Switch Video Capture May Go Beyond 30 Second Limit In The Future

This is way more like it, imo. When I first heard the 30 sec limit I was like 'oh c'mon, we could at least get a couple min'... I hope it does get upped.

Hardly a surprise really.

Well, the recording is the LAST 30 seconds so that's fine with me (very useful for Mario Kart 8 when you don't have any replay slots left). But if it's to start recording from the time you push the button then of course I'd prefer a longer duration.

I hope EA allow it for FIFA. I would like to start a best goals thread in the forum.

Switchtacular!!!

I need to know how big is the file size for 30 seconds recording.
5 minutes for video recording probably will create very Huge file size.

Btw, we still wonder about the IR Sensor on the Right Joy Cons. Is that have any usage ?

@OorWullie HOLY COW! Goal of the month poll would be amzing!!!

5mins would have most Splatoon 2 matches and Mario Kart 8 races covered...thumbs up from me!

@Lalivero Honestly I haven't found the 30 second limit too restrcting yet. I've recored two videos of Splatoon 2, one where my teammate dived onto the base in rainmaker. And one where my team basically walked the rainmaker to the base within 10 seconds. It got the job done both times and it showed everything I needed it to.

I guess I can see your point if you're maybe wanting to record a large chunk of a hard level for reference. Or a particularly competivite Splatoon match.

30 seconds in nothing really. But it's a start. More than they've done in several other areas so far with the Switch. And further evidence that they weren't ready at launch. It's taken nearly 8 months to use the capture button.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE 30 seconds can be a lot in a fast paced game. You can win a match of rainmaker in Splatoon in about that time.

But yeah, if/when we get a longer duration the better.

@Nintendoforlife I'm kind of in the same boat. My main use for recording is Splatoon 2, and I kinda like that it's only 30 seconds, since usually the thing worth capturing occurs in a few seconds, and having longer videos when all I need is a short segment would fill up the storage faster, plus with no built-in editing tools it'd be a chore to get just those few seconds I wanted.

As long as they are trying to persuade third parties to update their games to take advantage of the feature, I'm happy. I was extremely disappointed to hear that it only worked in, like, four games.

@nab1 Actually if you press A while you're on the video, you'll see the trim menu as an option. So you can make the video shorter if needed.

30 seconds is perfectly fine. It's more of a highlight recording for something that happens on the fly. If you wanted to record entire playthroughs, get an Elgato HD Capture device.

@Nintendoforlife Could be me, but there are some games that I'd record the cutscenes for(ones that change based on your answers, etc)that could be between a min or two(w/o having to speed through the text). Hell, there are a few things I've done that I'd love to have had recorded that probably were at least a min.

I'll give this a test later but I know I'll be awaiting the longer times personally!

@Nintendoforlife That's good to know! I updated to 4.0 recently but haven't actually tried it yet, I just have a lot of plans to use it tonight in Splatoon 2

@Lalivero Yeah I see the vision for sure. I haven't really spent any time playing games such as that, so I can't relate on a personal level but hey not everybody plays games the same way. Hopefully you're able to get the lengths you can better make use of!

I would like longer video capture's so I can show off my strategies in the Master Sword Trial Rooms in BOTW

@Anti-Matter
Moron seems a little harsh.. Hes just voicing an opinion. 30 seconds isn't the greatest, its great that we have it still though.

@Lalivero That's a good point. I'd like to record the attack on Vah Ruta section on BotW because it's so epic, I guess I'll probably save multiple clips.

Not that happy. I liked the fact that we got to record but 20fps is not what I wanted... I tried 2 clips of a Splatoon 2 kill montage and both were at a horrible average of 20fps... Another issue is that the exact timing isn't detailed (as in where and at what exact time does the recording start). From what I know, 25s previous to capturing and 5 seconds after capturing is the rate though I might be wrong...

Plus, Sony started this with 15 recording similar to the Switch right now. Nintendo is field testing this feature, and if it receives positive feedbacks, then we may see beyond video capturing

It's nice that they're taking it slow with this versus going full blast and having a bunch of possible bugs and glitches to fix. Don't want to brick that system too soon.

30 seconds works for me to get my highlight moments. In this fast-paced busy world, I'll be lucky to find somebody with an attention span/patience of one minute.
With that said extra time could make for better edits.

I like how this works, but would like more time. I love that instead of hopefully recording something cool, i can do something accidentally (as usual) and then grab it in a video. I hope ps4 can adopt something like this. Too many boring videos on there i need to delete

I'd like it to be at least 3 minutes so it can cover a full game of Splatoon.

30 seconds is fine for my purposes. If I wanted longer I would get a real capture device. It'll be nice when it eventually expands, but I'm happy with it as is for now.

The Playstation 4 can capture 15 min of video, can post it on Youtube / Dailymotion etc.. can do LIVE streamings... not talking about PC for obvious reasons. Nintendo have a LONG way to go before we can call this service "competitive" or "complete".

Yes its a start. But its also already the year 2017.

This will, or at least could, actually be somewhat useful in the future. I have a feeling hackers will expand the use of this feature, for purposes of demonstrating, & tutorials about the UI, both things that we can access currently, & things currently locked out to the end-user. This will also find, & have its uses in Switch emulation.

@CorvoRevo Over at gonintendo.com Philo Sophy had a good response that I'll just quote in full because it's easier that way:

"The PlayStation 4 is actually recording your whole session during playing. A whole processor was wasted for just the social features of the Console. Yes I can release my whole playthrough of Final Fantasy XV and share it with tons of people who will never watch it. It‘s cool for people who need this, but for me, it‘s a waste of resources.
It‘s not like Nintendo will copy this feature now. It‘s meant for short clips perfect for the use on Twitter. Maybe this is more like a test-run to see how this feature is used by the Switch-Owners. Don‘t forget you need a lot of horsepower to actually record lot‘s of data. Like I said, the PlayStation 4 needs a separate CPU for this. So, before calling it a joke, you should compare the Hardwareof both systems. Don‘t wanna offend here, but it‘s not a fair comparison."

Of course it will

Should've been in the OS from day one really.

I don’t have anyone that cares about watching my videos, but still cool I guess.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Whining - whining - whining - when does this whining stop I wonder?

If it's the previous 30 sec, games need to be upgraded to support this. This implies an in memory buffer to be allocated of a certain size - hopefully then the OS will compress and add the last frame buffer to the recording.

What this means, is that the less OS memory used by a game - the longer the recording could be.

I don't know if the Switch had built in hardware for video compression like the PS4 does, but that would be handy.

What is the resolution on the recorded videos?

When you hit the capture button, it just writes the current capture buffer to media.

30 seconds is long enough to convey a message or share a laugh on social media. Not everyone wants to become Youtubers lol.

@Nekoo77 I am against offensive language. I forgive it here in this case.

@Cosats Why is that?

Nice to see the highest voted comment here is someone calling another reader a 'moron' for having an opinion. Great moderation!

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Oh you:)

Edit: Removed my namecalling.

Please don't descend in to name calling. The dude is allowed his opinion. I disagree with some stuff, but agree with others (occasionally!) and he contributes to the site with news. Rather than calling him a troll or moron or what have you, you would be better served actually disagreeing because I'm sure name calling has zero effect on any person worth their salt (and you seem to imply he has loads lol) I think it's like having the Stadler and Waldorf from the muppets in the forums and those two were ace!

why does it even need patches? this should just work for every game...

The video capture for me appears to be 720p, 30fps - although it does appear to be dropping frames occasionally, particularly when Splatoon 2 is very hectic. Average bitrate is 5Mbit/sec. Nowhere near as good as my Elgato capture card, but if something amazing happens in a game I'm glad we can keep a recording of it!

If my upload test is accurate, the resolution of these videos is 480p

@Pat84

720p. Twitter uses compression when uploading. You would need to copy the video directly from the SD card to your computer

@Bustacap To make it better, Nintendo needs feedbacks from the Switch owners in order to make this feature available across the rest of the game.

Again, would be nice to be able to post our clips in full quality to YouTube like you can do with Mario Kart replays in-game

So basically what we have right now is a BETA version of the video capture. Once they get more data and tweak things, and integrate more support for it, they will expand and improve the feature.

Makes sense to me.

So who got called a moron and why?

@Anti-Matter "Btw, we still wonder about the IR Sensor on the Right Joy Cons. Is that have any usage ?"

The first game(s) I know of that's upcoming are the Switch versions of the Resident Evil Revelations games that will use it in Joycon/motion control mode. In order to reload, you'll make a "handgun reload gesture" with the right Joycon being the pistol grip and bringing your left hand up to lock the 'clip' into place (I'd probably crack the plastic of the Joycon and/or IR sensor cover).

-source, the Capcom panel at New York Comic Con 2017

@headfirstslide I can see that it was Anti-Matter doing the name calling, which can only mean that the target was SLIGEACH_EIRE. As for why, well, with an ID suggestive of baseball I'll assume you're a sports fan for the purposes of my analogy. Imagine you are a fan of a last place team but, being a fan, still support them. Let's say you decide to go to the bar to watch the game, even though you expect them to lose. Let's say that your expectations are met. In this scenario SLIGEACH_EIRE is the guy at the other end of the bar who won't shut up about how bad they are, and Anti-Matter is the guy who's had enough and tells him to shut the [redacted] up. The moderators are the bartender who can't ask SLIGEACH_EIRE to leave because he hasn't actually crossed the line so they have to put up with it, but they do have to say something to Anti-Matter because he did cross the line, even though they secretly agree with him. At least I hope they do, because SLIGEACH_EIRE makes this website worse, and I can't imagine they don't see that.

Note: I probably make this website worse too, so, you know, take it for what it's worth.

@PanurgeJr While I disagree with most statements made by old Sliggy, I'd say this one comment is pretty valid. All he did was state his opinion on the 30 second restriction. Nothing to get offended about here.

@headfirstslide I'd agree that what he says is not worth taking offense at. (I don't actually know, because he's on my ignore list.) But after a while its unrelenting nature is understandably grating.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE @yeayeanaynay @GrailUK True, maybe I should have made it clear I was slightly amused.

@yeayeanaynay Baiting trolls, and using profanity, is not acceptable here. Please ignore trolls and mind your language. Thanks.

@yeayeanaynay Please don't partially censor profanity either. Censor the whole word or just avoid it completely. Thanks.

@deafswin37 Remember to not post something if you don't have anything meaningful to say, that includes replies that don't say more than "facepalm". Also mind your language.

@Octane ok I never said anything rude but u got tons here that do..I'm new here but not liking what I see ..I'm a new Nintendo developer and looking for a Nintendo site to promote my future game and right now not liking what I see..

@deafswin37 I am unsurprised that you are unimpressed with the moderation here. They refuse to do anything about actual trolls, but are more than happy to censure anyone who calls trolls out. They moderate publicly in the comment threads, but claim that it is inappropriate to discuss their moderation publicly in the comment threads. They freak out if someone calls a spade a spade and will edit out the offensive terms, sometimes in utterly ridiculous ways that make the commenter sound...well, they'll edit any accurate description I make; but when things like white nationalism appear, they don't do a thing. It's very much a case of not seeing the forest for the trees.

@PanurgeJr well that is a shame but we have a Nintendo page on Facebook called Nintendo switch world community no trolls there and better reviews and more

@hcfwesker ... Or a 4 year old PS4.

@deafswin37 That still applies...

@Octane What applies?