Recording gameplay with audio commentary

05 November 2007, 17:23

Hi, I'm trying to do a video Let's Play on an Amiga game. This basically means recording a video of the gameplay while providing audio commentary through microphone. Look around on YouTube to find examples. Anyway, I've encountered some problems with this. Two recording programs I know of are HyperCam and CamStudio. With HyperCam I can't manage to capture the video from WinUAE at all. It just shows a black picture. CamStudio works well otherwise, but in the resulting video I can see my Windows mouse cursor at the middle of the WinUAE window even though I can't see it directly during actual gameplay. Any ideas how I could accomplish this humble deed of mine? In the meantime, I'll see if I can get better results with WinFellow.

BippyM · 05 November 2007, 21:25

use winuae avi output to record video/audio and some standard audio recording prog (goldwave maybe) to record your commentry then simply rip sound out of avi, and mix the 2 together (lowering volume obviously of ingame fx).. then remux

05 November 2007, 22:30

That would be one solution, but I would prefer to sync them better. With the slowdown avi output causes I'd probably end up with two minutes of commentary per one minute of video. I might just swallow my defeat and record things with the mouse pointer in the middle. I figure I could change it to something less intrusive than the white arrow.

BippyM · 05 November 2007, 22:32

why do you get slowdown? I never have slowdown when i'm recording avi!

DamienD · 05 November 2007, 22:51

If you don't want to use WinUAE directly you could also try using SnagIt. It's supposed to be pretty good

05 November 2007, 22:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by bippym

why do you get slowdown? I never have slowdown when i'm recording avi!

Maybe I've picked bad codecs or something. However, I found a solution which makes me feel like

for not figuring it out sooner. I simply have to activate the WinUAE window by alt-tab instead of clicking on it, and I can play without it trapping the mouse. Problem solved! Good thing the game isn't mouse-controlled.

adix · 06 November 2007, 05:17

You have a good tutorial here for the capture with winuae.
I use myself the Techsmith screen capture codec in fast compression mode, and i encode the result in xvid with virtualdub.
I don't capture any games, but many demos, my collection is on youtube.

AGN · 06 November 2007, 22:33

create OGM file with 2 audio streams

05 November 2007, 17:23	#1
Crowley Posts: n/a	Recording gameplay with audio commentary Hi, I'm trying to do a video Let's Play on an Amiga game. This basically means recording a video of the gameplay while providing audio commentary through microphone. Look around on YouTube to find examples. Anyway, I've encountered some problems with this. Two recording programs I know of are HyperCam and CamStudio. With HyperCam I can't manage to capture the video from WinUAE at all. It just shows a black picture. CamStudio works well otherwise, but in the resulting video I can see my Windows mouse cursor at the middle of the WinUAE window even though I can't see it directly during actual gameplay. Any ideas how I could accomplish this humble deed of mine? In the meantime, I'll see if I can get better results with WinFellow.

06 November 2007, 05:17	#7
adix Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: paris/france Age: 66 Posts: 15	You have a good tutorial here for the capture with winuae. I use myself the Techsmith screen capture codec in fast compression mode, and i encode the result in xvid with virtualdub. I don't capture any games, but many demos, my collection is on youtube. Last edited by adix; 06 November 2007 at 05:25.

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05 November 2007, 21:25	#2
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	use winuae avi output to record video/audio and some standard audio recording prog (goldwave maybe) to record your commentry then simply rip sound out of avi, and mix the 2 together (lowering volume obviously of ingame fx).. then remux

05 November 2007, 22:30	#3
Crowley Posts: n/a	That would be one solution, but I would prefer to sync them better. With the slowdown avi output causes I'd probably end up with two minutes of commentary per one minute of video. I might just swallow my defeat and record things with the mouse pointer in the middle. I figure I could change it to something less intrusive than the white arrow.

05 November 2007, 22:32	#4
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	why do you get slowdown? I never have slowdown when i'm recording avi!

05 November 2007, 22:51	#5
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	If you don't want to use WinUAE directly you could also try using SnagIt. It's supposed to be pretty good

06 November 2007, 22:33	#8
AGN Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Poland Posts: 142	create OGM file with 2 audio streams

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