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Subject: i need an xbox caprture card but i know nothing about them please help
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i would like to have jst to have i think it would be a nice thing to have unfortunately i know nothing about them or installing them

  • 02.13.2005 12:30 PM PDT
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Yes please i know nothing either. Please message me too if possible.

  • 02.13.2005 5:20 PM PDT
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Damn, I guess I'm not the only one. Where the hell do people get these things?

  • 02.13.2005 7:44 PM PDT
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i dunno if anyone told u yet but you can buy a new video capture card for your comp. to put it simply, it has an av ot some other ntsc imput. an example is the ati radeon all in wonder cards.

  • 02.14.2005 12:42 PM PDT
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Yea about these cards i was talking to this person about them. She said that these cards only record tv channels not xbox gameplay so what do i need then to record the game footage.

  • 02.14.2005 1:16 PM PDT
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I use my pc to capture my xbox game play...I use a KWorld Internal TV Capture Card set to TV Channel 3 which is doable if u have the RF Adapter. Also I will say this. Split the signal to ur computer and tv that way you wont be slowing the computer down while its recording. U can get The Dazzle External setup w/all software and hardware required for only $100 in an easy to setup kit at any Best Buy, Ebay, Sears, Mid-Sized to Large Generic PC Store...I personally would go with Dazzle as its easier to use and can use RCA Inputs instead of just co-ax(RF) with RCA Inputs u get a better quality signal over video and sound...For more info visit my site and look for a forum topic (that I will post in a couple of days of equipment that helps for xbox) at www.zer0dn.com

Thanks...

  • 02.14.2005 11:41 PM PDT
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what i used to do was record them on vhs then put the vhs through a digitizer then it would be put into my comp. But it was really time consuming.

  • 02.15.2005 6:48 PM PDT
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yeah i heard about these chips that u can put in ur xbox and it lets them copy the game disk on the harddrive and u can keep like rented games for ever and not need the disk to play them they cost around 60 dollars and they viod ur warranty if u use them

  • 02.18.2005 5:28 AM PDT
Subject: Caputring Video from Your Xbox
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Hello.

I work as video editor, so I thought I'd help you out.

There are several analog cables that transmit video. In order from lowest to highest quality, they are:

Coaxial
Composite (RCA)
S-Video
Component

There are capture cards that capture each type of video. Lowest quality costs less, so it depends on how much you want to spend versus how good you want your video to look.

A standard television image has the resolution of 720x480. Most low-end capture cards only offer resolutions up to 360x240, which is half resolution. You'll want to find a card that boasts full resolution.

I've used Dazzle before, two versions actually. I had a Dazzle USB1.1 hookup, which only offered the one-half full resolution. I traded that in for a PCI Dazzle card, which is fine, except when I started working as a non-linear film editor, it wasn't as good a quality as capturing IEEE 1394 Firewire. I have it packaged up and was going to sell it on Ebay (used of course). If you're interested, send me a message.

My current setup, which would capture Xbox video with the included RCA hookup (yellow, red, white cables) OR the next pack up (the one with the S-Video hookup) is a CANOPUS ADVC-100, which converts analog signals such as S-Video or RCA to a digital IEEE 1394 firewire signal. I then run the Canopus firewire signal directly into my PC, compressed as DVAVI files (a compression that is very close to uncompressed quality).

I used to use Windows Movie Maker to capture these DVAVI files, as it's free with Windows, but I now use Adobe Premire.

One thing to note: if you're not running Windows XP then your harddisk is formatted with the FAT or FAT32 file system and cannot accept files sized larger than 4GB. Video editing DEMANDS A LOT of hard disk space, and one file of raw footage (such as you playing Halo) can run much larger than this file size limitation. If you are running Windows XP, you need to check to see if your harddisk is formatted as NTFS, which eliminates this limitation. You can convert a FAT or FAT32 file structure to NTFS with the convert tool, but I'm not going to explain how to do that here, because I don't want to be blamed for you accidentally erasing your harddrive! Go to the Windows help forum at www.microsoft.com to find out how to use the convert tool.

So there you go. Xbox into Canopus into Firewire card.

Firewire cards are running cheap nowadays, so you're good there. I have the Canopus on loan from work so I don't know how much it costs, but similar products can run anywhere from $100 - $500.

If you want REALLY high end quality and near HD or HD resolution, then I don't know much aobut that except that capture cards, such as ones used in Hollywood 'standard' Avid Express editing systems and other NLE hardware based systems, can run into the thousands and tens of thousands of dollars.

The best thing to keep in mind is what you want your outcome to look like. Remember, in all video (except digital, which is 1 for 1) there is a visible generational loss. Meaning your output will have less quality than your input.

TaDa! A crash course in basic video capturing.

If you have any questions beyond what I've covered here, feel free to PM me or email me at:

[email] sbre_cinema@yahoo.com [/email]

with the subject line: XBOX VIDEO CAPTURING (your name)

Hope this helps, and have fun!
-MTN

  • 02.18.2005 8:16 PM PDT
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I forgot to mention comsumer-level hardware based editing systems.

If you are serious about caturing and editing video from your Xbox, have a couple thousand to burn, but don't enough to buy a high end capture card or decent editing software, then you could try Casablanca's editors. I've used those extensively (they had a small monopoly for awhile where I work, so i got a lot of time on them).

The one I use now is the Casablanca Prestige with an Abrask DVD burner.

It's a custom OS, which takes some getting used to, but it is comsumer level, unlike Avid, so it's fairly easy to learn.

I use it for quick projects that have a lot of footage and not much effects (as no communication between my effects software on my PC and the Prestige is possible -- that I currently know of).

I haven't checked in on the newest software for the thing, so you might get some stuff I don't have.

Last I checked it's around $3000. Check Casablanca .

Having a separate hardware for capture and edit is good in that your PC functions and use don't interefere with your editing, but it's bad because you're isolating yourself on a separate machine.

Again, everything is dependant on what you want to do. Once you know that, you know what you need to achive it.

-MTN

  • 02.18.2005 8:26 PM PDT