How to record a video with the PMDG 777

[James8133 1]

Hello,

 So I recently came up with this amazing idea to make a PMDG 777 music video. I have seen other people make these amazing PMDG videos and post them on their YouTube channel. I've always wondered how do they do it? Does anybody know HOW to record a video with the PMDG 777?

 

Sincerely,

 James

[ddswh1pk0s 8]

Use a recording program such as FRAPS, OBS (open source, Kyle uses this), Bandicam, or if you have a qualifying Nvidia graphics card you can use Shadowplay.

[James8133 1]

How good of a quality is FRAPS, and OBS? I have a NVIDIA Graphics Card GEFORCE GTX 650

[ddswh1pk0s 8]

FRAPS has perfect recording quality with the sacrifice of extremely large file sizes. I have not used OBS personally but from a few videos I've seen on Kyle's channel (Scandanavian13) it looks pretty good.

 

And it looks like your graphics card is compatible with Nvidia ShadowPlay so that would also be a good choice. To get ShadowPlay you need to download Nvidia Geforce Experience and then it will be in there

[James8133 1]

Have you ever recorded any videos before? And how to you record them with the FSX?

[ddswh1pk0s 8]

I've recorded some with FRAPS and some with ShadowPlay. To record them just press the recording hotkey (mine for FRAPS is F9) then it will start recording.

[James8133 1]

Will I notice a drop in fps? I know that with FS Recorder, it doesn't work well with PMDG at all?

[ddswh1pk0s 8]

With Shadowplay I get no FPS drop and in FRAPS I get a drop of about 4-5 FPS. FS recorder doesn't work well with PMDG aircraft because of the advanced animations

[James8133 1]

Yeah... I noticed that when I recorded my flight with FS Recorder. After I stopped recording, I played back the video and it didn't seem to work right. I pushed record when I was pushing back from the gate. So when I played back the video, it didn't pushback like it was supposed to do.

[James8133 1]

I've recorded some with FRAPS and some with ShadowPlay. To record them just press the recording hotkey (mine for FRAPS is F9) then it will start recording.

I downloaded the Shadowplay and recorded the FSX video. When I was editing the video, the quality of Shadowplay SUCKED! It was so bad that I COULDN"T see the plane CLEARLY...

[ddswh1pk0s 8]

What bitrate do you have shadowplay set to? Did you record in windowed or full screen

[James8133 1]

Fullscreen.

[TheNerd 12]

There's obviously something wrong with your Shadowplay. You have to launch it from Nvidia GeForce Experience. I mean, Shadowplay, IMO has the BEST video quality.

[James8133 1]

Is IMO free?

How do I fix it?

[TheNerd 12]

IMO = "in my opinion"