Welcome back. Sorry if my last post above sounded a little mean, wasn't sure if your message was directed at me personally or not :p
I use FRAPS to record at half of my screen res (which ends up being 720x452) at 40 FPS (so that I can add slow-motion effects if required without it lagging). I use Sony Vegas Pro to put it all together, and have been making movies for around 2 years now.
If you watch 'The Diversion' at http://www.youtube.com/SpeedCarProductions, you'll find that I took care of most of the special effects (i.e. Night to day transition in TDU (Waterfall scene), various helicopter in TDU shots, putting the TDU replay shots together, etc), and filmed some stuff for LeadfootYT, who get's most of the credit since he originally wrote the script/idea, before I added/changed stuff for him to make it a bit better.
I'm about 40% through my next movie. Most of the TDU stuff is done, most of what I need to get now if from Crysis, FSX, and NFS Shift.I might be able to have it finished in a few weeks, but it ultimately depends on how quickly Leadfoot is able ot help me out with the Crysis Sandbox Editor (tryiing to get a GreenScreen map working).