Can you save during a recording and continue recording later?
Or would you have to make a few 'episodes' to do that?
BTW, ctrl-q to quit during playback.
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Re: Recordings
As soon as you enter the save screen recording is stopped. Because RTC records *every* mouse movement and key press, if it didn't then when you played the game back, it would save the game possibly over-writing an existing save game that you wanted.TheMormegil wrote:Can you save during a recording and continue recording later?
Or would you have to make a few 'episodes' to do that?
There is however nothing stopping you making multiple recordings during a game - so start recording, save, start recording again (to a new file), save, etc etc...
Anyway, saving during a recording is cheating isn't it - surely you're meant to do it all in one go
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CSBwin does allow saves in the middle of a recording
and does, indded, overwrite the save file if it exists.
I always considered this a feature because:
If I delete a save file halfway through the game then
I can recreate it by replying the recording. If the
recording has several saves into the same savefile
then I edit the recording and truncate it after the
save that I want to recreate. A kind of backup of
all the save files created during play.
Also, I can edit the recording to remove the
saves if I want to release the movie to the public
in a 'cleaner' state that will NOT erase any save
files on anyone else's machine.
I also arranged that editing the recording leaves
indelible marks so that anyone looking at the recording
can see that it was edited.
Of course there is also a program available to splice
together the recordings from several sessions to make
one long movie and those splices also leave
indelible marks in the resulting recording.
and does, indded, overwrite the save file if it exists.
I always considered this a feature because:
If I delete a save file halfway through the game then
I can recreate it by replying the recording. If the
recording has several saves into the same savefile
then I edit the recording and truncate it after the
save that I want to recreate. A kind of backup of
all the save files created during play.
Also, I can edit the recording to remove the
saves if I want to release the movie to the public
in a 'cleaner' state that will NOT erase any save
files on anyone else's machine.
I also arranged that editing the recording leaves
indelible marks so that anyone looking at the recording
can see that it was edited.
Of course there is also a program available to splice
together the recordings from several sessions to make
one long movie and those splices also leave
indelible marks in the resulting recording.