The two most known are FRAPs and GameCam.
Or you could use demos already included in the game. They are a pretty different beast than videos, though.
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The two most known are FRAPs and GameCam.
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What are the pluses and minuses of each? 
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The two most known are FRAPs and GameCam.
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What are the pluses and minuses of each?
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FRAPs is a huge resource hog. You can definitely feel it negatively affecting your performance when you turn it on. Also, it's output is huge. On the plus side, it produces the highest quality video, which is the best for video making. (The better the quality of the footage before video editing / encoding, the better the video will look when it's all done.) The free version will record 30 second clips, and places a water mark at the top of the video.
GameCam is much lighter weight and doesn't effect your performance as much. It has two methods of recording, one like FRAPs (turn it on, you're recording) and a buffer mode (where you can have it buffer up to 2 minutes at a time, then one button will dump it to disk, best for infrequent action like PvP so you don't miss the beginning of fights). It's output isn't nearly as high quality as FRAPs though, so it will degrade your video quality when you're done.
Thats been my experience with them, anyways.
Sarrate sums them up pretty well. Zloth has the right idea: Use the demorecord feature. It makes really small, editable files that you can later use Fraps on to get good quality video. That way you dont have to worry about having Fraps bog down your performance in game. Going that route also frees you up if you learn how to edit the demo files. You can add, delete, and move elements before you record. 
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Yeah, though lately demos have been getting a little crazy with the timing. Enemies flying back a second before you hit them, run animations starting a second after you start moving - that kind of thing.
I ran into some of that when making my video. I noticed it was less of an issue when I had the demorecord running a bit before I went into the action for the scene I was trying to get into the video. I also noticed that if you let a scene repeat a couple of times in the playback software it will sort it out some of the time.
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Anyone know a program I can use to catch some video from in the game?