Screen capture with comms

[SShrike]

I am wondering if anyone can explain how they create screen capture videos that include voice comms of themselves and squadron members. What program or hardware allows one to capture the game video and audio along with chat on discord, srs or team speak etc. 
Thanks

[ITAF_Airone1989]

Anything that record your screen like the Nvidia programme..

 

You just have to record the screen and you will be able to rewatch exactly anything that happened on your screen + anything that you heard/said.

If you use the Discord overlay you will also see the name of the guy that is speaking

[ShamrockOneFive]

The most common is OBS (https://obsproject.com/) which is a bit complex to start up but once you've got it set you can record anything and either stream it or record it to a file for later. If you have an nVidia card, they have something called ShadowPlay onboard as well which will do it. It's a bit easier to use and has less of a hit on system resources but it's a little less flexible. Note that you'll want a lot of hard drive space if you start recording long sessions.

[RedKestrel]

3 hours ago, ShamrockOneFive said:

The most common is OBS (https://obsproject.com/) which is a bit complex to start up but once you've got it set you can record anything and either stream it or record it to a file for later. If you have an nVidia card, they have something called ShadowPlay onboard as well which will do it. It's a bit easier to use and has less of a hit on system resources but it's a little less flexible. Note that you'll want a lot of hard drive space if you start recording long sessions.

Nvidia GeForce Experience will also record, and by default records comms. You can also tell the recorder to record different applications as different audio files, so you can have the comms be recorded in one file, and the game sounds in another. 

[ShamrockOneFive]

23 minutes ago, RedKestrel said:

Nvidia GeForce Experience will also record, and by default records comms. You can also tell the recorder to record different applications as different audio files, so you can have the comms be recorded in one file, and the game sounds in another. 

 

GeForce Experience is the launcher for ShadowPlay.

[RedKestrel]

13 minutes ago, ShamrockOneFive said:

 

GeForce Experience is the launcher for ShadowPlay.

Oh, I thought it was a different thing.

[Mollotin]

yeah, some nvidia video cards have a recording ability.

[ITAF_Airone1989]

I confirm, I can record using GeForce Experience

[DD_Arthur]

Hi SShrike, I use Nvidia shadowplay and team speak.

I don't do any live streaming but I  do make vids of our squad's coops. I find Shadowplay makes less of a demand on my system than OBS and allows uncompressed upload to YouTube.

 

I use the recording facility in teamspeak to record our comms. I'm not sure if shadowplay is able to record both the game sounds and teamspeak simultaneously.

 

My method is to set teamspeak recording before mission start and then record the mission itself with the excellent ingame track recorder.

 

To synchronise the comms track I'm recording with the ingame track recorder I simply say "3-2-1 mark" and hit the track record button.

 

This gives me an audio source and a video source to combine.

To make a video I cue up the audio source to my 3-2-1 countdown and replay my track. This means voice comms and visuals are in sync.

I can then hit shadowplay and it will record both sources together.

 

Top cover to a P38 strike

 

 

I can then use the options in YouTube to remove the first few seconds of the video I have uploaded to remove unwanted stuff like my desktop or starting the game whilst the track recorder is cued up.

It also has the benefit of being able to bump up the games visual settings whilst playing back the track.

 

Hope this helps

Edited January 21, 2021 by DD_Arthur

[SShrike]

Thanks everyone for the replies. 
I downloaded Nvidia game experience and gave that a try. It works perfectly and is quite easy to use, once you navigate around the interface to get familiar. I did notice that there is nothing called shadow play anymore, but capture is easy as pushing a button. I did a test and captured video and comms audio no problem at all. True about the file size though. The video of the game startup, and a spawn into multiplayer and then end was a 1gig file! Should expect I will upload and delete!

Thanks again.