How to capture a video of a game

Asked By Grace W Runyon 30 points N/A Posted on - 06/06/2012

In some games I need to capture videos for various reason.

Can you tell me how can I capture videos of a game ?

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Answered By Chad Wiker 0 points N/A #133273

How to capture a video of a game

The capturing of game video from your Mac or windows installed computer is very easy. There are many computer programs that can use for this purpose. Most famous uses ones are FRAPS and Game cam. They can be easily downloaded and installed. The Game cam is freeware software but the FRAPS is paid software. Once you have installed the program. The Video can be captured by the capture option in the software while you are playing games.

Remember that you have plenty of disk space on your hard disk drive in order to store huge video files that will be generated. Once the video cam be captured then you can edit it and make your game capture video. FRAPS show fps, record video game movies, screen capture software.

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Answered By B.Bullecer 0 points N/A #133274

How to capture a video of a game

This actually depends on from which device you want to capture that particular game.

On PC or your mobile or an actual gaming console maybe?

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Answered By Kristna Medlla -10 points N/A #133272

How to capture a video of a game

Snapping videos from any games is a nice thing to do and there are various ways to do this.

Listed below are some of the well-known methods that is proven to work:

Console Direct to Digital via Camcorder

The console direct to digital via camcorder method is an effective method although this seems to be very expensive. You just need to connect the console to your camcorder through a split cable, the other end should be connected with the TV to enable the gamer to play while recording the current video game. The camcorder has a microphone which should be used as needed.

 

Console Direct to Digital via Capture Card

Another way is to which you can install an inner capture card on your PC, you need to pick wisely because what you decided to use does matter. I don't find it easy to play on a computer screen so you need to utilize a split cable. And then connect the line-in on the gaming console and the line-outs of your television and capture card on your computer. You also need to connect the microphone on your sound card or capture card for recording. It is not too pricey and the utilize as a direct method.

 

Another method includes the installation of an internal capture card on your PC. On this method, it is important to consider which type of capture card you are using. The good thing about this is you can also use a split cable connected in the gaming console and your television to snap the correct essence of playing games on a bigger screen. You will surely be needing to connect the microphone in the sound/capture card for audio review. A substantial improvement on using this method over the first one is that it is considerably cheaper to use.

 

The "point-camera-at-TV" Method

this method can be utilize by just pointing your camera to your television. The recording quality in this will be based on which type of camera you will be using. Recording audio on this method can be performed by syncing properly with the picture and audio from the game.

 

Record Using VCR

Recording through VCR is another way that you can record your video game even though this is an old method. This can be performed by connecting the console in your VCR and can be converted the VHS tapes into a digital format.

 

Record Using FRAPS (or similar program)

The last method is consider to be the most effective when recording video games by using a software like FRAPS.

 

The choices for saving your games through this software is a lot and may change depending on the advantages of each. One way to use this is to record straight from the ROM of your console. Some conditions is present on this one as the legal status of the ROM based on the game and country you are living.

 

If you wish to use FRAPS emulator to create a copy of your old games, a guaranteed quality can be expected. 

 

 

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