Many people adore playing games and recording their triumph
moments in “Warcraft”, “World of Tanks”, “Dota”, “Call of Duty”. They often upload gameplay screencasts onYouTube and share video game recordings with friends. If
you want to show off your video games success, check our list of three most
popular screen recorders for video capturing on PC.
HOW TO RECORD
GAMES ON PC
All
3 programs have a similar workflow. Let’s learn quickly how to use them:
Step 1. Install Bandicam, Fraps or Camtasia (see additional info below);
Step 2. Adjust recording settings to your needs;
Step 3. Click the Record button and start the game;
Step 4. Finish playing and hit the Stop button;
Step 5. Save your game play video on your PC, edit or upload it to Twitch, YouTube.
Step 1. Install Bandicam, Fraps or Camtasia (see additional info below);
Step 2. Adjust recording settings to your needs;
Step 3. Click the Record button and start the game;
Step 4. Finish playing and hit the Stop button;
Step 5. Save your game play video on your PC, edit or upload it to Twitch, YouTube.
Now let’s examine each
game capturing software in details.
BANDICAM
Bandicam
is a simple tool to record HD and non-HD videos. The main advantage of the
program is the possibility to choose a video quality and video compression
level. The functions of turning on/off computer sounds and pausing the
recording seem very handy as well. Especially the last one, it will prevent you
from annoying video joining. But be careful while installing
Bandicam. Some unwanted toolbar may stick to your computer. Free version of
Bandicam gives you only 10 minutes of video making and shows constantly
enormous number of alerts.
The bottom line: Bandicam is a game recorder for short but vivid fights.
Game Recording
Many
people adore playing games and recording their triumph moments in “Warcraft”,
“World of Tanks”, “Dota”, “Call of Duty”. They often upload gameplay screencasts onYouTube and share video game recordings with friends. If
you want to show off your video games success, check our list of three most
popular screen recorders for video capturing on PC.
HOW TO RECORD GAMES ON PC
All 3
programs have a similar workflow. Let’s learn quickly how to use them:
Step 1. Install Bandicam, Fraps or Camtasia (see additional info below);
Step 2. Adjust recording settings to your needs;
Step 3. Click the Record button and start the game;
Step 4. Finish playing and hit the Stop button;
Step 5. Save your game play video on your PC, edit or upload it to Twitch, YouTube.
Step 1. Install Bandicam, Fraps or Camtasia (see additional info below);
Step 2. Adjust recording settings to your needs;
Step 3. Click the Record button and start the game;
Step 4. Finish playing and hit the Stop button;
Step 5. Save your game play video on your PC, edit or upload it to Twitch, YouTube.
Now let’s examine each game capturing software in details.
BANDICAM
Bandicam
is a simple tool to record HD and non-HD videos. The main advantage of the
program is the possibility to choose a video quality and video compression
level. The functions of turning on/off computer sounds and pausing the
recording seem very handy as well. Especially the last one, it will prevent you
from annoying video joining. But be careful while installing
Bandicam. Some unwanted toolbar may stick to your computer. Free version of
Bandicam gives you only 10 minutes of video making and shows constantly
enormous number of alerts.
The
bottom line: Bandicam is a game recorder for short but vivid fights.
FRAPS
Fraps is
a universal and multifunctional program with professionally-looking interface.
This is the most popular software to record video games on PC. The program is
easy to use and simple to install. The videos made by Fraps are of high quality
and nice-looking. On the other hand, these videos have quite a big size,
without opportunity to minimize. Plus, Fraps video recording format isn’t
supported by YouTube. So if you need to compress Fraps video or upload Fraps to
YouTube, try Free Video Converter by Freemake. And don’t forget
that like Bandicam, Fraps free version limits video recordings up to 10
minutes.
The
bottom line: though the size of the software itself is small, video
production quality is astonishing.
Download Fraps at official site
CAMTASIA
Camtasia is the third
most popular “game-memorizer” with video editing features. You can decide
whether you need sounds or not and tune the volume. The feature
“minimalization” saves the video quality. And the buttons “remove”, “pause”,
“stop”, seem quite convenient, don’t they? But the quality is a bit poorer than
provided by Fraps. And free Camtasia trial version lasts only 30 days from
installation.
