Machinima help

Hi People,

Im having trouble with using Machinima in SL. I want to record what I am doing in SL but when I record the graphics in SL become delayed and slow. When I watch back the video I have just recorded the frames are slow and I want a smooth running video. How can I get this??????

I guess you're using Fraps? with Fraps and other screen recording programs, they're taking high quality pictures every second, which effects the FPS running the game. The only way to solve this is to get a better PC.

I have 2GB Ram, 8800 GTX 512mb and Athlon 64 2.2g processor.

this is what i filmed with them specs:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oU31aPGWw&fmt=18

I'm happy with the frame rate, even thou it did change alot! i guess are more beefy pc will up the FPS!

What's your specs?

Hardware and connection are paramount to recording quality footage in SL. Simply because, SL is already stressing your system, you have to have some spare power to do more.

You can possibly do two things to improve what you are trying to acheive, without having to spend any money:

1) Reduce the graphics settings in the SL Client. Unless you are trying to record a whole sim from a birds eye view, you don't need a great range. Adding distance haze in the environmental editor, will reduce the data captured and may smooth things out. Turnning off Particles, voice, media, all help with the capture. Dont use ingame movements when filming, use pan and zoon over a timeline in the editing programme for smoother movement.

2) Capture using a codec setting in Fraps, although quality may drop.

By no means a definitive of things you can do, but a start.