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Camtasia Studio 8 - Best Recording and HD Render Settings(YouTube Tutorial)


Hollow Ichigo

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After some research on youtube and many testings, the settings below appear to be the best as far as recording quality and conversion!

Recommended for recording Mugen matches or just PC Video Games in general.

-Prerequisite-

1.First of all, you must have the Lagarith Lossless Video Codec installed on your pc.

Where to get it?

Go to the official site and get this great codec

http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html

Notice:If you have installed the latest K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, you should do fine. It is already included in the package.

If you do not need all these codecs packed, just download Lagarith from the official site.

2.Make sure that your "Stereo Mix" Device is Enabled in your sound card/chip.

For Windows 7 32/64Bit (tested):

"Right Click" on the volume icon in the task bar and select "Recording Devices".

You should see the "Sound" window and the "Recording" tab. "Right Click" anywhere outside the icons and enable your "Stereo Mix" device. Click OK.

-Tutorial-

1.Open Camtasia Studio 8. Click "Record the Screen". The Recording window should show up.

2.Click "Tools" on the recorder bar at the top. The "Tool Options" window should show up.

3.In the "General" Tab select "Record to .avi".

4.Click on the "Inputs" tab. Make sure you that:

-Screen capture frame rate is set to 30(fps)

-In "Video Settings" to the right, select Lagarith Video Codec and press OK.(No need to configure the plugin, leave it as it is, default. )

5. In "Audio Device", select "Stereo Mix"(You audio card/chip, ex. Realtek/VIA/Audigy/Xonar or something)

-Note, If you can't see "Stereo Mix", that means the device is disabled. Recheck Prerequisite Option 2 above.

Click "Audio settings" and choose the sound quality of your recording. 44100Hz, 16Bit, Stereo should suffice.

6.Click "OK"(Closes the "Tool Options" window.)

Here is the youtube video with the steps as described above.

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iyvI8xRavo

-Render & Conversion-

Follow the Tutorial in this youtube video below. You must create a new preset called "YouTube Settings" (You may create more presets, if you like).

Once done you can use it anytime to render and convert your recordings at full HD quality.

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H52iOaqFgY

All credit goes to the YouTube uploaders.

If you can record at 640x480p ~30fps without any issue(CPU heavily based), your recorded video should look crystal clear and ready to be converted in HD resolutions.

You won't even need VirtualDub to sharpen or convert the video.

*Optional*

You may edit the source avi file produced with the Lagarith Lossless Video Codec in VirtualDub, if you feel like.

Convert it as MP4 with Camtasia Studio, always. It just works well.

LAST UPDATED: December 02, 2012

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+1 my dude, good shit.

now, is this meant for those that wanna record mugen vids, or just vids in general? tha reason i ask is if it's tha former & not tha latter, then you should request this to be moved to Mugen Help, tha Tute sect.

You can record Mugen or Video Games in general. As far as I know, Camtasia Studio is a Screen Capture software. As long as you play the game in a window, camtasia records it without any issues.

If there is a way to record at full screen, let me know ASAP. I will add new info above, first post.

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that wasn't my question bud. i know what it can do to some extent, cuz i myself have CTS 7. i was askin' if your particular Tute & tha settings you pointed out was meant as help for those who wanna record Mugen, or just for those who wanna record in general, that's all.

The Tutorial is meant to help ppl recording their Mugen or PC Video Games. It's already clarified in the beginning first post.

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can you please" tell me how to change are render my background and characters from having that ugly 8bit looking graphic. i have try every video settings in mugen but am still getting the same result, and they are the two lates version 1.0 & 1.1... i have a good DDR3 system with a solid ASUS 4GB graphic card, and running win7.64bit. The SNES and SEGA emulator have a way better look on my system.

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