EVE General Discussion

What applications do y'all use for making instructional videos and such? I would like to maybe someday make videos of myself in action.

Thanks!

why steal when the free options are better?

Do keep in mind that the likes of OBS and the likes of Fraps are different classes of recorders with entirely different purposes in mind.

Not to mention, the question was software to make instructional videos - for which you need an editor, the recorder just produces the source material. You can skip the editor if you're making a shitastic voice-over-unedited-footage type video of course.

Outside of being able to output uncompressed files out-of-the-box for fraps, how are they "different classes of recorders"? From technical standpoint they're the same thing.

Also, +1 for OBS:

all you need is a software that will allow you edit the video while also mixing tracks of audio. if its an instructional, as suggested already, the Movie maker that comes with windows 7 is all you need. (its not pre-installed, you have to get it from MS, its on the live package if i remember correctly)

record the game footage with OBS, then watch it a few times, write down what you want to have on the video. (make a basic flowchart/script) then record with a good microphone an audio track. if you don't have a good mic, then make it. just take a crappy one, make a stand of sorts so that you can speak to it clearly. preferably standing, and far enough so you don't distort sound, but close enough as not to sound like if you were recording inside a tunnel.

then edit both together. trim as much as you can, add titles, text and all that stuff, then export. keep it as simple as possible, no transitions or anything fancy, just fades, and it will look just like anything done on Vegas or more powerful editing software.

editors like Vegas have pretty much the same editing tools as the free tools, but they have a metric ton of extra features that you cant possibly make use of. :p most have to do with media types that can be used as sources, they also interface with specialized hardware. and you wont be using either.

if you really need something beefier, stable and feature rich while also free, try Blender. 90% of it is intended for 3d modelling, but it comes with a built in video editor that's surprisingly good and has very little to envy of more "professional" editors. the problem is, if you have never done video editing it will be a bit overwhelming.

in the other hand you can instead opt for "beefier, UNstable and feature rich" while also easy to use, try VLMC. http://www.videolan.org/vlmc/ think of it as Windows Movie Maker after years of abusing steroids. the great thing about VLMC is the output formats, just like VLC will read any video file, VLMC will output any video format.

Oh, God yes.... I stumbled upon Blender for video editing by accident. I was looking to do some editing and wasn't sure which software covers it, so I googled and one of the results was Blender youtube tutorial. I though, what the hell... isn't blender a 3d rendering tool... but decided to try it out.

Anyway... yes, Blender has some serious video editing capabilities not expected from a free 3d rendering tool. It is, however, a bit hard to learn, but nothing that a few video tutorials won't solve.

Oh god no. Don't ever use freakin moviemaker for anything. Not even your home videos

I use Fraps to record and Adobe Premiere Pro to edit. Sony Vegas is the poor man's alternative to Premiere or Final Cut, but does a good job non the less. I think more people use Sony Vegas over any of the paid editors for obvious financial reasons (Both Adobe and Final Cut can cost up to 1100 dollars I think... )

I use OBS for recording, it even works on my 6 year old computer.
For Editing I use Adobe After Effects, though I begun with Adobe Premire Pro.