Bandicam vs. Fraps - which to buy and setup?

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I've tried 2 recording softwares - Fraps and Bandicam. Both seem to be fine while Bandicam seems to have prebuilt features for YouTube, but which do YOU feel I should buy?

Secondly, I would need to set it up for proper recording- for youtube (1080p while Bandicam has option only for 720p), does anyone know how do to it without too severe quality loss?
 
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I would still recommend bandicam or fraps and record it in full size. Then just do what said above and make it smaller using a program like windows live movie maker.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows-live/movie-maker

You can edit and render videos at 1080p. Also hopefully your videos won't reach 8 mins long. You can use movie maker to make a 15 min recorded time into about 5 mins if you edit it well and make it entertaining.
With any of these programs you cannot go wrong as long as they work (you can find free versions of fraps and bandicam and others) You'll likely edit the video in some software anyway so file size doesn't matter.
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If you ask specifically between Bandicam and Fraps then obviously get Bandicam. It has significantly more useful features in it and much better performance over Fraps.

But if you would be choosing over all which capture software should you better get then I would suggest Dxtory. Quality and Performance wise it's very similar to Bandicam, same price, yet it's a perfect piece of software if you are a commentator since it allows you to record audio into separate audio tracks. Meaning after recording you might notice that your voice is too quiet in comparison to in-game sounds, so you can raise your commentary volume levels without touching the in-game. Or you can mute your commentary entirely if you want to use the gameplay footage for other videos.
 
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Neither. Instead get Open Broadcast Software (OBS). This program makes it so you don't have to edit the footage. You have different scenes that you can switch to that allows you to start the recording with some intro then switch scenes and start recording. You can also use OBS to live stream to twitch. Using OBS you can also setup a camera for facecam, words at the top with your twitter or facebook, or play music in the background.
 
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Okay, thanks for the options. Now my next problem is that I've tested some recording with bandicam. The file size is a bit large to upload to youtube and it seems to stutter a lot during playback.

Obviously I need to convert it to a smaller file size before attempting upload, what would you recommend?
 
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To make the file smaller you are going to have to have a little bit lower quality. What you can do is load it into an editing program (even movie maker) and there are usually different export settings. I know movie maker has a "YouTube" export so that it makes it into a smaller file and then making it a faster upload.
 
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The problem with the software that you have is that it saves in too big of files. Just try using OBS or something else that's free (even though it is slightly more complicated) before you spend ANY money.
 
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I would still recommend bandicam or fraps and record it in full size. Then just do what said above and make it smaller using a program like windows live movie maker.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows-live/movie-maker

You can edit and render videos at 1080p. Also hopefully your videos won't reach 8 mins long. You can use movie maker to make a 15 min recorded time into about 5 mins if you edit it well and make it entertaining.
With any of these programs you cannot go wrong as long as they work (you can find free versions of fraps and bandicam and others) You'll likely edit the video in some software anyway so file size doesn't matter.
 
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I know it's a bit late but in case anyone else is reading this, I'd definitely recommend bandicam over fraps. It just has a much, much, less significant impact on frame rate of games. It also has a VERY useful video recovery tool that can recover the entire video from start to finish if you have a crash, this is compared to other software normally used for recording broken videos which usually only give me maybe 50% of the video if I am lucky. Oh and turn off the box that says "skip recording when frame is not updated" because that will sometimes stop recording during lagspikes and stuff which will cause your video to skip forward and lose any commentary you make during that time.

Also, to the person who mentioned seperate audio tracks, bandicam also allows that, it's inside of the video settings when you select the secondary audio source, there's a box you can tick to record seperate wav files for each source.

I'd also personally discourage using obs as a recording software, it's wonderful for streams and podcasts but for regular videos it'd require you to constantly tinker with the software to get all your intros/outros/layouts which is a hassle and irreversible since it will record like that. It's much better for editing streams live.

As for massive file sizes, use handbrake to compress videos after you've edited them. Format Factory is also an option for compression, it is a lot simpler but the tradeoff is usually a significantly larger compressed file. You can also shrink how large the recorded file is by using a lower quality codec, such as the mpeg-1 codec if you don't mind the tradeoff in video quality which isn't too noticeable anyway if you're gonna put it on youtube. (I usually record 1 hour-ish sessions of minecraft, with the mpeg-1 codec it's about 3.4gb, with the motion jpeg codec it's about 80gb)
 
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