It’s currently in it’s 5th iteration, and it has a very nice, simple, and easy to understand layout. It’s also fairly inexpensive, and it’s overall fairly reliable. It takes some nice photos that don’t suffer the compression level of other programs like Steam’s overlay taker. It is great for benchmarking games with it’s counter. Until now, FRAPS has always been regarded as the de facto starting point. Other free titles were archaic, with everything all over the place, and others were very confusing in their menus, and options.įrom there I had to realize I would need to buy something. But not something you’ll want for capturing things.) (As an aside, I did find the program was nice for making animated gif files. Other times videos would have a warped “Fish Eye” look as if the POV settings were altered in some way. Virtualdub for instance will encode video, but at least in my case audio, and video didn’t sync properly. However, in my experience with many of them there are big problems.

Hopping on your favorite search engine, and researching for awhile will net you some free solutions. But the first step to any video endeavor is even getting footage in the first place. However, I have toyed with the idea of doing video reviews at some point should I become proficient enough that I can have some voice over, a few clips, and maybe a couple of nice title cards.

I simply do not have the same level of creativity or resources many outlets, other bloggers, or internet celebrities do when it comes to video editing.

What’s that?: There is a freeware version to test the waters.Īs far as utilities go, I’m not a big time enthusiast. Cannot (Currently) broadcast to live feeds. PROS: Fairly inexpensive when compared to AAA budget suites, with some great features.ĬONS: Only works with PC games at this time. Yet every freeware solution you’ve used has been pretty bad in one respect or another. You need to record game footage on a shoe string budget.

Playclaw 5+ not recording