How much lag is too much?

2006-06-25 09:23:27 pm

Pefectionist wannabe

Hello, I'm working on a speedrun for Little Big Adventure (relentless) and I'm capturing the run with Camtasia.
My problem is that the videos I get are a little bit laggy - nothing much, mostly when a lot is going on on screen and I jump or change mode. Kinda looks like a frame or two is missing.
Now, I'm a complete beginner to recording but my own fiddeling around with camtasias settings doesn't seem to help the quality.
I've recorded around half the game now and I decided to stop here and check if the quality is good enough.
Is it too laggy and if it is - what can I do about it?

I made a short 16s clip where you can see what you think, also the first segment is on youtube.

Here is the files:
http://rapidshare.de/files/24107039/Laggy.avi.html

I hope to complete the run soon and it would be kinda tough to know then that the quality was too bad so, please tell me what you think.

Thread title:

ballofsnow

Edit history:

ballofsnow: 2006-06-25 10:33:34 pm

2006-06-25 10:32:59 pm

I've never played the game, but it doesn't look too laggy. I've seen worse.

Mkt2015

2006-06-26 02:09:56 am

MGS for PS1 forever.

I can see the question of skipped frames. A good question would be if the game does that normally. Considering it's pretty old I wouldn't doubt it.

KaThogh

2006-06-26 05:41:56 am

Pefectionist wannabe

It definatly looks more choppy than what I see on my screen while playing in that clip, but except for these parts and jumping the difference isn't that great.
But the quality is ok then?

Mkt2015

2006-06-26 07:04:33 am

MGS for PS1 forever.

The quality looked fine to me, but I'm not the end all of quality questions.

KaThogh

2006-06-28 12:29:39 am

Pefectionist wannabe

Well if it looks fine to you and nobody have said a definite NO and I think it is good enough I hope it is (please someone, tell me if its not!!!) and I'll complete the run like this.

Thanks for you answer!