Record Your Game Play to Use it Creatively

Recording the game play while you are playing a console video game can be useful for various purposes. You can create a video strategy guide or review with it. Or you can feature those game clips in some other creative effort, with the help of the footage which you can store on your computer and edit it. There are numerous ways with which you can record your game play on your computer, each having a different level of ease, quality and cost. Chinavasion.com has various cool electronic gadgets including video and call recorder, game camera, solar products and an extensive array of geek gifts, which can be used for recording video games with high quality. Let’s see some of the ways you can record your game play.

Record Your Game play with a Camcorder

If you have a sophisticated camcorder featuring direct video input, it can easily capture your video game footage in high quality. Use a digital splitter cable or RCA from the console in the TV and the camera to send the output of the gaming console into both the devices at the same time. While recording the game play on the camcorder, you can play the game with your TV.

Along with the recording, you can also record commentary in audio if you wish. With this technique, audio commentary can be captured on the video with the help of the onboard mic of the camcorder or by connecting a separate mic. Take care of turning the volume of your TV off before starting recording audio commentary; otherwise your TV’s sound will interfere with the commentary.

Now run the footage of the camcorder into your computer. To save the file on your computer, you can use the memory card or USB cable of your camera. To make changes, open any video editing software from there. Or you can directly upload the video to any video-hosting website if you don’t wish to make any modifications.

Capturing the Footage with a Capture Card

Buy a capture card to use for your computer. A capture card is a small tool that can transform the audio and video signals carried by RCA cables into a USB-prone signal. An internal capture card is worth investing in because it gives high quality capture of video and editing. This internal capture card can be added to a PCI slot of your computer. It is more expensive. If you are on a budget you can use an external capture card which can be plugged into a USB port.

Record the output of your console into both the capture card as well as the TV. With the help of a RCA splitter cable, run the output of gaming console to your capture card for recording and to your TV for playing. The capture should be available with a standard piece of software for creating a video file from the recorded footage.

With the help of your computer, make changes in the recorded footage. After the video file is made, you are able to use any software to edit and compose your video. When you apply this capture card technique, you can generally get excellent results if you add the audio commentary after using the video editing software, instead of doing it right at the time of capturing the recording.

Recording the Game Directly on Computer

Find a video-capturing software and install it on your computer. Recording game play directly on the computer is the most streamlined way of recording games. Start by installing a section of program that can record your computer screen’s video output.

Install an emulator for capturing the video game footage. If computer-based games are to be recorded, you can do so directly. If console games are to be recorded you will require an emulator for that and download the file on ROM for the specific video game.

Keep in mind that to use this technique, you will have to have a USB game controller to use with the computer. For using the controller of the console, a USB adapter will be required.

Keep also in mind that there can be variation between jurisdictions regarding legality of owning and handing out ROM files. As a rule of thumb, owning a ROM file is acceptable only of a video game that you own already in hard copy. Also, using ROM files of gaming consoles which are no longer being produced are usually acceptable.

With the help of recording software, record the video output. Open the any piece of video capturing software and open emulator and upload the exact ROM. Start recording in the software and then run through the desired section of the game. When you are done, emulator can be exited and you can stop recording in the software. You can now save the video file and edit it in any editing program for videos.

Tips

• Several camcorders that enable direct video input are pricey. If you have no camera already which has this feature, give a try to shopping around for used models so that you can save money.
• You can upload the recording to YouTube if you want to.

Things You will Require

For capturing your game play, you will need gaming camera, gaming console, television, RCA splitter cable, microphone, capture card, video capturing and editing software tools, USB gaming controller, console emulator and YouTube account if you want to upload your footage to YouTube.

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