Recording games/making clips

Prokorov · Post #1 » by **Prokorov** » Sat Nov 26, 2016 4:48 pm

Been looking for something to do this for a while. I subscribe to league pass and have access to all the condensed replays of the games once they end. I want to make clips from individual plays like some of the youtube clips we see. Does anyone know how this is done?

I've tried some software, but it makes it super choppy. Is there a way to download the stream to a file and then edit from there? what do people use to record the games?

All Nets · Post #2 » by **All Nets** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 6:35 pm

How much free time do you have?

I spoke briefly about this in my other "Coach Atkinson's Offensive Schemes" thread, basically there are two ways to go about making gifs/youtube clips.

1. You have a streaming service which allows for replay, especially fine-tuned replay. You'll need to download a desktop recorder, and all of the high quality ones without a watermark will cost money. The high end solution is Camtasia, but you can go with a cheaper alternative like bandicam or frps (used by gamers to live stream or record) and still get good quality.

Full screen your league pass, replay parts where you want to capture and desktop record. This is probably the best way to extract several single clips from one game. But the quality won't be as great, although for discussion purposes it should work fine. Then upload those small mp4s into gfy, youtube, whatever.

2. Download full games (or quarters of games depending on offering) from a torrent site (you'll have to research via google) and then edit and splice the way you want in a video editor such as Adobe Premiere, or maybe something as simple as windows movie maker.

This is the best way to get high quality, professional looking, footage, but also more time consuming and will consume more bandwidth.

MrDollarBills · Post #3 » by **MrDollarBills** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 8:46 pm

Adobe Premiere is excellent for editing footage and it's what I use. Small learning curve if you're not used to it but there are plenty of youtube tutorials.

You can get a monthly subscription for adobe's entire line of products for about 49 bucks a month. its worth it if you do stuff like graphic design, video, music. etc.

Prokorov · Post #4 » by **Prokorov** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 9:06 pm

how does it record the games? do you need the game to be streaming while you record it?

MrDollarBills · Post #5 » by **MrDollarBills** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 9:10 pm

Prokorov wrote:how does it record the games? do you need the game to be streaming while you record it?

I'm not sure that Premiere Pro has a recording option. There are other programs out there though specifically geared towards recording streaming video. Premiere is more so for you to edit clips and make video presentations.

Prokorov · Post #6 » by **Prokorov** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 9:25 pm

MrDollarBills wrote:
Prokorov wrote:how does it record the games? do you need the game to be streaming while you record it?

I'm not sure that Premiere Pro has a recording option. There are other programs out there though specifically geared towards recording streaming video. Premiere is more so for you to edit clips and make video presentations.

yeah im more in need of recording the games. i have league pass so i can stream them on my computer... just need to record it. or if there is a way to just extract the video from nba league pass website that would be even better

MrDollarBills · Post #7 » by **MrDollarBills** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 10:06 pm

google streaming recording programs, there's a few out there i think.