lordhelmet's Guide for HD Video

After receiving a lot of questions concerning recording in general, I decided to whip this up to save time in the long run :D

Unless you have a Hauppauge you will need something like a Dazzle or PVT.

You will need:
A Dazzle or PVT
Splitters
Sony Vegas (Version 8 recommended)

Dazzle:

• Pros:
  Easy to find
  Very good quality (when done right)
  Streaming Capability (Streaming Guide)
  
• Cons:
  Pain in the ***
  Buggy
  Requires software (you will have to update the driver if you have Windows 7)

PVT:

• Pros:
  Extremely convinent
  Nearly bug-free
  Portable
  
• Cons:
  No streaming capabilty
  Not as good quality
  Difficult to find
  FAT32 External Drive required (If your drive is over 32GB you will have to partition a section that is under 32GB and then format it to FAT32)

I personally have both a Dazzle and a PVT. After pulling my hair out from the glitchy Dazzle, I bought a PVT from Ebay for $50 (street price is $100). I won't get into splitters (splitters information here), but I will tell you to buy them off Amazon for the best price.

1. Once you have everything set up you will need to do the following:
2. Go to your Wii settings and set it to "Widescreen" and position the screen at "0"
3. Boot Brawl and under "Options" change the screen to "Widescreen"
4. Record selected clip(s)
5. Drop video(s) into Sony Vegas and drag them onto the timeline
6. Right click the first clip "Switches" -> "Maintain Aspect Ratio" uncheck that
   
   
7. Click the crop symbol at the right end of the video clip in the timeline, crop it just enough to get rid of the black bars on the side. When you're done save the template for later use.
   
   
8. Right click the first clip and "Copy" it, then right click the first clip again and hit "Select Events to End", finally right click the selected clips "Past Event Attributes". Now all of your clips are widescreen! (Note: if you have some clips you do not want to highlight or have other clips on a different track, CTRL + Click them to highlight / deselect them.
9. NOW begin editing.
10. When you are finished edited, go to "File" -> "Render As" and copy these settings:
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

Obviously I do not know everything about recording and editing, if you know of anything I haven't put in here, please let me know.

I think that's all, chances are I forgot something, though.

http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=10709150&postcount=5

Here's an old guide I wrote up to improve recording quality


My best picture quality

My guide is mainly focusing on Happauge HD PVR because that's the only device I have. We should combine efforts and write up a super recording guide that covers everything (that Smashers use)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yckNBcDHgDs
http://www.youtube.com/user/BrawlPrincess

Is this your video/channel?

Mhm. I didn't put those through Vegas because I just wanted to get them up.

BTW, I made this guide for AiB and just ported it over here.