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Question

What's a good free desktop recording program?

May 26, 2013 10:37AM PDT

I'll be starting an internet video series on Youtube and am having trouble settling on a good desktop recording program to get me started. I'm trying to find one that can record things like games smoothly at decent quality without hogging system resources. It will also need to allow me to record commentary with my headset in addition game audio.

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May 26, 2013 10:43AM PDT

While FRAPS is pretty nice you find gamers gripe about it taking a few frames per second away.
Bob

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What's a good free desktop recording program?
May 26, 2013 1:16PM PDT

I looked into Fraps but it looks like you have to pay for it if you want to record more than 30 seconds at a time. I'd want to be sure it can meet my needs before I invest any money.

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Then the search continues.
May 27, 2013 12:17AM PDT

I've seen this question many times and the answers always come back to the usual. I'm unsure why you can't see what folk found before. That is, you seem to be beating down the same path as thousands have.
Bob

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Free desktop recording program
Jun 5, 2013 5:02PM PDT

For beginners, SmartPixel video recording editing software might be a good choice. I'm also a gamer, I plays Dota 2 , I use SmartPixel to record my games and upload to youtube, it has a pic to pic mode allows you demonstrate will playing game, that's quite awesome. but the free edition only allow 10 mins free video recording, so I updated for $6.9.