Question / Help How To Use Replay Buffer To Create A Montage?

[Tinklepop560]

I've been wanting to make a montage for a very long time but it's very hard to get clips by recording at the exact moment then hitting stop recording, then looking at the video to check if it's actually correct. That process takes way to long and is too hard. I noticed there was a replay buffer option. If I set the replay buffer for 10 seconds and I use it for 20 seconds would it only record the last 10 seconds of it? Because whenever I try to use it and I set it to use it for 10 seconds and I hit stop it saves it all. And if I hit start recording from buffer it still records it all. Is there any way to use the replay buffer the way I want to go. The way where it records forever but only records a couple seconds back instead of the whole video? If so please tell me how to do it :).

 

[dping]

I've been wanting to make a montage for a very long time but it's very hard to get clips by recording at the exact moment then hitting stop recording, then looking at the video to check if it's actually correct. That process takes way to long and is too hard. I noticed there was a replay buffer option. If I set the replay buffer for 10 seconds and I use it for 20 seconds would it only record the last 10 seconds of it? Because whenever I try to use it and I set it to use it for 10 seconds and I hit stop it saves it all. And if I hit start recording from buffer it still records it all. Is there any way to use the replay buffer the way I want to go. The way where it records forever but only records a couple seconds back instead of the whole video? If so please tell me how to do it :).

replay buffer just records the set amount of time that you specify. Once your 10 second is up, if you dont stop and start it again, that moment will be overwritten by new footage.

 

[FerretBomb]

As I understand it, the Replay Buffer is like a retroactive record button. You hit it, it saves X seconds from the past to disk. So if you did something cool and want to save it, you hit the button afterward and hope the replay buffer was long enough to reach back to the start of it. Why it eats RAM, it's keeping the last X seconds of video in system memory, ready to be dumped to disk.

Also why it's a good idea to use the $T filename variable, which timestamps it with the date, hour, minute and second, so you don't even up overwriting any previous replays.

 

[Schyler]

Use shadowplay