I hope you don't mind me putting my two cents in. After years of using Fraps I came across Action! mentioned in steam. After looking around the website I decided to throw some money their way and haven't looked back. This is the website http://mirillis.com/en/products/action.html . Because of this topic I quickly exported a video that I had recently done. I haven't even experimented with the exporting and what is the best so I just used 1080i and uploaded it to youtube. The raw video is 7.42 gigs which is actually smaller than if I used fraps. Exporting it in 1080i reduced it down to 297MB and that is what I uploaded to youtube. There are some fantastic features in this software and so many options. You not only have game recording but also active desktop and active desktop region. Check out the screenshots and features over at the website, I personally believe it is well worth the money. By the way, that's not what I really sound like. I like developing characters and this is one that I'm working on, Jake and Jake Jr aka JJ. This actually looks better at youtube and remember this has not been through any video editor. It's just a straight export and upload