What do you guys use to film?

**Shorneh** · Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 129 Location: Danville, Illinois

I've seen a lot of videos posted on youtube.com, and googlevideo, but I never understood how you people do that?

PLEASE OH PLEASE...

How do you record your awesome playing?

**GuitarRanger** · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 101 Location: Southwest Michigan

Umm, with some sort of video recorder probably. I have a webcam that doubles as a video recorder, hooked to the comp and you could just save the file right there. My playing isn't special enough to submit a video though...when I'm done just trying to pass expert, I might submit some proofs for easy to get some contribution points.

Passed CFH a little while ago! Zakk Wylde, I'm coming for you next...fear me.

Edit: The actual name for the device I have would PC Video Camera, look for one of those. If your computer isn't close to your TV, look for a regular Video Camcorder and some Digital Cameras have a recorder in them too.
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**Anthony** · Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 659 Location: Cali

A camera...maybe?
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**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

i used my webcam to film once, it was a poor performance, i may try get my mates video camera to film sometime

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**discgolferpro** · Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 861 Location: Kansas City, Mo

You'll have to give us an idea of your budget. Do you have a camcorder / webcam / VCR / cam phone / DV camera? All methods have different *price entry points* versus *ease of use* versus *video quality* considerations.

Personally, I use a Panasonic PV-GS59 Multicam which does everything I need.

For photo stills, it captures and stores them directly to a removable 512 MB SD Memory Card. I pop it into a USB reader and out comes the .jpg picture ready for upload.

For video it's a 3 step process:
- Capture the video onto the MiniDV tape (up to 60 minutes)
- Plug the cam (using a USB cable) into my laptop
- Dump the contents of the tape on hard drive with Quick Movie Magic (1 GB per 4 minutes), then I convert and compress the DV-AVI video to an .ASF file for electronic distribution (12 MB per 4 minutes). QMM does all the hard work automatically.

That's it!

Maybe other members can post their own prefered method of capturing video and pictures. We can then put it in a Sticky for everyone's reference. I have never tried to connect the PS2 to a VCR and never tried to grab the composite signal directly. Has anyone else?
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**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

**GuitarRanger** · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 101 Location: Southwest Michigan

Technology these days. Eventually, brains will be hot-swappable and you just clunk it into a robot and it goes to work for you and stuff. Now, there is the problem where your body won't actually be able to do anything. Unless you buy the premium version which copies all instructions from your brain and sends them through your body with a pocket-sized electric pulse distributer.

^ WTF? Sorry, just a little amped up since I beat the game on every difficulty! Fine, that means nothing here. I did it in 11 days, does that help at all? Now to actually get good scores...

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**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

took me 2 months to complete it in every difficulty

i had a job to go to mind you Mr. Green

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**GuitarRanger** · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 101 Location: Southwest Michigan

I have a job. TO ROCK! That came off a little more lame than I expected. I should get one of those thingies since I would like get an HDTV for my
Xbox.

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**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

I just used my webcam to record when I recorded. I used my "ghetto cam" rig that I found on the GH forums, recorded, and saved it to my computer directly. From there, I took it to Windows Movie Maker, saved the movie, and ran it through WinAVI Movie Converter to shrink the size.
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**Shorneh** · Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 129 Location: Danville, Illinois

I looked over your post, Hylian, and found that WinAVI is an excellent way to convert videos into smaller wmvs. I just have one question, when you record using your webcam, is there a specific program that you used? For some odd reason, mine only wants to record only a minute of video...and I hate it.[I got some really good Frankenstein happening, when it suddenly stopped filming.]

**Sparda** · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 4

I use Dazzle. I picked it up at Circuit City for around 70 bucks.You can probably get it alot cheaper off the net.

**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland