Ok, got the Hotkey for Video Capture to work... Thanks Lax.
Now that I got the video capture to work, I noticed that the recorded/playback gamma is dark. But in game picture is nice and bright. I know its not WinEQ product because I notice the darkness even when I take a screen shot. Nice and bright in game, very dark when viewing .jpg files out of the game. I have NVIDIA GeForce 5500 graphic card and when I crank up the gamma, brightness, etc on the nview desktop manager, my desktop is extremely bright, but the game looks great because I have WinEQ set to keep the game from adjusting my desktop gamma. Is there an easier way to do this or do I have to set up my desktop profile to have it set at default during non-EQ time and then switch to a saved EQ Profile to crank up the gamma when I 'm about to play EQ every time?
Gamma problems with Video Capture
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Good question. I dont think I know the answer, though. The best suggestion I have is to make sure your video driver is up to date.
The problem with the darkness in the video is that some effects, such as antialiasing and apparently gamma, are applied late in the rendering process. The problem with that is that the fast ways of capturing screenshots (which is essentially what video capture is, too) will not capture those effects. A little snippet from the DirectX docs:
The only other way to fix the problem is probably going to be to get the gamma effect to apply earlier. I have no idea how easy this is, but I'll look into it when I find the time.
The problem with the darkness in the video is that some effects, such as antialiasing and apparently gamma, are applied late in the rendering process. The problem with that is that the fast ways of capturing screenshots (which is essentially what video capture is, too) will not capture those effects. A little snippet from the DirectX docs:
... so as it says, there is only one way to get an antialiased screenshot (and apparently gamma), and it's very slow, by design. Way too slow for video capture.This method is the only way to capture an antialiased screen shot.
This function is very slow, by design, and should not be used in any performance-critical path.
The only other way to fix the problem is probably going to be to get the gamma effect to apply earlier. I have no idea how easy this is, but I'll look into it when I find the time.