Fraps Recording--very dark

[Springheel]

Anyone know any tricks with FRAPs? For some reason when I record video it's very dark...no detail is picked up from any ambient light at all; anything not well lit is totally black.

[SiyahParsomen]

That's odd. I use fraps too and it captures what I see exactly in game both screenshots and videos. I have v.3.4.6.

[ungoliant]

is it possible that fraps is picking up your desktop brightness/gamma/contrast settings instead of your in-game settings?

[Springheel]

Hmm, could be. I wouldn't even know where to adjust my desktop gamma settings, as I would normally just use the monitor settings.

[SiyahParsomen]

is it possible that fraps is picking up your desktop brightness/gamma/contrast settings instead of your in-game settings?

 

They are on default on my settings. I found this, hope it helps:

 

http://frapsforum.com/threads/fix-dark-fraps-videos.758/

[demagogue]

You might also be able to bump up the gamma with Premier post-production.

[Springheel]

I tried using the gamma setting in post, but I can't get it to do what I want it to do. I may need to play with it more as there are lots of variables, though.

[demagogue]

If it's any consolation, if you were making a Thief2 video there's a weird quirk with Fraps that records it on the darkest gamma setting practically blacking out half of it and you always have to bump it back up in post, a tip I got from another guy recording playthrus (FenPhoenix).

 

Actually now that I look back at your OP, I guess it's probably the same issue. ... In which case the direct answer is this is a known quirk of Fraps that, AFAI & Fen know, we couldn't find a fix in Fraps and did it post. IIRC I asked him how he recorded in the comments of one of his videos and he explained everything including the gamma problem, but hard to find it now. (Edit: I found that video, Episode0 of his 7 Sisters video, but it just has to do with Thief2 & his video card, not really relevant to this.)