Movies are too fast

I've tried every codec available in the list you get when you start a movie to disk. They either don't work at all making a zero length file, or they come out way too fast, maybe three times the original speed. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

I get this too, very annoying. The FPS for the movie seems all wrong.

I've not noticed this problem in the few videos I've captured.

Make sure you save "full frames (uncompressed)" and that you have a fast hard drive and a well-above-specifications CPU.

If frames are being skipped but the AVI is marked for playback at 30 frames per second, it will play back at 30 frames per second, and those skipped frames will make it look like fast motion.

Afterwards, you'll obviously need to use something like VirtualDub to compress the AVI down to a reasonable size.

BTW, make sure your hard drive is defragged as well.

The uncompressed mode has problems for me too. The movies max out at 2 gigs. And they get wacky where the screen divides into 4 squares and the squares aren't in their correct position. So I was trying the other options.

SL's built in movie capture doesn't compensate for how long it takes your system to render each frame. I found that if I took a video flying around in the vehicle sims, it actually came out in slow motion because I was going over 30FPS.

Get Fraps. It works perfectly - everything comes out at exactly the framerate it was captured at, with sound. It's thirty bucks to register it but well worth it. I use Fraps for my own movies. You can see a demo I recorded here.

Oh, good. I thought it was just me. I haven't been able to use any I've made. They go way too fast to even tell whats going on.

thanks, Huns!!!! im going to try out fraps tonight. I've tried using camtasia recently to capture, but it is the suck.

any tips on getting started?
i love the idea of being able to capture at the resolutions they say it can, hehe if this is half as cool as it sounds, its well worth the money.

nah, just go to fraps.com and register it, it's a piece of cake