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Using fraps to record both game play and speech

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The Nefarious Mongoose:
So I've been making a few test videos with my computer seeing what kind of results I can achieve video and audio wise recording gameplay with fraps, using the inbuilt options to record speech over the top.    I get great results with the video, it all looks great and my computer can compress large files in the  background and still handle my games with no slowdown. 

The audio is a different matter, fraps records the input from my microphone at a much lower level than any other program, including mumble, tf2 in game voice, teamspeak, windows sound recorder etc.  The level is too low even with all my microphone settings maxed and as far as I can find there's no documented way to boost it in fraps, I have no issues being heard in other software unless I move right away from the mic.  Obviously I could record the sound externally and sync the video and audio up in post production, but I'd rather not have to do that as it seems an unnecessary extra stage for the simple type of content I'm trying to produce. In addition I don't have (as yet) any decent video editing software so I'd like to put off buying that if at all possible.   A search of google including posts in the fraps support forum turned up other people with the same issue but no solution aside from maxing settings I already have maxed.

Has anyone at eXtv had similar issues? (I know some of our post produced coverage is made with fraps) and if so how did you overcome them? 

(I'm using a blue snowball mic.   On one of my test videos I recorded TF2 (in game sound turned right down) and switched between speaking in game and speaking in fraps, the in game speech was completely audible, in fraps I was barely registering.)

shlaner:
From what I understand you don't want to record a demo + record while in mumble, correct?

You also don't want to turn your game volume down since you won't hear it in game?

I noticed fraps records the game-sound very loud, but have not tried recording the microphone simultaneously.
I personally just record demos and voice separately since it's not tough to sync the two files together since you're going to have to render the uncompressed files anyway (not sure what you mean by your computer is able to compress it but you don't have the software).

Perhaps you:
1) are recording with a different mic and that it why it has low volume (do you have a headset mic that might be in use even though you think it's your snowball?)
2) can boost the volume output of your microphone in the "Recording Devices" controls

Just some ideas

Naughty T:
I believe you need a virtual audio cable with fraps...

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