Game movies

[hazz]

I need a program for joining videos and cutting parts out.
Also I need a program for recording in World of Warcraft. I need those things to make a WoW movie

[kush]

For the movie capping, try FRAPS - http://www.fraps.com/.
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Benchmarking Software - See how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.

Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want to capture the screen. Your screen captures are also automatically named and timestamped.

Realtime Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 1152x864 and 100 frames per second!
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http://www.fraps.com/faq.php
...Apparently it records in a lightly compressed AVI container (proprietary codec tho), IOW you should be able to open it up in pretty much any frameserver or encoder and put it in the format you desire (ie: XVID/DIVX/MPEG2) @ the quality you want (and resize/etc/etc).

As far as cutting parts out, if you used fraps, then with whatever you used to edit it down later on, yo could just set the in/out points to the areas of the video you actually want - no encoding needless frames...Joining - well, it's been a while here, so, I can only suggest to look thru the editing tools section and see what comes up.

[whitejremiah]

if your intending on using avi, you can use virtualdub for joining clips just by opening the first clip, going append avi segment, point to the second clip, third clip, ect, then direct stream copying everything into a new file....