Films

[Kelburn]

Does anyone know how I can connect my MiniDV video camera to my computer in a way that will allow me to film what is on screen?

Also does anyone know the software that was used to make Shrek and other animation movies like that?
If so is there any way to get that software (or any like it preferably for free?)

[Alex]

You could always just record the screen with the camera, then transfer the footage to the computer afterwards if that would be easier.

You could always try some software like Art of Illusion or Blender (both free) if you are interested in doing some 3D rendering etc.

Alex

[Kelburn]

Unfortunately this means I get a screen flicker

[Alex]

If that happens, I'm pretty sure it would occur regardless of whether you were saving the footage straight to your computer or transferring it later...

Alex

[Kelburn]

What I mean is doing the same sort of thing as fraps does but through my camcorder

[Alex]

Yea, if your screen flickers when viewed through your camcorder I don't think there is a lot you can do to prevent that.

Alex

[Kelburn]

I mean like this:

http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/howto/video.htm

but I only have a USB and the usual Video in for T.V.

[Alex]

Ah, so you want to record video onto the video camera using the video-out port of your graphics card. So, two questions. Does your graphics card have a video-out port? Does your video camera have a corresponding video-in port?

Ales

[Kelburn]

My camcorder has:

USB, DV (?? dunno what it is), A/V Out and LANC (again ?? Dunno what it is)

I wouldn't know where to look on the back of my PC. I have a default Intel Integrated Graphics card

[Alex]

If you do have the Integrated graphics card I would say that it would quite tricky to do, maybe even not possible. I'm not sure whether your DV port accepts video input (if it doesn't, then there is nothing that you can really do), if it does; you would need to find some sort of cable that does VGA to DV (I've never heard of anything like this - but who knows). Seeing as you have integrated graphics, I'm assuming you only have one VGA-out port. So you would need to unplug your monitor and plug in the cable (the one that may or may not exist), or get a splitter like the ones Matrox do.

Make sense?

Alex

[ZKTOM]

Is that like on that guy's cellphone kel

[ardypilot]

Camtasia studio records the screen like with fraps- but has way more options. It saves the recording as .wmv, .mpeg, .avi etc which you can then just transfer to your video camera via USB and playback on the LCD screen.

Demo here: www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp