Using an external app to record flights.

[MattM1121 1]

Greetings Folks,

 

I used to use FRAPS as my tool to record flights. Recently I've upgraded my rig and now have a 4 monitor set up. Two monitors are standard 1280x1024 LCD DVI. Two are 1600x1200 touch screen VGA->MiniDisplay connector.

 

My Radeon HD 7850 has two DVI and two MiniDisplay. For whatever reason the frist MiniDisplay is considered monitor 1.

 

When I start FRAPS it uses the default "1" display which is, of course, is the wrong display. There is no way to tell FRAPS to use a different display.

 

I tried HyperCam2 but display drivers are causing issues which ends up being just a black video.

 

I tried Action! but all that does is crash FSX.

 

If anyone has any ideas or reccomendations for other apps that might help, I'd certainly appreciate it.

 

Thanks

[Gazzareth 808]

Have you tried FSRecorder? Not sure how it would work with that setup, but got to be worth a try...

 

G

[MattM1121 1]

Thanks for the idea Gazzareth, however that's internal to FSX and I need something that I can save as actual video.

[RedSpinnaker 35]

What type of video(s) are you looking to record? If not "live action", then there is an Alpha version of FSRecorder which may be what you're looking for.

 

http://www.fs-recorder.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=776

 

Essentially record the flight (or what segments/scenes you want) with FSRecorder. Then you can play back that recorder using FSRecorder's rendering engine. It essentially turns FSX into a 3-D rendering environment, allowing you to specify what resolution AND fixed FPS you want your output video to be. For example if you want a 1080p recording with perfect, solid, 30FPS video, it will render it that way. The tradeoff is depending upon your system specs, rendering can take a long time.

 

Check out the forums for some user videos using this feature. Result is silky smooth videos with the highest possible visual quality.

[ideoplastic 86]

Bandicam without a doubt! Payware though.