deane | A Bit Of Video Geekery

Videos take up a lot of disk space so today I went out and bought a new 2 terabyte internal drive for my system. The new drive is about 25% faster than the existing one, which will help when capturing video from the screen, but the bigger win is simply in having a second, separate physical drive. That means that I can record audio and video to separate drives which reduces contention. The result of this is that the frame rate at which I can record 480p video (480 = 854x480 resolution, p = progressive, i.e. non-interlaced) jumps from about 22 frames per second to 29. That makes for smoother video. Even better, the jerkiness and lag that I was experiencing in the game while recording it is almost completely gone.

The trick still doesn't give my system enough oomph to record 720p video (1280x720) at a decent frame rate, but at least now my 480p vids will be clean. Yay!