly 'Frapps'.

I think it was Fraps.

[Scaredgirl]

I made a tutorial for screen recording using CamStudio. Check it out here: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,3591.0.html

[Demagog]

Hypercam 2 is really easy to use and works with no problems.

[ScytherLoL]

Thanks this was really helpful I was getting stuck with all the options

Scyther