What are the most interesting programs to capture MSFS videos in the at the moment? Is there an option where MSFS records something itself?

 

56 minutes ago, harpsi said:

What are the most interesting programs to capture MSFS videos in the at the moment? Is there an option where MSFS records something itself?

 

MSFS does not offer this feature, but you can use either Shadowplay (through Geforce Experience) or Windows Game Bar capture function.

12 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

MSFS does not offer this feature, but you can use either Shadowplay (through Geforce Experience) or Windows Game Bar capture function.

Does it make MSFS too slow while recording? Maybe someone has some experience to share...

I noticed no significant slow down while using Shadowplay through Nidia Experience, and I captured in native 4k.
I won't do 4k again though, as the file sizes are massive!  Switching to 2k in future (2560 x 1440).  

 

9 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

I noticed no significant slow down while using Shadowplay through Nidia Experience, and I captured in native 4k.
I won't do 4k again though, as the file sizes are massive!  Switching to 2k in future (2560 x 1440).  

 

I fly in 3440x1440. I have RTX 3090 and I never went below 45 to 50 fps. i will try both. 🙂

4 hours ago, harpsi said:

Does it make MSFS too slow while recording? Maybe someone has some experience to share...

Not at all... but I have a 3090. 

Never saw a slow down with Shadowplay even with my (old and tired) racing horse of a computer

I use the freeware OBS ... but it does cause stutters when recording on slower computers.

The Nvidia app for me kept randomly recording the wrong screen.

8 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

...The Nvidia app for me kept randomly recording the wrong screen.

What!  You mean like someone else's? 

I wondered how Chock was smashing all of those videos out!  

14 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

What!  You mean like someone else's? 

I wondered how Chock was smashing all of those videos out!  

nah  ... it seems to find the videos of topless Latvian line dancers riding Peruvian llamas that I have running on my second screen more interesting than MSFS and records that instead.

OBS also has other useful features like letting me easily record at a lower resolution or choose whether to record the mouse cursor in game or not. 

The downside is it is not good on slower PCs.

Edited August 27, 20214 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

I use the record function on my ATI GPU's software for my youtube channel vids. Used to use FRAPS. I had to faff about a bit over the course of a few videos to find the best options for the ATI card, but having done that it seems to do the job okay now. The V/O is done with a Blue Snowball microphone at the same time. MSFS can easily maintain decent FPS using this method.

I don't use a script, but I do tend to make one up in my head whilst I'm doing any research on the aeroplane itself so that I pretty much know what I'm going to say by the time I'm ready to record, so that often involves looking in lots of my books on aeroplanes, sometimes searching for info online and such. I do usually write a few bits down on a bit of paper and have it to hand; things such as technical data which I want to repeat accurately, but I can usually remember that kind of thing so it's rarely used and is mostly a back up in case I forget things whilst recording. It's usually all done in one take and I keep going, so any faff-ups are edited out afterwards or kept in for comedy value, but most of the time the only stuff I edit out is places where I might go 'errm', if I'm trying to recall some fact about the aeroplane, however, the ability to do that and keep things flowing is limited by the fact that if you cut that, you'd also cut the visuals and have a jump cut, so as I say, it's mostly all in one go with me trying not to mess up. I don't mind leaving in the odd one of these as it adds to the human touch anyway, and if I make a crappy landing I'll usually leave that in as well to keep things honest and occasionally amusing.

The recording from MSFS using the GPU results in an MP4 file with a data rate of 28,000 kbps, with two-channel audio at 290 kbps (48,000 Hz). This means a file size of about 5.5 Gb for a 25 minute video with sound. This is then taken into Adobe Premiere Pro and edited a bit (noise reduction, some cutting of things, boosting sound for sections with the engine, occasionally re-recording some stuff, adding the titles, Dublin Core metadata and any other stuff such as stills). That is then exported as an MP4 with the codec for youtube, which takes that same 25 minute vid down to about 3Gb in size and that's what gets uploaded to youtube. The other stuff for the upload process is mostly adding additional metadata at the upload stage, making a poster in Adobe Photoshop and putting some links in the description.

4 hours ago, MrFuzzy said:

Not at all... but I have a 3090. 

I have almost the same specs as you, except 10900K.

2 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

nah  ... it seems to find the videos of topless Latvian line dancers riding Peruvian llamas that I have running on my second screen more interesting than MSFS and records that instead.

OBS also has other useful features like letting me easily record at a lower resolution or choose whether to record the mouse cursor in game or not. 

The downside is it is not good on slower PCs.

This is something I miss when I fly in Peru, no llama ! Disappointing. On the other hand, I have not yet flown in Latvia. Maybe I should.

Already tried Shadowplay. Fantastic for my needs.

 

7 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

nah  ... it seems to find the videos of topless Latvian line dancers riding Peruvian llamas that I have running on my second screen more interesting than MSFS and records that instead.

Can you send me the link? I am a bit bored of watching topless Latvian Llamas riding unicycles on Bondi Beach.😴

 

Flight Recorder (freeware) is sufficient for my needs until MSFS has the integrated replay system we're expecting.