I use Fraps (
http://www.fraps.com/), I've experimented with some free ones some years ago (mostly CamStudio (
http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/)), but couldn't find any that I could get to work properly on my computer, sadly. It couldn't record the sound (I later found a way to record that with the free program Audacity (
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/), but that doesn't really matter for Universe Sandbox anyway), and couldn't get the framerate above ~2 FPS. But for me it works with Fraps.
I haven't tried OBS though.
Most of the movies I made about Universe Sandbox used the built-in feature (in the old version) to save frames every x frames into a lot of pictures, and then putting them together and displaying them all for a very short while with Windows Movie Maker. I think that's a very useful feature and works better than any recording software for simulations with galaxies or lots of particles or bodies, as they're usually too slow to be interesting to watch in real-time (in the program), and saving every x frames allows you to run the sim over much longer time to get a much higher quality.
It was hard to judge what I'd get out of it sometimes, there were some cases where I ran it for a couple of hours and it turned out that the sim was simply too slow to notice the objects moving significantly. But the feature was very nice and I hope something like it gets implemented in version 2.
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