I want to clip some of my HotS replays. How do I clip HotS replay?
OBS Studio works quite fine for the capture, you should also look up the various hotkeys to hide UI elements to make it look better.
EDIT: Sami in 3,2,1 with details on OBS and capturing …
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Use OBS, it’s free and good quality
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I’m lazy and use the low (I think?) quality built in Xbox game capture thing in windows 10.
Mostly because I don’t have to mess with any external programs.
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I’m thinking of making how 2 highlight thread at some point but sure.
Anyways about a year ago OBS Studio now provides a built in auto settings set up based on couple of questions that it asks and checking your PC specs to see what is the most suited settings for you to avoid your hardware from committing suicide due CPU overheating or something.
Anyways…
Setting up the Scenes and Sources
To record literally anything, we require a scene and a source first.
Of course I’m not gonna go in details over scene but We are gonna focus on Sources for most of the part.
To make a source we right click anywhere in the box.
Display Capture is no brainer, captures anything that appears on screen, and alt tabbing between games will result in pretty much capturing anything.
If you want to capture a specific game, then “Game Capture” comes in that place.
For Game Capture you do following:
- Open Heroes of the Storm
- Right Click Sources → Add → Game Capture
- Give it a name and click ok
- In the new window that got open afterwards, in Mode select “Capture specific window” and in the Window mode that just appeared fight the heroes of the storm application THE GAME MUST BE OPEN FIRST BEFORE DOING SO OR ELSE IT WON’T APPEAR (Optional:) You can also make OBS not capture your cursor before pressing Ok.
\ - Alt Tab back in the game, give it about 5 seconds and go back to OBS if you see something preview like this:
You are all set with that part, now comes the next part.
Settings
tl;dr try this preset
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Resolution: 1920 x 1080 30/60 FPS
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Encoder: NVENC (If you have Nividia GPU very recommended since HotS only uses CPU to run hence why it runs on potatoes pretty much why? Because this is GPU intensive and gives the CPU a lot of space to run the game too) otherwise choose x264 (CPU intensive)
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Video Quality: Same as Stream or High Quality meduim file size
- If Same as Stream set the bitrate in Video Bitrate to about 5000 - 6000 so the quality doesn’t look like trash.
- Else if you choose High Quality Medium file size then Video Bitrate does nothing as it uses a made preset for this type of setting.
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Audio Quality 160 or 192
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Format: MP4
end of tl;dr
I believe this pretty minimal but I would love to highlight some notes here mostly in Output section which plays the biggest role.
I think the image explains most of the settings you need to play with to find what is best for you but I want note few of them:
Encoder:
There’s two usual types you will see in the encoder section which are x264 and NVENC, x264 is CPU heavy encoding and NVENC is GPU encoding, in other words this setting makes OBS to choose which type of hardware you want to use for recording, do you want to use your Control Process Unity to do the work or your Graphic Card?
Recording Quality:
Same as Stream:
Takes into consideration of the bitrate you have in Video Bitrate, as a reminder the higher the bitrate the higher the video quality will be, the lower the bitrate the worse it becomes, it is recommended to have high bitrate of 6000~ when it comes to games like MOBA and 8000 - 10000 for FPS games.
In short, if the game is high quality and has a lot of movement I would recommend high bitrate as an output or else the quality would look bad for the video, if the game is low quality, very little movement like a chess board like MOBA then go for lower bitrate.
I am only saying this just so you can save up space and time from uploading these highlights and avoiding overworking your PC for no reason.
Anything that is not Same as Stream™
I mean the other options provided next to “Same as Stream”, they are self explanatory they are made presets using different bitrates that is set from the Video Bitrate in the settings above.
Video Tab
Set up the video resolution and how many frames, that’s all in that tab.
Hotkeys
This recommended, you can set up a hotkey that can be used to start and stop recording.
I pretty much use only for Start/Stop Recording as I never stream honestly, you can set up the hotkey twice so that you can start and stop it with one click of a button.
And that’s all pretty much, if you have any questions feel free to ask, OBS is not a hard software its really easy to record anything you want, its recommended by a lot of Youtubers and Twitch Streamers its considered lag free, very good for low tier Computers/Laptops and heavily costumizable with a lot of plugins that are community made.
If you have any questions feel free to ask.
I don’t have anything hots related atm because all the replays are pretty boooring so you get this in the mean time.
Settings used for the above:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 60 FPS
Encoder: NVENC (GPU Intensive only in Nividia cards)
Video Quality: Same as Stream | Video Bitrate: 3000
Audio Quality: 256
Format: MP4
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yeah. I’ll stick with Xbox Game Bar.
WAYYYYYYYYY simpler.
I’m sure it’s a bit lower quality, but uh… nothing that 99% of people would notice.
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-windows/social/record-game-clips-game-bar-windows-10
OBS provides all these settings at first launch, I just expanded upon it because some may not find it optimal.
Same goes to Xbox game bar that is pretty trash the last time I used it.
yeah, but it doesn’t need to be installed, and does the same thing.
Skipping a download and install and setting things up yeah.
Skipping the good and using the half working software that provides barely what I wanted when I used it, got it.
it lets you capture the screen… pretty easily in my experience.
WTH else do you want? XD
I want a software that is not half quality.
I want a software that actually doesn’t lag my game.
I want a software that records in high quality.
I want a software that I can specify which window I want.
And of course, I can customize all of these at any moment.
That’s what OBS does, Windows 10 Xbox Game Bar does none of those.
You can enjoy your terrible software as much as you want, I just provided a constantly updated open source software that does a better job in provide what the user actually wants than what Microsoft tries.
**and being smart and drunk i decided to edit my post apparently. Good Job Planar. Good job. Facepalm
probably a hardware issue.
I did have issues with it recording on one laptop, but the other 3 laptops and 1 desktop I’ve used it on have functioned 100% fine.
Hardware issues will always pop up with Windows. If you don’t have the hardware issue, and the inbuilt software meets your needs, there is absolutely no reason to bother going outside of that inbuilt software.
And yes–I did miss the case of someone having a hobby that involves using high quality video. Mostly because most people who do so upload to youtube… Which wrecks the quality anyways.
Anyone who shares direct files, or uses websites that allow “lossless/less lossy” uploads OBS probably makes sense.
But again, “I just want to record some gameplay clips”… the faster simpler solution that works just as well in 99% of cases is probably the better one.
But the truth is most people overestimate their needs on things–and I include myself.
When I was 14 I was asked what wine I wanted when eating out with my parents (USA is very strict on it’s 21) and most people guess I’m 1.5-2x my age… granted, mostly in person.
So I’m used to it… Probably good I don’t really care.
I heard/read peeps use screencast o matic or shareX, but I dunno details beyond that.
some gaming peripherals (like keyboards) can make use of the microsoft game bar (to get around knowing the shortcuts for start/stop whatev)
ShareX is for screenshotting not video capturing, it has gif creation but its not recommended to use that at all for highlights.
The software you provided barely even works, I have been spamming Windows + G as the support page says even did a hard restart for my PC and played with my own settings to get it work and nothing has been happen, no window appear no “record icon” happening, it looks this “provided software” doesn’t even work for those who want to use.
Also you are very delusional if you think using an external software has only an advantage if you do so for money, recording can also be a hobby this includes some expanding on it by using softwares that are actually optimal, functioning and overall better than what is provided in your OS.
No offense but you literally sound like my dad.