How does one make a video of happenings in Trainz?

[Lendorf]

Hi all, a stupid question. How does one take a video capture of what is happening on your monitor screen? Does one need an external "video maker/capture" program for this or perhaps Trainz can make a video, like it does with screenshots?

Sorry if the answer is found with search but too many posts came up when searching for "video". None came up with "video making" etc.

I also posted this in the very obscure and hidden sub forum of Forum/Workshops - Your Creations/Screenshots/Trainz videos but I have a feeling not many people might be looking there at any given time.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Lennard

 

[Derekc75]

Download the free FRAPS program at:

http://www.fraps.com/download.php

It will take 10 second videos when you press the F9 Key (you can change this key-combo). Then you can use a program live Windows Live Movie maker to add/edit videos.

Cheers,

Derek

 

[Lendorf]

Thank you kind Sir, I will try FRAPS out later.

Thans again

Lennard

 

[wpn96]

I use Bandicam, which in my opinion is better than Fraps. Because you can record a lot (if not infinite) amounts of footage. Without taking up as much space as Fraps.

Here's a link:

http://www.bandicam.com/

It's a great gaming footage software! Try it out!!

-William

 

[cascaderailroad]

Following a train, like a helicoper pacing the train, is totally unrealistic.

Setting up a trackside camera right at the loud clanging crossing gates, and blowing the horn incessantly is really annoying.

Taking a 60 second video of a train comming down the track, is about as boring as watching someones three hour, longwinded, narration of their 1200 slide show presentation of their missionary trip to Haiti.

To make things interesting, keep video segments well under 10 seconds, as a viewer's attention span wanders away from boredom.

Spice dozens of 5 second clips together, and your viewers will not fall asleep during your video.

 

[Lendorf]

@wpn96:

Thank you for the info :wave:.

@cascaderailroad:

For me it is for making small videos of my created animated scenery objects, including nightmode etc., so I can place a video link from my web site in the Freeware forum, for people to see how my created animations work in Trainz.

Screenshots will not show animations, hence....

Lennard

 

[itareus]

If you have Nvidia graphics you may already have this installed:

http://www.geforce.co.uk/geforce-experience/shadowplay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Shadowplay

Might be worth checking out.

 

[Enzo1]

Following a train, like a helicoper pacing the train, is totally unrealistic.

Setting up a trackside camera right at the loud clanging crossing gates, and blowing the horn incessantly is really annoying.

Taking a 60 second video of a train comming down the track, is about as boring as watching someones three hour, longwinded, narration of their 1200 slide show presentation of their missionary trip to Haiti.

To make things interesting, keep video segments well under 10 seconds, as a viewer's attention span wanders away from boredom.

Spice dozens of 5 second clips together, and your viewers will not fall asleep during your video.

That's debateable. I make 20 min videos of multiple trains going across routes... People seem to like them, so my advice would be do whatever floats your boat. You may make one video, you have so much fun with it, that you want to make hundreds more!

 

[chris2001trainz2010]

Okay, i just downloaded Bandicam, so how exactly do i make a video of Trainz with it?

 

[philskene]

I've tried most of the video capture applications but my preference is FRAPS. But if you are at all serious about making videos you will need certainly the full version.

If you do decide on FRAPS, start it before going into Trainz. Configure the hot key you want to use for recording video (I set it to F12) then start Trainz.

Press the hot key to record.

The other part is compressing the video, particularly if you intend sharing the video by uploading it to youtube. The output from FRAPS will be several GB even for a very short video. A 2 minutes 47 second segment, for example, weighs in at almost 8 GB.

I generally compress down to about 400 to 600 MB using VirtualDub (it's freeware), resulting in an HD video that looks like this (best watched full screen and in HD):

Phil