I am trying to record an animation of DirectX 11 as a video file. I am still learning about DirectX and windows API. I found https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15941/Recording-DirectX-and-OpenGL-Rendered-Animations?msg=4283609#xx4283609xx, which describes how to do it with DirectX 9, but when I try to use this code, I run into multiple dependency problems since the code utilizes dxerr9.lib which I read is not compatible with VS2017.

I would really appreciate any help or pointers on how to accomplish this task. How could one record an animation as a video. If you have a working example that I can follow, that would help immensely.

Hi AbdgGmu,

You can record videos of directX applications using Windows Game Bar. I've used free software like MP4Joiner to join several video files.

-Scott

Hi Scott!

Thank you for your reply. I have created different animations myself using DirectX 11, and I would like to capture them in code. That way I can record many different animations, by running through them in a loop. Instead of having to record it myself for each animation, I think that's what Windows Game Bar would require from me. I hope I am not missing something.

Game bar will record whatever is on your screen. It also has the ability to trim videos, so if you record one clip of 5 different animations, you could save it as five different movie clips.

I made a video of some animation with and without animation blending. I recorded the running animations separately with GameBar, and then joined them together with MP4joiner. The scenes that have text were a recording of a screenshot pasted into MSPaint.