Video Capturing Help

[Guitarman314]

I own a dazzle DVC 90 capture card and have been using it for a good year. Ive recently decided to test drive the new windows, windows 7. Its great and all but i noticed that it didnt come with WMM thats what i use for my capturing not editing.... so i go and DL the new WMM 2.6 or something like that and it works and all but it doesnt have a capture from video device feature. I am looking for a video capturing program that saves the files as a WMV not an AVI, AVI's are just too big and my HDD doesnt have that much room when im trying to record some halo 3 match footage. Some one help please! Edited May 31, 2009 by Guitarman314

[Pargy]

Use the pinnacle **** that came with the cap card, or use vegas, there are alot of programs that capture stuff.

[Guitarman314]

Use the pinnacle **** that came with the cap card, or use vegas, there are alot of programs that capture stuff.

 

yeah but im looking for a program that saves the captured video as an wmv not avi

[Pargy]

...just convert it

[Guitarman314]

...just convert it

 

I have no HDD space to capture it in the first place so converting would be useless

[iBotPeaches]

Video editing requires a large HD.

 

I don't know what to say, you need better specs to do what your trying. Otherwise stick with XP.

[Pargy]

I have no HDD space to capture it in the first place so converting would be useless

 

...how the hell are you going to capture it if you dont have any space?

 

Buy a external HDD or delete **** or something

[matty0]

cmon guys lets try an b a bit more helpful than negative.

 

ok so your problem is you dont have the space to reccord to in the first place so recording 2 a big file then encoding it to something smaller wont work cos u cant reccord it in the first place lol...

 

right, well i suggest u either buy a slave HDD (if u can run win7 i assume ur somp can handleIDE disk drives) so i would try an buy something like THIS a 160GB Seagate Baracuda. itl b rly fast, rly reliable an its less than $40... so rly u have no excuse.

 

if you genuinely cant afford that an u dont wanna go on a deleting spree on ur pc, i recomend getting yourself a windows live "SkyDrive" this is basicaly 25gb of free online storage space just for having a hotmail account... win.

you cant use this as an actual HDD but you can use it as a "virtual drive" which means you cant just save files onto it like you would a normal hdd, but you can move things onto it for storage. so i reccomend u move all ur movies an things onto there and only have what u need on your physical disk, so that u have the optimum space you can manage for your recordings.

 

just a note btw, on vista and 7 there are only 2 programs that capture from Dazzle cards, and they are "Pinnacle Studio 11" and "Pinnacle Studio 12 (Plus)" so your gona hav 2 get one of them rly.

 

i personaly recomend dual booting, vista still hasnt surpassed the brilliance of xp yet so i cant quite leave it behind, but hey if you dont have the space thats not an option. so yeah, i hope this has helped a little

[PREPPY DIABLO]

For space you could also compress stuff with winRAR.

[lostmodz26]

This is the perfect question for me to answer.

 

#1 - USE INSTANT DVD RECORDER! It comes with your Dazzle (well atleast is came with my Dazzle DVC100 Red)

#2 - If you don't have it, I'll gladly upload it for you and give you my serial.

#3 - It's only 60 mb, and yeah, I know what your talking about with capturing in windows movie maker.