I’m nearing the completion of my first game and I would like to upload a video of it to YouTube, but I don’t know how. I’m not sure if Unity has a built-in feature for video recording. Are there any good video recording programs to use for Windows 8.1? I would prefer ones that are free and can record in decent quality (at least 720p). I read about Fraps, but it is not compatible with Windows 8. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Camstudio for pc is free. Make sure you download and install the codec that goes with it. Unsure if it is compatible with windows 8 yet.
I’ve used OBS (https://obsproject.com/) and it works fine with both Unity and Windows 8.1.
Debut free version is good. It also allows you to record a defined area of the screen : Best Video Screen Capture Software - Record HD quality video easily on PC or Mac
I use Active Presenter on Win 7 64bit.
To record my own Blender Tutorials.
It has really nice quality too. 
But I don’t know if it will work well on WIn 8.1.
Probably because I don’t have Win 8.1 yet. 
Debut looks great! It looks like it’s exactly what I need!
I looked at the website for Active Presenter and I did not find anything about system requirements, so I don’t know if it will work on Win 8.1. Overall, Active Presenter looks pretty good, but I’d say that @Freddy888 was dead on with Debut. Who knows, nothing stopping me from having more than one!
@ Bean : Best way to figure out is trial and error ;). Debut locked itself into a 0 day trial mode for me 
Trial mode? I experienced no such thing when I downloaded and installed it the other day. Are you saying the free version is just a trial? Anyways, trial and error is the best way to learn.
By the way, you had a little whoopsy with my name there. Lol. It seems like @ has doesn’t much to contribute to the Unity forums, considering he/she has a whopping 0 messages! 
Just make sure you tell it you’re not using it commercially, or else it will lock you to the professional mode :P.
@Blue_Bean_Apps I’ve been running the free version for a couple of years and it’s still going fine. Glad you found it useful, have fun
Thanks for the heads-up!
Bandicam is like $20 and works awesome. Recent update made the UI 100x better.
As I’ve said in my first post, I want software that is free to use. Maybe once I start earning some money from my first game, I will look into some higher quality programs, but for now I’m starting cheap.
Try OBS (I linked it earlier in the thread). It works just fine for me with Win 8.1 and Unity. And it’s free
I tried that out a bit the other day, and found that I prefer Debut. With Debut, you can start recording the second you open it up, pretty much, which is very nice! It also has a simpler interface. Debut and OBS are my top two choices.
i am using FastStone Capture on my windows 8.1 laptop.
it is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool and screen video recorder. Built-in screen recorder saves videos in WMV (Windows Media Video) format.
30 days trial and 19.95 $ to buy it
Can it save to other formats, such as mp4, flv, avi, etc.? I want to upload the recorded video to YouTube and elsewhere, but as far as I know, YouTube doesn’t accept wmv formats. Also, how limited is the trial version? Are you at least capable of recording a few minutes of video with the trial version? I tried using Debut the other day and before I could even record anything, it locked me out telling me to purchase it, so Debut’s trial version is completely worthless… Well, you get what you paid for, right? 
Are you sure you downloaded the free version. Like I said it’s been running for a couple of years for me for free.
Camstudio is utter crap! I installed it and all this malware came along with it and it took forever to remove all of it! I’m not necessarily blaming the makers of Camstudio for the unwanted malware, but I blame their installer! I had to use Spybot AND Malewarebytes to THREE times to finally get rid of the damn malware, so it was a complete waste of a day!
Helpful warning to people who want to use Camstudio… DON’T USE CAMSTUDIO!! Only use it if you are good friends with malware…
What site did you download yours from? I downloaded through sourceforge. As common practice I run installers downloaded from the web through my virus and maleware programs to ensure that nothing got attached to it and found nothing before and after installing camstudio. Maybe one of the more recent versions does indeed have something attached to it as I am still running an older version.