Question about Game Capture

Artech93

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Hi there, my plan is to open a channel and to be a lets player on my language because our area is poor, but i have a question about recording, i have a gaming pc with a cpu i5 6600k and a gtx 970 gpu?
do i really need a game capture card or i can do it with apps?
i dont wanna downscale the quality i also need a front camera!
 
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You can use ShadowPlay. I'm using ShadowPlay for last 2 years on my youtube channel which is primary income. You can try using manual recording, 1080p60fps, 30k bitrate. Why 30k ? Because you want to re-render that quality in Adobe Premiere/Vegas to add watermark, edit scenes etc.

If you want to use facecam, I recommend using OBS software, set recording resolution to something like 640x480 or even less (calculate in photoshop what size is camera and record in that resolution), since once when you record yourself you just add that in upper track in rendering software and viola, you have facecam.

Now..ShadowPlay will not use more then 1-2fps, OBS you are recording on purpose in very small resolution (with let's say 3000 bitrate) and...

dsr07mm

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You can use ShadowPlay. I'm using ShadowPlay for last 2 years on my youtube channel which is primary income. You can try using manual recording, 1080p60fps, 30k bitrate. Why 30k ? Because you want to re-render that quality in Adobe Premiere/Vegas to add watermark, edit scenes etc.

If you want to use facecam, I recommend using OBS software, set recording resolution to something like 640x480 or even less (calculate in photoshop what size is camera and record in that resolution), since once when you record yourself you just add that in upper track in rendering software and viola, you have facecam.

Now..ShadowPlay will not use more then 1-2fps, OBS you are recording on purpose in very small resolution (with let's say 3000 bitrate) and because of that that will not even be noticable when you are recording.

Cons for not using good quality capture card in this case might be.. You need to render your video and add separated facecam on upper track in render software, and you need to sync camera and your commentary to go along with game (which takes from me approx 2mins of work once when you get your habbit of using hotkeys properly). For example you put on Numpad5 both OBS and ShadowPlay to start recordings..so you have synced without need to move couple mm left or right on track to sync your lips with commentary.

I also use Audacity for crystal clear mic quality on 15$ headphones.

So it's possible. Quality will stay more then good, believe me.
 
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Artech93

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Feb 26, 2016
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I am very thankful that you have taken some of your time go give me an answer, i will try OBS becasue facecam i heard is very important, i would also watch your channel.
and one more Thing if i Play games like CSGO it will decrase my FPS for sure and i dont like it :S , thats why i am asking for game capture Card.
 

dsr07mm

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If you are recording ShadowPlay will not take anything. OBS might take 10fps but you aren't going to notice that. Facecam recording is barely noticable due to small resolution and bitrate.

No problem, always glad to help if you have any questions further on let me know.
 

Artech93

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Feb 26, 2016
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Fraps and Shadowplay they are have problem with my sound...
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They are detecting these drivers from nVidia graphic card, i disabled i uninstalled them, by restart they installed by themselves i cant find a way, maybe just that if i uninstall graphic drivers...

and by OBS, it doesnt record with a quality that fraps and shadowplay records, the colors are not so fine and mic is terrible wtf :??: