(60) FPS - Frames Per Second, or how many images are in every second of video.If you’re looking to capture via a component connection, make sure to check any device you have for that feature. You’ll find these on the PS3 or Xbox 360, but not the latest round of consoles. Component - The red/green/blue video cables that are used as an alternative to HDMI cables for an HD picture.HDCP - High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection, a hardware encryption that will prevent protected content being sent through capture software.Formats can be encoded with different codecs. Format / Container - Basically the filetype.H.264 is the most common codec right now, and shouldn’t give you problems, so don’t sweat this. Some codecs won’t work on a Mac or PC without third-party programs. Codec - The software that does the compression.It’s why you can stream YouTube videos on your phone, and also why your video sometimes gets blocky, or text is hard to read in jpegs. Compression - Something that makes a video, image or other file smaller than the original data.This is just a super-basic explanation for each in case you get lost during this article. Whether you’re shopping for a video capture device, trying to get video from one program to work with another, or any number of other situations, these terms might come up. I’ll get more detailed with the consoles since those will be the most commonly used. Since I’ll be covering a variety of products and applications, this post will focus on the basics of each. Now the latest round of consoles (well, two of them) have built-in video capture and streaming functions, but even those can cause some hassles if you want to upload your video to YouTube instead of OneDrive or Facebook. During the last console generation, players had to use external devices to capture gameplay video.

We often get asked how to capture and share clips either for YouTube or for our Highlight Reel feature.

Read on for Kotaku’s (mostly) definitive guide to capturing gameplay video on your consoles, PC, or even a Mac! Ever do something amazing in a game and wish you could share the clip with the world (or at least Facebook)? Well, thanks to a plethora of built-in tools and software designed to record gameplay, it’s easier than ever before.

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