Video capturing from a game?

[Snake Man]

Video capturing from a game?

I've heard people use FRAPS to capture video footage from games. I have never captured anything before (except one time from video card into digi video camera) so I have no clear idea of whats required.

What is the best software for video capturing?

How much hard drive space do I need to capture lets say 5-10 minutes of footage?

Is there on the fly compression on the capture software, or is it raw AVI what they save?

What resolution is the captured footage (does it depend on the resolution of the game at moment of capture)?

Do the capture softwares cause huge slowdowns while capturing, do I need to fiddle with the game I'm capturing (like slow it down)?

Anything else a total video capture newbie should know before getting started?

Thanks

[SimonTek]

Hi,
Fraps it's surely the best for this purpose, it uses the same in-game screen res and shows a real-time benchmark of video FPS. Video are stored as AVI and they are very very large, Fraps doesn't have any kind of setup about audio mixer so you have to adjust volume by windows mixer before starting to record
about the video setting you can choose between PAL or NTSC and PC

the trial version allows to record 30sec of video and shows a watermark an the top of the screen
i suggest you to catch the full version

[molnibalage]

How could I miss thread?

Size depends on resolution. In 1280x1024 1 min length can be 1-1,5 GB.

[Snake Man]

Molnibalage, you have done many movies, can you walk me through of the usual method how its done, for example how much HDD space to you reserve for "video shoot" and if you aim for 3min final video clip, how many minutes of footage you usually get (or can you do it single take?) etc.

Basically what puts me off from making videos now is that I have about 10gb free HDD space