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Been trying for a week and a half to screencap a replay in SA, but the game is just too flashy that even my fairly new and expensive rig is having trouble keeping up with recording anything.

Or so I thought. Then I tried Fraps, and realized that it was just CamStudio that was having trouble.

Anyways, this video file looks pretty great, especially given the small filesize (80 MB, down from 5.5 GB of source video), so I want to see how it looks on YouTube before I start recording my replay! =D

My machine:
-SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7970
-AMD FX-8120 (during this recording, I disabled four cores and overclocked the other four to 3.8 GHz)
-8 GB DDR3 Memory
-Windows 7 Professional (x64)
Self built! =P

Fraps (3.5.1) (37 USD)
-60 FPS, Full-size
-Record Win7 sound (Stereo)
-Split movie every 4 Gigabytes
-Lock Framerate while recording
-Force lossless RGB capture
For all the trouble it saved me, definitely worth the 37 dollars. This creates a beautiful, smooth source video file[s] that is VERY large, but looks EXACTLY like it did when I was playing.

VirtualDub (1.9.11) (Free/GPL)
-Append all the video segments
-Save a .avi with the merged video (Direct Stream Copy) and No Audio
-Save a .wav with the merged audio (Direct Stream Copy)

x264 (4.5.3) (8bit-depth) (Free/GPL)
CLI app:
> x264 --preset veryslow -o "output.mkv" "merged-video.avi"


mkvmerge (from mkvtoolnix 5.5.0) (Free/GPL)
Another CLI app:
> mkvmerge -o "final.mkv" "output.mkv" "merged-audio.wav"