Can't record movie with current SL viewer?
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Nae Mayo
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03-04-2009 17:27
I remember the option for recording movie used to be in the same menu as snapshot. But I couldn't find it now.
Has LL moved this option to a different location? Or they have completely removed it?
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Keira Wells
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03-04-2009 17:41
Advanced > Recorder
If you don't have the Advanced menu available, CTRL+ALT+D will show it.
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Viktoria Dovgal
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03-04-2009 17:54
The recorder in the advanced menu is a different animal, it lets your avatar retrace its steps, or rather flies you around to where you recorded.
The built-in video recorder was terminally buggy and put out of its misery. Even Lindens had given up trying to use it, and were using external recording programs.
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Keira Wells
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03-04-2009 18:04
From: Viktoria Dovgal The recorder in the advanced menu is a different animal, it lets your avatar retrace its steps, or rather flies you around to where you recorded. I totally need to actually try that out. That sounds awesome.
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Viktoria Dovgal
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03-04-2009 18:15
For a little extra fun try it with flight assist, the acceleration should still work.
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SkyBlue Diesel
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03-04-2009 19:05
my son uses a program called Hypercam, which can record what you are doing on the screen, unfortunatly it says hyper cam on the top when you playback unless you get the payed version. I havent used it myself but he uses it in another online game.
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Osprey Therian
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03-04-2009 19:40
From: SkyBlue Diesel my son uses a program called Hypercam, which can record what you are doing on the screen... The free CamStudio does that too. Fraps is not free but is cheap and awesome. |
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Nae Mayo
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03-04-2009 20:07
Thanks everyone. The original record is crappy. The playback is in fast motion and file size is really large. Would like to know if there are any other on screen recorder other than those already suggested. Thanks  |
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Cito Karu
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03-04-2009 20:25
most recorders will be huge files since it's raw output mostly.
You need to convert it when done to what format, wmv/divx/xvid/mpeg/etc
you can use windows movie maker that comes with xp to compress it.
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spinster Voom
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03-04-2009 20:31
I'd second Osprey's suggestions. I spent a while looking around for suitable programmes and these were the best I found at the free/cheap end. Others may have more advice if you want to spend more.
Cam Studio will record anything you do onscreen and so is great if you ever have to put together a video tutorial for any software. For SL it lowered my framerate too much to be useful.
Fraps will record in good quality any OpenGL application, including SL. It does lower the framerate a bit but still produces nice footage. It only costs around $30 IIRC and there's a free demo version you can try (records 30 seconds at a time).
That Advanced>Recorder thing sounds great fun!
ETA: Another thing I came across when I was looking around was Virtualdub. It's a free video converter which converts just about any video or audio format with any codec to just about any other format. It's great for all those "Windows cannot open this file" moments.
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