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First post, by Veloxi

Posted on 2013-01-30, 03:41

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Hello everyone, how are you? My name is Brian, and I'm something of a long-time lurker. 😀

I'm writing today, however, because I could use some assistance. I'm trying to make narrated let's play videos of the DOS based TIE Fighter collector's CD using FRAPS, and while the game runs smooth as silk when using both DOSBox Game Launcher as well as loading the game manually, turning on video recording in FRAPS slows the game to a crawl.

I'm therefore wondering if anyone has been successful in capturing audio and video using FRAPS with TIE Fighter. It's worked fine with other DOS games, so I'm baffled as to why it won't with this one. I've tried different CPU and display settings and to no avail.

Any advice or assistance would be most welcome. Thanks for your time in advance. 😀

If it has a spaceship in it, I will play it.

Reply 1 of 7, by bloodbat

Posted on 2013-01-30, 07:42

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Why not use DosBox's built in recording?

Reply 2 of 7, by Veloxi

Posted on 2013-01-30, 15:52

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Because I'd like to narrate it as I play, and I don't believe DOSBox's excellent built-in video recording allows for that. 😒

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Reply 3 of 7, by Dominus

Posted on 2013-01-30, 16:21

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Run two recordings. Dosbox and your mic

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Reply 4 of 7, by Veloxi

Posted on 2013-01-30, 16:46

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Hhmmm, this may sound stupid, but I've never done that before. 😉 Might you have any suggestions for software that could help record the audio and mix it with the video?

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Reply 5 of 7, by Dominus

Posted on 2013-01-30, 16:49

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I think *any* video editor allows mixing audio and video. As for recording, I'm not on Windows anymore but there are simple audio recorder available, I think.

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Reply 6 of 7, by bloodbat

Posted on 2013-01-30, 18:47

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You probably want to mix them after the fact...why? So you can tweak audio levels and such (maybe use a comb filter so you'll sound clear). Look at the ADG or Lazy Game Reviews videos: they lower volume when speaking (for a good reason: frequencies do clash with each other and you end up sounding like a mess). You *could* get away with, maybe, a bit more volume from the game if using a comb filter. You could use Audacity for recording your voice over and mixing (though you'll have to extract the audio from your video, virtualdub can help you there).

Reply 7 of 7, by Veloxi

Posted on 2013-01-30, 19:14

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Bloodbat, that puts me in the right direction. Thanks! 😀 Never done this before, hope I don't suck at it. 😀

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