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Flameswath

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What program should I use to get the best uniform screenshots from LCS?
« on: November 11, 2012, 03:32:58 pm »
Been trying to find a good way to have clean, uniformly taken screenshots of my game of LCS but I don't know what to use. Right now I'm using the windows snipping tool but that always leaves me with a little bit of extra I have to trim off. What are some good recommendations?
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Re: What program should I use to get the best uniform screenshots from LCS?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2012, 10:09:39 pm »
I can recommand Bandicam. It's like the best of every screen capture tool. You can easily tell it to target a window, then press a hotkey to take a screenshot. It's shareware, but the free version only has two limits: watermark on videos (not images), and maximum recording of 10 minutes at a time.
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Re: What program should I use to get the best uniform screenshots from LCS?
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2012, 05:44:46 am »
Alt+PrntScrn takes a screen-shot of the active window.  :)
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Re: What program should I use to get the best uniform screenshots from LCS?
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2012, 10:01:15 am »
Greenshot is very cool, I used it with almost everything.
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Re: What program should I use to get the best uniform screenshots from LCS?
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2012, 06:11:49 pm »
Quote from: Yannanth on November 13, 2012, 04:21:38 pm
I wish people just took the time to learn a bit about codecs and use CamStudio instead, so I don't see bloody watermarks on every YouTube video I go on. :(

I find CamStudio is pretty terrible, even when you set it up just-so. I have gone to significant effort, including moderately exhaustive research, to find a combination of settings that will get as much as 30 FPS on even a small window, without success. I use it for LCS, but I can only do that because it doesn't need a high framerate.

The demo for Fraps, on the other hand, works great out of the box, though the time limit makes it pretty much useless. To the extent that CamStudio doesn't actually work, and other solutions do, I can little blame people for using paid or watermarked alternatives.
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Re: What program should I use to get the best uniform screenshots from LCS?
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2012, 06:23:40 pm »
Thanks everyone who posted their suggestions. I decided to go with Bandicam as it was exactly what I needed.
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