Screen Capture Poll -- HW or SW?

Musicvid wrote on 11/14/2019, 11:33 AM

Is it FHD or 4k?

Hardware screen capture at high GPU bitrates?

-- or --

Software capture at supportable CPU bitrates?

Why?

(Hint : "It looks better" is not a reason. Neither is, "Everybody does it,")

Comments

j-v wrote on 11/14/2019, 12:13 PM

Are you talking about Vegas Screencapture?

Musicvid wrote on 11/14/2019, 12:23 PM

No.

Marco. wrote on 11/14/2019, 12:26 PM

FHD or 4k? I usually adopt my screen capture frame size to the current window or region I capture. This differs from about 240 x 240 up to FHD. Software, FlashBack Pro.

Why? Sorted to be my best compromise of the given feature set, recording performance, codec usuability and price.

Musicvid wrote on 11/14/2019, 12:32 PM

It's what I do, neither of us being acknowledged gamers. Looking for diverse responses, probably no consensus here.

j-v wrote on 11/14/2019, 1:43 PM

On my desktop and on laptop I use OBS with these hardware encoder settings

this video settings for bitrate and kind of encoder

on laptop canvas is also FHD.
Why? The best for me untill now. I use these encoder settings in Vegas Pro 17 after editing.

fr0sty wrote on 11/14/2019, 1:46 PM

I use OBS. Usually default settings.

Musicvid wrote on 11/14/2019, 2:00 PM

@fr0sty

Are you using hardware or software encoder in OBS? Bitrates?

Are you gaming, or doing demos, etc.?

Musicvid wrote on 11/14/2019, 2:03 PM

@Lift is a new user with a very inquisitive mind, who is testing game capture using available HW and SW encoders.

fr0sty wrote on 11/14/2019, 2:06 PM

Default settings, usually, which is software IIRC. I usually only use it for quick screen caps to show a bug happening or something like that. The one time I did use it for a production, we had to fast-turnaround some concerts to a pre-encoded 6mbps 1080p file (they needed the files to be small, quality wasn't a huge concern), so I used OBS studio and NVENC to do the encode. It did the trick nicely.

fifonik wrote on 11/14/2019, 3:02 PM

Frame size: Native screen resolution OR program's window resolution (I do not care much about standards in last case as it will be edited locally any way)

Encoder: Software

Software: Captura. Switched from CamStudio that I used to use previously.

Musicvid wrote on 11/14/2019, 6:11 PM

Wonder where the gamers are?

fifonik wrote on 11/14/2019, 6:35 PM

They are definitely not sitting in the VP forum. They are probably in game or in their games' forums and coming here only when they have VP issues :)

Robert Johnston wrote on 11/15/2019, 3:16 PM

FHD or less using Mirillis Action. I've used for years. I let it encode with Intel QSV. Initially I wanted capture software that could capture Google Earth's spinning globe. This was the best I tried. It had the least dropped frames.