Does anyone have a good link or set up for doing a timer for a console game, i have an elgato recording system that i use though a laptop for when i do record for console games, but i don't know on how to capture a timer with it, and I am also unsure as to how it is seen timing it post game play (unedited video of course).

I primary would like to know since I just got Comic jumper up on the side and now a Mod for it, I'd like to know for starting guidelines for it and to get an Any % on their to get some thing started on it.

uploading a run without having a timer on-screen is fine (at least in my books).

There are multiple ways to approach timing with console games (tbh it's the same as PC games except there's no way to get an autosplitter) Inhouse products like the elgato software or avermedia's RECentral don't offer any way to alter the videofeed.

1. Time by Framecounting -Doesn't require a timer on-screen -You can use the program of the capture card -Is tedious -is the most accurate

2. Overlay a timer like LiveSplit with a streaming program -Needs more cpu-power than letting the capture card encode

3. Overlay a timer in with a video-editor like Sony Vegas -Needs more time (reencoding the video)

4. (If given) Just use the on-screen streaming time of the console + math -Works on PS4 (dunno about about XBone)

5. Don't overlay the timer -easiest & most lazy approach

[quote]1. Time by Framecounting -is the most accurate[/quote] Actually, it really isn't. I've re-timed a good number of recordings to find the encoding was poor and didn't match up with LiveSplit by as much as 10 seconds. LiveSplit being captured helps with the integrity of a recording.

Thanks for the input, I'll try to do the timer overlay after the fact with the video editor, the laptop I use for the recording doesn't have that good of CPU to run 2 different things on it that I'm aware of. and the game is on the Xbox 360/one only.

OK first, please don't post questions in very old threads like this. Post a new one. Second, check the rules for whatever leaderboard you want to submit runs to. 99% of the time splits/timer are not necessary but there are exceptions.