Xsplit Is Making Me Mad

Celsus said:
I use Mirillis action, best program I've had experience with, it has options inside that allow out put in your webcam without having to add it in, in post. It also doesn't eat up FPS like fraps or many of the normal recording material (if you get it don't buy it on steam, it has this weird thing that makes it hard for people to join your games).
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The only issue with using Action's built-in webcam deal is it doesn't give you anything resembling flexibility on it. Can't crop, resize, position, mirror, or really do anything. Just pick which corner and it puts the full thing there. Kind of a pain when you have a widescreen camera and just want a tight zoom in on your face.

Mirillis Action does one wonderful thing (DXtory as well, but DXtory doesn't record desktops so it's out): it lets you record the microphone to a separate audio track in itself. It makes syncing the game up with your facecam SUPER easy. Whether you do it via a webcam or a camcorder, just slap the video on top of the game/mic file in your editor and line up the camera audio with the mic audio, remove camera audio. Done. Boom. Your vid is perfectly lined up.

I've tried so many pieces of editing software, but Action ended up being the one to keep (although I have XSplit around for streaming).
 
SomeGuyDude said:
The only issue with using Action's built-in webcam deal is it doesn't give you anything resembling flexibility on it. Can't crop, resize, position, mirror, or really do anything. Just pick which corner and it puts the full thing there. Kind of a pain when you have a widescreen camera and just want a tight zoom in on your face.

Mirillis Action does one wonderful thing (DXtory as well, but DXtory doesn't record desktops so it's out): it lets you record the microphone to a separate audio track in itself. It makes syncing the game up with your facecam SUPER easy. Whether you do it via a webcam or a camcorder, just slap the video on top of the game/mic file in your editor and line up the camera audio with the mic audio, remove camera audio. Done. Boom. Your vid is perfectly lined up.

I've tried so many pieces of editing software, but Action ended up being the one to keep (although I have XSplit around for streaming).
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O that will be nice having the audio as a seperate thing. I tend to speak pretty quiet so I need to be able to up the volume on just my voice. I will have to try that program out soon then
 
Brinkbabe91 said:
O that will be nice having the audio as a seperate thing. I tend to speak pretty quiet so I need to be able to up the volume on just my voice. I will have to try that program out soon then
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It's a godsend. Pop everything over into Premiere (or whatever you may use) and then I can compress/normalize the microphone track while simultaneously lowering the game audio so I get the right balance.

XSplit is great, and I do mean great, for streaming. It gives you a LOT of flexibility so you can position the webcam perfectly, set levels on the fly, see what you're doing as it goes up, the works. For recording, though, it is really sub-par. Ironically, it's very INFLEXIBLE for recording because however that file comes out is just how it comes out.

My big thing is the aforementioned flexibility, and that means having all my elements (game, webcam, mic) as separate files and tracks, that way if any one of them comes out a bit unexpectedly, I can fix things in the editor. XSplit was a case where it was set-it-and-forget-it when things were right. When they weren't, it was a nightmare.
 
Brinkbabe91 said:
Thanks for the suggestion :) I think I need to figure out if it's the program or my computer before I lookn

Saweet! :)
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Sorry I couldn't be more help, I've never used Xsplit before. But for reference they offer a demo that's pretty much the full thing with a watermark if you can't get it to work properly ^.^
 
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