(-CJ-) Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 triks to make a good vid: *quit the hud mode *quit the minimap *quit the volume of the tv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legoman Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Why do you suggest muting the tv? If you do that then you wont have gun fire sounds, explosion sounds, people swearing for no good reason.... I think its better to have game sounds and a song over the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Why do you suggest muting the tv? If you do that then you wont have gun fire sounds, explosion sounds, people swearing for no good reason....I think its better to have game sounds and a song over the top. I agree. I turn off the car radio, but keep the game sounds at bed level, with external music over it. Definitely turn of Radar and HUD though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Forgive the bump but I wanted to add new info since a lot of people are expressing interest. video capture adapters cables: buy.com for US web order Amazon.co.uk for UK orders Keep in mind if you want to record from PS2 to your video capture card, the TV does not need to be connected to either machine. hosting: So many people have had bad experiences with rapidshare.de that I'm unrecommending it. Stick with: thegamersalliance.com www.putfile.com filefront (whats the URL?) rocketsoft (rippa can host via PM) your ISP may be able to host Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 The only option that I know will work with my computer is filming a TV screen. I haven't got any scan lines as such but can see a heck of a lot of red, blue and green whatevers, I can't remember whether they are pixels or not. But you should know what I'm talking about... I hope. Anyway, has anyone got any tips for cutting out or reducing this? I'll try and show you what I mean some time, that might help. Thanks in advance though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Blotchy oversaturated colors can be caused from gamma settings being too high. I doubt you can adjust them in Windows Movie Maker, but higher end software has the option batched with brightness, hue, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Could you cut them out on Adobe Premier or would changing the lighting around my TV help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Could you cut them out on Adobe Premier or would changing the lighting around my TV help? Changing the lighting may help, I don't know how much. Premiere makes it easy to lower the gamma, but I don't recall where the option is, you might have to use the help>search in the program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Okay, the time has come and... I've got another problem. I've got a Belkin USB Capture Device. It comes with Ulead Video Studio 6. I've got Video Studio 7, Premier Pro 1.5 and Move Maker 2, so I haven't installed this program. Loaded up Ulead to capture the PS2 and it captures... but in black and white. Tinkered with the settings, changed it to PAL (I'm in the UK, so this helps I guess...), changed the size but its still black and white. Next up was Premier Pro and it cant even find the device. Finally, Movie Maker has the same problem of black and white only. The leads fit, although I haven't gone round the back to put the audio in, but surely audio is not to blame to a black and white video. So, can anyonr tell me where I'm going wrong, and maybe, just maybe, I'll have a video sometime soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I may be mistaken but some software/device combinations will show the capture window in black and white, but the imported file will be in normal colour. As for software not recognizing hardware.... it's your worst nightmare, good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 No luck. Saved in a couple of formats, still wont do it in colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 No luck. Saved in a couple of formats, still wont do it in colour. Sorry, I'm out of ideas... I don't know the PAL format either. I guess you can find all the helpme files or call their support line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 "Lets you capture video from camcorders, PC cameras, VCRs, or other analog video sources" PLEASE tell me the PS2 is an analog source... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 "Lets you capture video from camcorders, PC cameras, VCRs, or other analog video sources" PLEASE tell me the PS2 is an analog source... The PS2 A/V plugs are analog, yeah. Does your device have an S-video input? You could try a 4GBP adapter cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 It does have an S-Video bit, but I want to try to get colour first. I found a PAL Driver and downloaded that to make sure, it still wont save in colour. I'm about to try and plug it into the back of my computer with all the audio and cables as well, and I'll have to try and force Premier into finding it somehow. Even though I dont know how to use Premier... Any ideas why it doesn't save in colour? The manual states the quality shown in the preview window may appear jerky, and also says that this jerkyness will not appear in the final move clip. I may even try to load Ulead 6 on, but surely Ulead 7 would work with this thing. Right. Be a while before I reply here again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Okay, Ulead 6.0 is installed, and the audio cables are in, everything it set for PAL DV AVI. The audio records, no problems. I'm still in black and white, capturing and saving then playing back. No colour anywhere. Damn it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I really don't know why, sorry. Does the manual have a troubleshooting section? You've probably already looked at that eh... **Also a note to everyone about hosting videos: it looks like thegamersalliance.com is now requiring registration not only to upload, but now also to download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Theres absolutely no trouble shoot in the manual. All 8 pages of it. According to Premier, these are the properties of recored clips using WMM: Type: Windows Media File Size: 286.582 KB (I just recored the Browser and Memory Card contents screen) Image Size: 320 x 240 (default) Pixel Depth: 32 (I have never seen an option so I can change this, and all options that were available have been changed and tested in whatetever way) Frame Rate: 25.00 (PAL) Source Audio Format: 44100 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo Conform Audio Format: 32000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo Total Duration: 00;00;08;02 Average Data Rate: 35.4678 MB/ second Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0 So, I'm guessing a pixel depth of 32 is greyscale. Recording in another format gave me 16, so it changes. I'm yet to record in a bigger size. And Pixel Aspect Ratio makes me go 'WTF?' Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 (edited) Pixel aspect ratio won't matter much: http://www.lurkertech.com/lg/pixelaspect.html I'll hunt around google for capturing in colour. EDIT: Here's the Adobe discussion forum: Premiere Pro forum Edited February 23, 2005 by Mxyzptlk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingjad Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 (edited) Legoman found a video convertor! I downloaded it and now I can show off gotups294's vids in my own lol, cos I was able to convert it. I forget the link and I'm too lazy and busy to look, maybe Legoman can give the link. EDIT: Click here for it. Moonkea, hope you get your problem sorted out soon. Edited February 23, 2005 by Kingjad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 SUCCESS!!! Nobody mention 'RGB 24' to me again... Right, come the weekend, I may have some footage. But I may not. And I hope it still works by the weekend. Which it will. Wont it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 SUCCESS!!! Nobody mention 'RGB 24' to me again... Tell us your secret! Sounds like it was set to grayscale or CMYK? Was it set or mac, windows or monitor maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 The Compression / Color space option before capturing was set to 'YUY2' I'm guessing that has something to do with NTSC. Changing every NTSC I could find to PAL was easy enough but the colour was still grey. I gave up and watched TV Dad came home and wanted to know how it was used so he could use it (Which he's not...). I still couldn't find the colour so I tried changing this 'YUY2' to 'RGB 24', et viola. Colour. Beautiful colour. I love colour. Now I need to choose whether I practise on Premiere or stick with the simplicity of WMM... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Premiere is pretty intuitive I think, until you decide to do keyframes... I hate them! I've never heard of YUY2, and I majored in television production.... weird one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_magenheimer Posted February 24, 2005 Author Share Posted February 24, 2005 and I majored in television production.... Well that would explain your vids. Where'd you go to college? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosAlert Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Sorry to bump this up, but are there any good USB capture devices like this one? Somewhere around £30-40... Amazon don't seem to have many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_magenheimer Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 Sorry to bump this up, but are there any good USB capture devices like this one? Somewhere around £30-40... Amazon don't seem to have many. Sorry it took so long to reply, I didn't see that someone had posted here until now... Anyway, the device you posted a link to is actually a rather good choice. A friend of mine uses one for his old analog videocamera. Are you looking for something slightly different? EDIT: Just realized you're looking for something in the UK... Sorry about that, I'll see what I can find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Why does WMM double my recorded footage to 640x480? And is there a way of changing that or shall I just learn some more things on Premiere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWEETSAPRIK Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 (edited) Why does WMM double my recorded footage to 640x480? And is there a way of changing that or shall I just learn some more things on Premiere? what version of wmm? For instance I have 5.1 and on mine you click: File Save Movie File select "save to computer" then click next name the file and choose where you want it to save then click next then on the next dialog choose "other settings" or if this isn't shown click "show more options" then "other settings" now as you switch through those settings the dipslay size (along with other information) should be displayed at the bottom right. hope this helped Edited February 28, 2005 by SWEETSAPRIK PяopagaиdaIиc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonkea Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 5 versions? I thought there was Movie Maker 1 and Movie Maker 2. Anyway, I'll check that out, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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