Capture card help/advise.

Reficx · 16 Feb 2011 at 17:02

So I want to get a capture card to start recording gameplay and make a montage with a friend but I'm looking to see what the best capture card would be.

I've been looking around the most popular seem to be either Dazzle or Happauge HD PVR. But the Dazzle quality looks terrible on tests I've seen.
HD PVR looks good but I've been browsing and found new capture card just realised Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle, looks pretty promising.

Blackmagic:

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/

Happauge:

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/77913...pe=allproducts&searchsource=0&urlrefer=search

This is for Xbox 360 recording, I want the best quality possible, lag free.

Any ideas on the best to choose?

5punk3monk3y · 16 Feb 2011 at 17:17

neither everyone is bored of QS montages and optic predator wannabes

Reficx · 16 Feb 2011 at 17:42

Not talking about QS Montages or anything like that lol.
Talking about competitive gaming and stopping people disputing etc.

5punk3monk3y · 16 Feb 2011 at 17:45

In that case Black Magic all the way

Reficx · 17 Feb 2011 at 01:36

Hmm, thanks.
Anyone else got any ideas?

daz.rathbone · 17 Feb 2011 at 08:36

Bought the Hava, which records in SD but has component passthrough so you get to play in HD still. This was really good, cheap, and versatile (you can use it to stream directly onto lan/internet).

I then decided to go HD, and I toyed with the BlackMagic Shuttle or Intensity, but eventually got the Hauppauge HD PVR, and am very pleased with it.

Reficx · 17 Feb 2011 at 15:41

Thanks, will just have to look at a few tests then and decide.

Macky · 17 Feb 2011 at 16:06

Hauppage seems to be the one to go for if your PC isn't quite up to scratch.

Reficx · 18 Feb 2011 at 01:37

What do you mean if your PC isn't up to scratch?

norm · 18 Feb 2011 at 10:32

I have a Blackmagic Intensity PCI express card which I used to record footage from the 360. I have a for sale thread if you're interested.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=18494826

You can record using lossless compression (1280x720 @ 60fps, or, 1920x1080i @ 30fps), RAID0 array required. Alternatively you can use the Blackmagic MJPEG codec which has perfectly good results and use only one HDD.

It's very easy to capture/edit using VirtualDub.

Here's a look at some of the video I recorded (you have to take account for the Youtube compression, the actual raw video before uploading is way better quality, I can link a raw video if you like).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqy7kYBN3ow

HAz · 18 Feb 2011 at 10:37

you must be pro gamer

Reficx · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:24

What was the point of that post Haz?
Looks good Norm, but my pc is crap lol.

norm · 18 Feb 2011 at 16:43

Reficx said:
What was the point of that post Haz?
Looks good Norm, but my pc is crap lol.

You don't need anything overly fast, a 3ghz dual core CPU will capture 1280x720 @ 60fps using the MJPEG codec.

HAz · 18 Feb 2011 at 22:09

Reficx said:
What was the point of that post Haz?
Looks good Norm, but my pc is crap lol.

well if i had a capture card and uploaded some movies or whatever you call them to youtube. People would just laugh at how crap iam.