Frame by Frame video recording WITH AUDIO?

[Pendrokar]

Well I can say a huge THANK YOU to the developer that added the video recording!

But would it be possible to get the audio recorded at the right speed too?
One way I think it would work is that Spring timed the sound spots with their sound name and then after the recording is over it would create a sound file with all the timed sounds!
Or the UNREAL way that every sound would be stretched along with the FPS!

[Noruas]

What no, heck no! that is very hard to do! it just proves we are never satisfied anyway.

[[Krogoth86]]

Yeah I wished to have something like this too for a couple of times. Well I think the most easy way without having to redo the entire audio section really would be sort of a "replay" that gets recorded and saves things like "newboom.wav played at 155.8 sec". Then you'd just need an auto-tool that mixes the sounds together...

Should be a rather easy thing to do when you managed to save the audio output times...

[smoth]

fraps

[ironized]

fraps

can you say, pwnted machine?



on that note, use fraps on replays..

[[Krogoth86]]

fraps

Not for capturing heavy load scenes in higher resolutions with all fancy details at max...

[Otherside]

fraps works for me altho it dusnt record sound much check my sound settings (i do have sound record on on fraps) even with a ton of stuff on screen max settings etc

[Pxtl]

It'd be nasty, but perhaps notes of the audio-events could be shunted into a log, and then once the recording ends the log could be read back out and the simple "play X sound at Y volume at Z time" can get translated into a proper audio track?

[smoth]

fraps

Not for capturing heavy load scenes in higher resolutions with all fancy details at max...

really? and springs video recording is faster? I think not. I found fraps to actually cause less of a performance hit for me and I am recording video at 1440X900.

[Monkwarrior]

Or you could use a really good and free tool for this:
http://www.planetgamecam.com/

I have bought it and IMO way better then fraps.

Monk.

[Pxtl]

@Smoth

Fraps records the gameplay at the speed it is played. As I understand it, the Spring system records the gameplay at full speed, even if your screen is stuck crawling along at one-quarter the speed. That's why the details are important - you can crank the details to the max in such a way that your compy will crawl with either recorder.... but on playback it will look perfect.

Which is why sound would be a nighmare - the only feasible way would be a second-pass for sound.

[smoth]

not true.

I was trying to produce promotional materials in spring for sometime. Do you think I would purchase fraps if spring already could record proper video?

[[Krogoth86]]

really? and springs video recording is faster? I think not. I found fraps to actually cause less of a performance hit for me and I am recording video at 1440X900.

Spring's video recording isn't faster but just nicely done...
With fraps you just capture what gets output on screen - if there is a bad performance your video will be showing bad performance at those scenes too. With the spring recording the entire simulation slows down...

So if you have a complex scene with insane details at high-res with a high-bitrate codec and you just get 2 fps then you still will get a nice 30fps video that is a wonderful capture of your scene as the simulation will slow down to match your 2 fps. So while fraps just would capture those 2 fps with the spring recording you'll get a perfect video as the game speed / the simulation will get adapted to your fps to you always a nice video showing 30 real "ingame" fps...

The problem now of course is that the sound isn't slowed down in any way like that so you can't just speed up the audio layer to get your sounds matching the video and that's what is asked for here (i.e. a method to somehow make an audio file that fits your video - however you want to do that)...

[Pendrokar]

Off my topic(just related to recordings):
Well the only bad thing is that I record stuff three to ten times slower than I could with fraps(though with my PC the video would be really crappy!)!
It is interesting why there isn't a recorder like this as a program for every game that uses DirectX! I don't know if Supreme Commander has one, but with this kinda program that records frame by frame with just changing game speeds anyone could make High Quality videos not dependent on System Specs(except Hard Drive space, though I use Xvid as a codec in Spring)!

[[Krogoth86]]

Well it's probably about how things are programmed. An online-shooter for example wouldn't work with such a system...

I'd even say that any game where you can't adjust the game speed will never see such a feature and well that's like nearly every game out there...

[smoth]

I do not buy that krogoth, I have tried the spring video recorder several times in the past and it resulted in failure. Unless there was a massive update to it or your hardware is vastly superior to mine the spring video recording was always fail and it would sometimes fire out corrupted frames of video.

[Zpock]

What about frame by frame camera movement recording that can be replayed in a 2nd pass for sound in a replay?

[Peet]

The only problem with fraps is that it captures all sound when it records...I recorded a couple of spring videos with Fang ranting on VoIP

[smoth]

lol so you were on teamtalk recently?

[Peet]

Well I was referring to a few months ago, but yeah I still go on teamtalk occasionally.