true true.trythil wrote:If you like Macrovision screwing with your footage, then, yeah, that works great.madbunny wrote:actually. You DON'T need a dvd drive. If you have a capture card you can capture footage via cable at 1:1 speed.
Otherwise, you'll need some additional hardware to repair the signal, or get a capture card that isn't affected by attempts to bork the automatic gain control.
Of course, I don't remember when it was, but I believe the supreme court ruled that you are allowed to make copies of your DVDs via pointing a video camera at the screen too.
I was just pointing out that there are all sorts of ways to do things. I had a student capture game footage in exactly the same say (using a capture card. Personally I like the idea of using HD raw captures, but they are kind of hard to come by (lots of fake upscales and such floating around).
bork... hahah... bork.