Adjust the audio slider so that at loudest moments (explosions etc.) the audio bar becomes yellow, not green or red. Or just pause, save and start recording another segment at convenient moments.īefore you start recording, decide if you want to record the mouse cursor (> Effects > Cursor).

from Faster to Better).Ĭamtasia might interrupt your recording if the intermediate clip reaches 4 GB so you might want to adjust the quality slider or set realtime audio encoding to MP3 to save some space. Most of these options you'll only need to set once but be aware that other software can change video codec configuration (e.g. avi clips at 30 frames per second, with lossless video and uncompressed sound. My OS is Windows XP SP3, some recommendations might not apply to Vista and 7 users.įirst, start Camtasia Recorder and set the recording options (> Tools > Options). I'm using Camtasia Studio 7 (expensive but there's a free 30-day trial) for recording and light editing and VirtualDub (free) for some video filters that Camtasia doesn't have. This is not a tutorial for editing trailers, but a guide to recording smooth footage that looks crisp on YouTube. Over more than a year of recording indie computer games for YouTube, I've accumulated some technical experience and I want to share it with you. For greatly hardware-accelerated 3D games, you will probably be better off with Fraps (tutorial at Speed Demos Archive). I wrote a new tutorial.ĮDIT: this advice applies mostly to recording games without fancy graphics. WARNING: this tutorial hasn't been updated since Jbecause I have switched to Extensoft Screen Capturer.

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