ZDoom Tutorials.

[Tormentor667]

I have a big problem with CamTasia and ZDoom If I record a Fullscreen ZDoom game, the colors of the recorded video seem to be screwed up and if I record a windowed version, the frames per second vary between 5 and 10, and I have no chance to speed this up Any suggestions?

[LK873]

I'm not all that great with this stuff, but could it be because ZDoom is using 8-bit graphics? Normally Windows is set between 16-bit and 32-bit graphics modes.

[Tormentor667]

I tried to change the bit-modi and also tried 8-bit (256 colors mode via winxp) but that didn't help

[Tormentor667]

Is anyone of you able to record fullscreen videos with one of the mentioned (or other) programs for capturing that stuff?

I already tried "SnagIt 7.0" and "CamTasia 2.0" and both have this color problem

[Cutmanmike]

try camstudio?

[NiGHTMARE]

Torm: how many colours is your OS running in? This could well affect the video capturing software.

[Tormentor667]

At the moment at 32 bit but I already reduced it to 16 bit and also tried WinXPs 256 color mode, but all without any success Always some of the colors are messed up (mostly the darker colors, the light ones (at 255 brightness for example) look okay.

[Galaxy_Stranger]

I didn't have any COLOR issues, but Camtasia has given me performance issues while capturing a game. This is what I did, and it works OK:

Run ZDoom and get it to open WINDOWED and change it's video mode to 800x600 or less. While the game is on, turn on Camtasia and have it capture only where Doom is being displayed. Then shut it all off, put the mic up against your speakers and start a new video. Then, start up ZDoom.

That's how I did it.

[Tormentor667]

This sounds kinda strange ,,,

[Bio Hazard]

alrighty, to get the sound to record, you need to set the recording channel to "what you hear" in the windows mixer panel, many cards do not have this feature. (my audigy does, and my live5.1 does too) if it doesnt have that option, you need to get a cable to run from your speaker output into your line-in input and record from that

if you dont understand (that was kind of a bad explanation). ill make some pictures...

[Tormentor667]

Well,.sound is working fine for me, that's not the problem Just the screen capturing has bugs

[Kappes Buur]

I am running Camtasia Studio with Camtasia Recorder version 1.1.1.

While the sound and the colours record correctly, I take a heavy hit with the framerate.
It records at ca 4 frames per second, recording an area of 640 x 480.

The hardware:
videocard : Nvidia FX 5200 running at AGP 4x
soundcard : Soundblaster!Live recording setting "What you hear"
computer : AMD 700Mhz Duron <-- yeah, I know. sloooowww

So, that's no good for recording any game action, but for recording static screens it is very good.

[Tormentor667]

Do you run this with Fullscreen or Windowed Mode?

[Enjay]

I can record Zdoom videos using FRAPS. However, there is a problem. If I use the newest version, for some reason any fireball just hangs in the air with 0 speed when it is launched. I have e-mailed the FRAPS people, but they are unable to replicate the problem (they even sent me a video to prove it). Fortunately I held on to an older version (2.2.5) which works fine with Zdoom. Quite why having FRAPS loaded affects the gameplay in Zdoom, I don't know, but it does on my machine at least.

[Kappes Buur]

Do you run this with Fullscreen or Windowed Mode?

I tried to capture the game action in Windowed Mode, selecting the area of the window.
Otherwise, I capture in Fullscreen.