Re: ZOE2 SE Survival Game play videos
Hi again
I'm back with more videos. I've done a lengthy Phobos Vicinity Survival play - 1124 kills.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 7657C1E5F8 There is a playlist with them all so far.
I hope to do an extreme playthrough (of much nicer quality than the one up) and will be uploading what im calling my "cheap speed run" in an attempt to basically finish the game in under an hour, which I do, but I've done it quicker than I manage to here cause I bloody died twice for no reason, and BALL SUCKED on the big...cannon...thing before you get to the underground sphere to fight fake anubis etc...
Here's just how I recorded the videos for the person who wanted to know
The easiest way to record gaming videos (and the cheapest as it can get expensive - yes, you have to invest a little bit of money ideally) is to buy yourself some form of external capture card - Search for the Dazzle DVC 100 - not sure what it's price is in USD, but it costs around £25-£40 over in the UK depending whether you get it online or in a major retailer like Curries or Maplin.
The Dazzle DVC 100 capture card (a USB device) basically has 3 COMPOSITE inputs (these are the Red, White Audio and Yellow video cable inputs you find on older TV's and most likely will be the cables you'll have with your PS2 so it can OUTPUT on your TV) and an S-Video input port. S-video gives you better quality, but is expensive.
After that you'll need a splitter. You can (with the software you get with the Dazzle DVC100 - which is the cheapest card) watch and capture footage at teh same time on your computer, but for better gameplay, it's better to do this on your TV. Basically you need a splitter to let 1 output source (your PS2) be output into 2 different devices, one being your computer so you can record the footage and the other to your TV. The splitter must have at least 2 OUTPUT ports to do this. My splitter box cost me £25.
I advise you download a program called Pinnacle Studio 12 Ultimate (find a cracked version from a safe place) and if you like sony vegas pro 9. People say you should use this to improve the quality of your videos greatly, which it does, but I find it just ads about 3 hours to the whole process (even on fast PCS it encodes slowly) so I'd just honestly, stick with the best capture settings in pinnacle studio 12 (must be in MPEG format) and dont even bother to use the "make movie" fucntion.
When Pinnacle studio 12 captures something, it makes an semi processed MPEG. It's literally what it captures. I've played around and found that simply uploading these to youtube gives you HD quality videos (in terms of youtube anyway) and they're more than acceptable to watch. my videos are probably some of the better ZOE 2 ones out there in terms of quality.
Hope that helps.