Screen Recording Lags

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Hello,

I use the Processing Movie Maker:

Tools

See the tools menu in the Processing PDE.

And make a movie (rendering) of sequential frames:

saveFrame() / Reference

Make sure to add control to the saving of frames otherwise you are saving a lot of images every time you run the code.

A couple of references:

• Making Videos from Processing Sketches · Sighack
• 25 life-saving tips for Processing | Amnon P5 - Experiments with Processing by Amnon Owed
  See tip #7.
• Creating Animated GIFs in Processing
  If you want to create animated gifs.

There are many more!

When I do screen capture I make sure to get past the “hiccups” before I capture my sketches:

FrameRate hiccups

I threw together some code to visualize the hiccups; they are within the first 15 seconds (repeatable) and after that it is a rock solid 59 to 60 fps (green). The bottom row is first 15 seconds (up to vertical line) and then it keeps plotting framerate and moves up a row at a time: [image] The glitch on top row is when I used “Snipping Tool”. I went through many of my apps to see what cause hiccups (frame rate drops) and was very surprised! Some had no impact and others significant. I’ll …

Also make sure other things are not running in background that may impact frame rate if doing a screen capture.
Starting Chrome always impacts the frame rate for me as well as some other applications.

:)