Picking a cap card- would this work?

[rogueguy23]

Hey guys, just now getting into the capture card business here. I was looking at this here.

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Dazzle/Dazzle+Vide...eator+Platinum



If i got that, what else would I need?

[Baldrick]

What are you going to capture? What are you going to make? DVD?

[rogueguy23]

I want to record gameplay footage on my xbox 360 console, then slap it on my PC to edit.

[rogueguy23]

Actually what about this one?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=171736&CatId=1428

[FulciLives]

The Plextor and the Dazzle products are both NOT highly regarded.

If I were you I would get the Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 which is an external USB 2.0 capture device that captures to MPEG-2 format. BEST BUY and CIRCUIT CITY both carry this device. You can also find it on-line and use a service such as pricegrabber.com to find the best price.

Please note that the Hauppauge will have some lag so you need to split the output of your game system and send one to a TV for playing and one to the capture device for recording. Radio Shack makes such units. For instance here is one that would work and is relatively cheap: CLICK HERE

So you output via the game system using S-Video and analog RCA audio ... plug that into the Radio Shack unit ... then one output of the Radio Shack unit goes to the TV and another goes to the capture device.

Of course you will have to output 480i format.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[rogueguy23]

The Plextor and the Dazzle products are both NOT highly regarded.

If I were you I would get the Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 which is an external USB 2.0 capture device that captures to MPEG-2 format. BEST BUY and CIRCUIT CITY both carry this device. You can also find it on-line and use a service such as pricegrabber.com to find the best price.

Please note that the Hauppauge will have some lag so you need to split the output of your game system and send one to a TV for playing and one to the capture device for recording. Radio Shack makes such units. For instance here is one that would work and is relatively cheap: CLICK HERE

So you output via the game system using S-Video and analog RCA audio ... plug that into the Radio Shack unit ... then one output of the Radio Shack unit goes to the TV and another goes to the capture device.

Of course you will have to output 480i format.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

Ok cool thank you!

Now will that RECORD it or just send it to my PC? What can I use to actually do the video footage? Or will that do it?

[FulciLives]

The Plextor and the Dazzle products are both NOT highly regarded.

If I were you I would get the Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 which is an external USB 2.0 capture device that captures to MPEG-2 format. BEST BUY and CIRCUIT CITY both carry this device. You can also find it on-line and use a service such as pricegrabber.com to find the best price.

Please note that the Hauppauge will have some lag so you need to split the output of your game system and send one to a TV for playing and one to the capture device for recording. Radio Shack makes such units. For instance here is one that would work and is relatively cheap: CLICK HERE

So you output via the game system using S-Video and analog RCA audio ... plug that into the Radio Shack unit ... then one output of the Radio Shack unit goes to the TV and another goes to the capture device.

Of course you will have to output 480i format.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

Ok cool thank you!

Now will that RECORD it or just send it to my PC? What can I use to actually do the video footage? Or will that do it?

Well the Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 will capture to a MPEG-2 video file that ... with the correct settings ... will be DVD compliant.

There are programs made specifically to edit MPEG-2 video (the two most popular being MPEG-VCR and VideoReDo) so you can edit and then burn to a DVD. However if you want to do some "extensive" or "advanced" editing then you probably will want to convert the recorded MPEG-2 file to another format (like DV AVI or HuffyUV AVI) and then edit and then convert back to MPEG-2 DVD spec.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman