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Smash Hero
Yes, I know this belongs in Videography. However, no one goes there except hardcore people.
ANOTHER WAY TO BYPASS THIS IS TO JUST RECORD TO A VCR AND STREAM SIMULTANEOUSLY. THIS WORKS WELL, TOO. However, it requires BRINGING a VCR and it also requires you having to rebroadcast and capture the footage on your own time. This way makes me feel smart, *****es.
In recent tournaments, it has been a common tradition for someone to bring their laptop and a capture card and broadcast live streams from a station. However, when one does this, a problem arises: they cannot record simultaneously. I learned this through my own experience running the live stream at West Coast Smash League. There is the option of recording directly TO the streaming website. However, that yields very poor quality videos, and it gives one more task to the noble videographer. This is bad in the case of people wanting to have grand finals streamed and recorded. Do you want to have significantly worse quality on quite possibly a great match that will be remembered for a long time? I don't think so.
I've ran into this problem myself at WCSL. The poor stream-viewers were DYING to see the Grand Finals. However, because of the aforementioned problem, it was impossible. We resorted to switching the video source to webcam and putting it on someone's lap pointing at the TV. I thought there had to be a better way.
Alas, I have found one!
This simple method uses a virtual camera program to project the capture card's feed into a single application that can be fed into multiple places. In this case, those "places" are going to be your streaming site and your computer program that records from the capture card. This yields SLIGHTLY lower quality (I haven't observed it enough to identify what aspect of the video is impacted. I believe it's the framerate) however, it's not significant. Once it goes through all the processing that goes into making a combo video or all of the file-****** of YouTube, the difference will be virtually unnoticeable.
GUIDE:
1. Download SplitCam
http://www.splitcamera.com/download.html
2. Install SplitCam
3. Open SplitCam
4. Once it's open, we should make a cosmetic adjustment first. The big screen you see is advertisements, and the tiny one in the corner is the input. Lame, no? That's what happens when you use Freeware. **** good freeware. However, thank God they allow you to switch them: a minor inconvenience. Click "Options" and then "Advertisements" and then "Exchange ad and video windows"
5. File > Framerate > 30 FPS. We want the best possible framerate, no?
6. File > Video source > *your capture card*
In my case, it's "Adaptec Gamebridge Video Capture"
If the video is distorted, change the Video source to anything else ("Desktop" works best) and then change it back to your capture card. It should be normal now.
**I apologize for people who do not have Gamebridges. The next few steps were done with Intervideo Home Theater, which is the default program used to record footage with the Gamebridge. However, you have A BRAIN and should be able to process this data and apply it to your own software
**
7. Open Intervideo Home Theater. If the "Gamebridge" option that is normally there has disappeared, complete the following steps:
a. Start > All Programs > Intervideo > Intervideo Home Theater Config
b. Click the Regional Setup tab
c. Change the capture device to "SplitCam Capture"
d. The "Gamebridge" option should be back in Intervideo Home Theater.
8. Click "Gamebridge"
9. The SplitCamera input should be displaying on the Intervideo Home Theater screen. Press "Record". When I did it, the timer that usually shows recording time is no longer there when I record with this method. Don't be afraid though; it still works.
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Once you have done all of this, it's time to start up the stream:
1. Find a streaming site that you like. Popular ones are:
http://ustream.tv
http://stickam.com
http://justin.tv
http://blogtv.com
uStream is generally the most popular one, but I've run into technical issues running it, so I've steered away in fear. The other ones work just fine, too.
2. Sign up. You should know how to do this. If you don't, you're really just unworthy of me writing this for you, to be honest.
3. Find out how to start a broadcast. It's usually extremely self explanatory. Since I think you should have brains and I don't want to spoonfeed you the directions on this part, I'll leave you to do it on your own.
4. Start the Broadcast. Make the Video Input "SplitCam Video Capture" and make the Audio input whatever you want. I haven't tinkered around with it enough because I honestly don't care what it is. If you can find a way to make the audio come in from your capture card, good job. Want a cookie? Too bad. A cool thing you can do is to make the audio input come from your computer's mic. The streaming channels usually have little chatrooms on them, and you can talk to your audience this way. At the WCSL stream, there was me, Aznforce, J.R. (Baysian barber) and PsychoMidget. A few others spoke as well, but all in all, talking to the streamers was fun.
YAYYYYY YOU'RE DONE.
Extras:
Here is a sample of one of my videos RECORDED this way looks when uploaded to YouTube. Please bear the sound, I didn't feel like shutting off the mic, and my computer's microphone is VERY VERY bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeCOqi0gyN4
You can download the video here so you can see the quality of the pure, unraped file. It's not bad, to be honest.
http://files.filefront.com/TV+1+21+2009+20+57+22mpeg/;13053175;/fileinfo.html
ANOTHER WAY TO BYPASS THIS IS TO JUST RECORD TO A VCR AND STREAM SIMULTANEOUSLY. THIS WORKS WELL, TOO. However, it requires BRINGING a VCR and it also requires you having to rebroadcast and capture the footage on your own time. This way makes me feel smart, *****es.
In recent tournaments, it has been a common tradition for someone to bring their laptop and a capture card and broadcast live streams from a station. However, when one does this, a problem arises: they cannot record simultaneously. I learned this through my own experience running the live stream at West Coast Smash League. There is the option of recording directly TO the streaming website. However, that yields very poor quality videos, and it gives one more task to the noble videographer. This is bad in the case of people wanting to have grand finals streamed and recorded. Do you want to have significantly worse quality on quite possibly a great match that will be remembered for a long time? I don't think so.
I've ran into this problem myself at WCSL. The poor stream-viewers were DYING to see the Grand Finals. However, because of the aforementioned problem, it was impossible. We resorted to switching the video source to webcam and putting it on someone's lap pointing at the TV. I thought there had to be a better way.
Alas, I have found one!
This simple method uses a virtual camera program to project the capture card's feed into a single application that can be fed into multiple places. In this case, those "places" are going to be your streaming site and your computer program that records from the capture card. This yields SLIGHTLY lower quality (I haven't observed it enough to identify what aspect of the video is impacted. I believe it's the framerate) however, it's not significant. Once it goes through all the processing that goes into making a combo video or all of the file-****** of YouTube, the difference will be virtually unnoticeable.
GUIDE:
1. Download SplitCam
http://www.splitcamera.com/download.html
2. Install SplitCam
3. Open SplitCam
4. Once it's open, we should make a cosmetic adjustment first. The big screen you see is advertisements, and the tiny one in the corner is the input. Lame, no? That's what happens when you use Freeware. **** good freeware. However, thank God they allow you to switch them: a minor inconvenience. Click "Options" and then "Advertisements" and then "Exchange ad and video windows"
5. File > Framerate > 30 FPS. We want the best possible framerate, no?
6. File > Video source > *your capture card*
In my case, it's "Adaptec Gamebridge Video Capture"
If the video is distorted, change the Video source to anything else ("Desktop" works best) and then change it back to your capture card. It should be normal now.
**I apologize for people who do not have Gamebridges. The next few steps were done with Intervideo Home Theater, which is the default program used to record footage with the Gamebridge. However, you have A BRAIN and should be able to process this data and apply it to your own software
**7. Open Intervideo Home Theater. If the "Gamebridge" option that is normally there has disappeared, complete the following steps:
a. Start > All Programs > Intervideo > Intervideo Home Theater Config
b. Click the Regional Setup tab
c. Change the capture device to "SplitCam Capture"
d. The "Gamebridge" option should be back in Intervideo Home Theater.
8. Click "Gamebridge"
9. The SplitCamera input should be displaying on the Intervideo Home Theater screen. Press "Record". When I did it, the timer that usually shows recording time is no longer there when I record with this method. Don't be afraid though; it still works.
------------------------------------------------------
Once you have done all of this, it's time to start up the stream:
1. Find a streaming site that you like. Popular ones are:
http://ustream.tv
http://stickam.com
http://justin.tv
http://blogtv.com
uStream is generally the most popular one, but I've run into technical issues running it, so I've steered away in fear. The other ones work just fine, too.
2. Sign up. You should know how to do this. If you don't, you're really just unworthy of me writing this for you, to be honest.
3. Find out how to start a broadcast. It's usually extremely self explanatory. Since I think you should have brains and I don't want to spoonfeed you the directions on this part, I'll leave you to do it on your own.
4. Start the Broadcast. Make the Video Input "SplitCam Video Capture" and make the Audio input whatever you want. I haven't tinkered around with it enough because I honestly don't care what it is. If you can find a way to make the audio come in from your capture card, good job. Want a cookie? Too bad. A cool thing you can do is to make the audio input come from your computer's mic. The streaming channels usually have little chatrooms on them, and you can talk to your audience this way. At the WCSL stream, there was me, Aznforce, J.R. (Baysian barber) and PsychoMidget. A few others spoke as well, but all in all, talking to the streamers was fun.
YAYYYYY YOU'RE DONE.
Extras:
Here is a sample of one of my videos RECORDED this way looks when uploaded to YouTube. Please bear the sound, I didn't feel like shutting off the mic, and my computer's microphone is VERY VERY bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeCOqi0gyN4
You can download the video here so you can see the quality of the pure, unraped file. It's not bad, to be honest.
http://files.filefront.com/TV+1+21+2009+20+57+22mpeg/;13053175;/fileinfo.html
