From a cam to computer

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Doffy90

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I have recorded a few CG scenes from games and now I want to take them out from the camera and to my computer and I tried doing that using WinDV and it worked but the movie became all blurry, anyone know of another program I can use?
 
Please explain... Did you film the computer screen with your camera or did you plug it into a video-out port? Have you tried Windows Movie Maker?
 
Starwarsman is correct. If you used a camera to record the images on your computer screen, then it would come out all blurry and flash a lot. The most effective way to record video from your computer is to use a video card that has video out and record the video on to a VCR or DVD recorder.
 
Another option would be a video capture card. You can plug the Svideo or RCA inputs into the unit, hook it to the computer by USB and record straight from the source. If you have a firewire connection on your camera, you can also hook your camera to the capture card and transfer video that way.
 
Even easier is to use software designed for the purpose. I highly recommend Fraps. It will record up to 1280x720@60fps in any program that uses DirectX or OpenGL (in other words, pretty much any game). The output is ready-made AVI files, ready to load into your editor. It's a beautiful thing! I use it all the time.
 
Fraps is good, but it can massively affect frame rates. Very rarely do you get a 60fps when recording with it (well I don't anyway).
 
I used to do 1/4 size, 512x384@30fps with not much problem, but then I got a new video card (X800XL) and a little more memory, and I was surprised by the terrific performance boost. Previously there had been a fair amount of stutter while I was recording, however that was only in the game, not the recording. The clips themselves were generally slightly lower fps than the game would have been if Fraps hadn't been running, if that makes sense (it's late). Also that was back in the day when Fraps wasn't as compatible as nowadays; there were some games it just plain didn't record well. The last few versions haven't had that problem at all, and I record a wide variety of games.

After my upgrade (and my computer is still barely above middle-of-the-road, I should point out), there was so little performance loss, even recording full screen at 40-60fps, that I sometimes got lost as to whether I was recording or not! I would end up with a whole bunch of 4gb files, video of everything except what I thought I was recording. :P

Finally I got wise and installed a program that puts a HDD activity light on the screen, since the hard drive going crazy is the best indication that recording is in process. That fixed the problem.
 
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