question (surprise)

[Mastashake]

First of, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Seconds, does anyone know how to capture the "recorded" battles from Homeworld missions? By this I mean make them accessable to Premiere and the like. I know it is doable, simply due to the fact that for promotional uses, Sierra was aple to supply the gaming public with scenes of pitch battles and harvesting. This is related to a monumental (truly) project that I have become involved in and I am being motivated to an unforseen level to see this one through.

[klinky]

one computer to another with a capture card :p

Or TV out to VCR, back into computer via capture card.


I don't think there is a actual homeworld > AVI converter out there :p

[Mastashake]

Does anyone have a favorite TV out card, preference or otherwise divine technotips for this little endeaver?

[madmallard]

matrox dual head

[Aetherfukz]

You could use a Program like SnagIt, which captures avi files even from within games... just google for it, I don't have the URL handy right now...

[klinky]

I am guessing the game would get all choppy when trying to compress some huffYUV footage of it, or even MJPEG :\

It's worth a shot though.

Any card that could give you TV should work. Most use S-Video(in fact I don't know of any that do it any other way). So your VCR/Capture card would have to support S-Video in. Which I believe if you get a firewire card + breakout box that wouldn't be a problem.


~klinky

[Aetherfukz]

If there is a replay function or something like that, it could work without hardware support, though. That's how I got footage from Jedi Knight II, I recorded a ingame demo, and via console I made 25 screenshots per second. JPGVideo, voila. Avi.