Better Video Recording Program then FRAPS? And using Sony Vegas Pro.

[MiRai]

I want to use a better program then FRAPS for quality.

That's going to be tough to come by unless you have a beast of a machine. Here's some numbers (I could be wrong):

FRAPS (Regular Recording) - 3.95GB/1:43 @ 39.3 MB/sec (314 Mbps)
FRAPS (RGB Lossless) - 3.95GB/1:00 @ 68.8 MB/sec (558 Mbps)
MSI Afterburner (Uncompressed) - 8.25GB/1:00 @ 138.2 MB/sec (1,110 Mbps)
BandiCam (RGB24 Codec) - 10GB/1:00 @ 169.8 MB/sec (1,360 Mbps)
YouTube (YouTube Codec @ 1080p) - 30MB/1:00 @ 599 KB/sec (5 Mbps)

(Note: Data rates read through Adobe Premiere and then converted to Mbps. All video files are 1920x1080 @ 29.97 FPS. EDIT: Using World of Warcraft footage.)

In my experience, FRAPS RGB Lossless will require a very fast single HDD to record properly. RGB24 in BandiCam and MSI Afterburner's uncompressed option will most likely require SSD-like speeds for recording and playback. However, all of that is moot because whatever you upload to YouTube gets re-encoded with its own codec. So, you can output a nice lossless video to your desktop, but when you go to upload it YouTube is going to tear it apart anyway and do what it wants. YouTube recommends that you upload 1080p videos at 8 Mbps.

Also one that doesn't restrict the size to the 32FAT limit that windows uses (if I'm understanding that correctly).

I'm always curious to know why people don't like the 4GB file size restriction. Personally, it helps me get rid of gigabytes worth of useless footage. Let's say I have 100GB of FRAPS footage (25 files x 4GB/each) but, I only want to use 10GB of it (about 3 of those 25 files). I can just delete the unused footage right off my HDD and never look back. Where as, if I have a single 100GB file, I'm stuck editing a single 100GB file... which is a total pain and a waste of space (IMO).