Fraps questions

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kwheng

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Hi all,

After all these years I have begun to explore this program and I have 2 questions.

1. I am exploring the free version at the moment. Is it worth buying the full version? If so, what can it do that the free version doesn't?

2. Is there such a thing as a minimum acceptable frame rate? If so, what is it?

Any feedback would be very much appreciated.
 
I have the bought version, it allows for videos longer than 30 seconds, it can also have the video as one file or split into separate files every 4gb.

Cheers.
 
I have the full version of FRAPS. I've never had any regrets.

Just use it with all the default settings and the results are excellent.

If, however, you are thinking about uploading to youtube be aware that you will need to compress the FRAPS output, which will be several GB for even short video clip.

"VirtualDub" is an excellent freeware video compression application. It is very fast and the results are good. I compress down to about 700MB. Just search youtube with "philskene" to see my output.

Phil
 
Thank you all for your comments. And thanks davesnow for pointing me to Bandicam. Have checked it out and it seems to be the one to use for me. I'm sorry if my questions seemed silly or naive but I am a complete novice in this area.
Thanks again.
 
It looks like both FRAPS and Bandicam are similar. Both are "payware" (unless you wnat watermarks on your video & a 10 minute recording limit). The Bandicam registered version costs $39 & FRAPS is $37. I've used FRAPS to record Trainz videos The video was recorded using FRAPS. It was then edited with Windows Live Movie Maker (free download for Windows 7) and converted to WMV format. Windows Live Movie Maker was also used to publish the video to YouTube. FRAPS "raw" recordings are very large but the movie (WMV) versions are much, much smaller.
 
One thing I will warn with both is that they will affect the framerate quite a bit and may prevent Trainz from running properly if used for long periods.

Shane
 
Another thing on Fraps...

If you have trouble writing/recording a video at the native size, set the video size to something less and adjust the size until you get the best performance you can while recording. Remember, if you're going to play the video on YouTube, you don't need to set it to 1080p. This is nice, but not necessary, and keep in mind that the smaller video size will also play smoother, and the recorded video (Raw size) will also be a bit smaller.

John
 
Fraps sucks. You only get 29 seconds before it stops. Bandicam you can record ten minute sessions. It also is superior quality and doesn't leave watermarks and the benchmarks are great.
 
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