What tools do you use to record high definition videos from Unity?

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#1

I’ve used Fraps, Bandicam, but the video definition is very low.

I also used another plugin called FrameRecorder, which had a very good video definition, but sometimes it recorded the wrong result.like this

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do you know how to fix it?

#2

i have been using obs studio and then i’ll edit in after effects or something. i’ve had good results with it so far i think.

#3

I set it this way,

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but there is still chromatic aberration

#4

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this is how i set mine up. i ended up setting it this way because i couldn’t get the default way to import into ae with errors

#5

The recorded video still has chromatic aberration, but it’s much better than Bandicam, thanks

#6

I use Camtasia. Works a treat.

#7

If you have an Nvidia card, you can record via Geforce Experience Broadcast/Record functionality.
I’ve tested it a lot with UE4 without any frame drop on GTX970 + SSD drive and 32GB CPU RAM…

#8

Posting just to follow this thread. I have a bunch of stuff to record out of Unity, since no one will ever play the game and see the fx :confused:

#9

On AMD card can use ReLive, otherwise I did purchase Helios, seems working good.

#10

I just use fraps, not sure why it’s not giving you great results

#11

I always record with Gforce Experience, then quickly rip down with RipBot264. Super fast workflow and very high quality.

#12

I found another way to record videos, take a frame screenshot and then get PNG.and then import them to AE to get video.
this way did not have chromatic aberration.

#13

When I have to edit the videos I’ve captured, I struggle with .avi. Never found a good codec. What do you guys use?

I’ve tried exporting uncompressed from after effects and then compressing in Vdub, or directly exporting form after effects using the Xvid MPEG-4 Codec, but in both cases I end up with small file size at the cost of a quality that is not good enough. (Although I think I’ve set it all to the best quality I can).
(I even used to actually not be able to export from AE, I had to change an option somewhere to fix that, can’t remember where right now.)

Also I’m frustrated by the fact that I can’t export to the ratio I want.

.mov are easier, I find sorenson video 3 reliable.

#14

Depends what it’s for. For general feedback/review and tutorials I stick to h.264. Somewhat large, but the quality is fairly good.

Recording footage out of Unity
#15

I just found these great capture methods. This involves a veeeery simple script and it works well. It is forcing the engine render each frame at fixed frame rate so the result is super smooth video.

Another one is a great package which can also export individual frame buffer channels into openEXR 16bit so great for compositing.

First one is sufficient enough though. I wish I knew about this before!

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#16

that’s really cool. didn’t think about looking up something like that but out of udk3 I would always do the command line trick through the exe properties and it would be cool to have something give me similar results.

#17

nVidia shadowplay. You can adjust frame rate 30,60 fps and Mbs. Video saved in the mp4 container format, so it’s easy to upload on the youtube.

#18

Nvidia shadow play is very good, but I don’t think it’s as configurable as this…

Please believe me when i say OBS is kick ass.

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#19

I used this same technique (fixed slow frame rate capture) for creating ‘turntable’ videos of models in-engine a while ago. This write-up also goes over the video editing part of the process: github repo + instructions

This won’t really work for capturing realtime gameplay, but you could set up an effect to fire off in front of your camera and give it a go!

Also, here’s the original script I reference which uses the Time.captureFramerate functionality.

Note, this was a couple years ago - I haven’t tested this in recent versions of Unity :slight_smile:

Recording footage out of Unity