Offline Video Capture
It has struck me that sometimes it may be necessary to record video without it directly going anywhere I.E not live streaming. So it can therefore be put on websites such as YouTube or other video hosting sites. It is possible to use Xsplit for this job but as it is better used as a streaming utility, Fraps is considered a better alternative.
Fraps is a extremely simple video capture tool that captures video straight of screen, it is seemingly preferred for capturing footage of games as it has very low system requirements, it doesn’t have to preview anything or render anything. It captures video in blocks of roughly 3 minutes.
I have found that the best way to capture with Fraps is to use a external hard drive. Simply as recording onto the same drive that the programme is running on will always affect performance. Fraps starts recording using a single hotkey that the user can pre allocate.
