There has been much talk here recently about video for various purposes. I haven't paid too much attention since I'm not a candidate for anything like that at this point (video-wise, I'm a techno peasant), but came across this discussion in the Propellerhead User Forum today. I pass it on in case it may help somebody here. There was also an embedded video, but I have no idea how to transfer that here. Props (there's a pun there) to PUF username Knickle. Link, which was omitted from the OP, is at end.

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I was reading a debate on another forum today about paid video capture software. In the discussion an open source project called Open Broadcaster Software (or OBS for short) was mentioned by several people. I had never heard of it, and it's never been mentioned here, so I decided to investigate and report my findings.

NOTE: Unfortunately this will NOT run on Windows XP as it requires DirectX 10 to run. If you have Windows XP you can stop reading now.

OBS looks to be more than just a video capture tool, it's also a live streaming tool. By default it's setup for Streaming. This was the first setting I changed as I just want to dump video directly to the hard drive. It took a couple minutes of tinkering, but I was recording test videos with Reason in no time.

Some observations:
- the Broadcast Mode under Settings should to be changed to "File Output Only"
- OBS was not able to capture the ASIO audio Output from my external sound card (I'm not really surprised). I needed change the audio driver in Reason to a DX driver in order to capture audio from Reason. (it might be worth trying ASIO4ALL to see what happens)
- To capture a monitor or window you need to Add a new "Source" by Right clicking the area under "Sources", and select the source that you want to capture (i.e Monitor Capture).

I give this open source project a thumbs up. If you're looking for a free capture tool for Windows to post a video tutorial, or whatever, this may be what you're looking for. Please Google it and check it out.


http://obsproject.com/

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