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Subject: Capturing Video and Audio for Machinima

Hello! You may also know me as Ijnekono. How you have made your way here I do not know, but welcome. (:

From Jon Graham's Blog.
Q: I know how to make a decent machinima, but I lack the proper hardware. What capture device do you use?

A:
This is a different story. There are two different, common forms of capturing video/audio. There's internal capture cards (meaning cards that fit into your motherboard, like a sound card or a video card, etc.), and there's external capture devices. I use the latter. It's an external USB video/audio capturing device called the Dazzle DVC (Digital Video Creator) 80.

All it basically is is a small, black box with the common yellow, red and white RCA jacks for audio and video, and it plugs into my computer via a USB port.

I then have a dual ended RCA cable (it's a cable with the yellow, red and white prongs for audio and video on both ends of it), one end plugs into the jacks located on the capture device that I mentioned, and the other end goes into my television's audio/video OUT RCA jacks.

[ Computer ] ---USB Cord--- [Dazzle DVC 80] ---Dual-ended RCA cable--- [TV] --- [Xbox 360]

I load up a video in Theatre mode on Halo 3 that I want to capture. Since it's hooked up to the above mentioned TV, it shows up on the TV screen. Incredible!


So my problem is that I checked my TV and I only have an audio out port and no video out port! What can I do???

Would this work? Take an HDMI/RCA splitter and split the HDMI/RCA coming out of the xbox. One goes to the TV and the other to the capture device. Well???

All suggestions are much appreciated.
Please mention if you've had this problem and fixed it personally.

[Edited on 07.20.2011 7:13 PM PDT]

  • 07.20.2011 7:11 PM PDT

Hello! You may also know me as Ijnekono. How you have made your way here I do not know, but welcome. (:

Instead of
Comp--USB--Dazzle--RCA Cable--TV--Xbox
I was thinking more like
Comp--USB--Dazzle--RCA Cable--RCA Splitter--Xbox
...............TV--RCA Cable--RCA Splitter--Xbox

  • 07.20.2011 7:24 PM PDT

Hello! You may also know me as Ijnekono. How you have made your way here I do not know, but welcome. (:

Are the Gallery Forums this empty? Sorry, I must bump.

  • 07.20.2011 7:35 PM PDT

Hello! You may also know me as Ijnekono. How you have made your way here I do not know, but welcome. (:

If anyone cares to respond, please private message me.

  • 07.20.2011 8:32 PM PDT