Recording to Camcorder

[Ruger22C]

My camcorder only supports up to 1024x768 resolution, but it's difficult for me to spot my targets at a resolution that low. I normally play at 1600x1200. When I try to record playing in this resolution, anything above 1024x768 is cut off of the recording.

My question is this: Is there any way for me to play at 1600x1200, but have it resize the image so that it fits on my camcorder?

Thank you, Signed,
Spark Johnson.

 

[Ruger22C]

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[Ruger22C]

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[Ruger22C]

Bump.

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[Sc4freak]

What? What exactly are you trying to do? You've been quite vague...

You usually play what at 1600x1200? What are you trying to record? Spot what targets? As far as I can tell, you're doing something on your computer (playing Counterstrike is my guess) at 1600x1200 and want to record it and store it on your camcorder. That's all I could discern from the information you gave, and if its correct then I have no idea why a camcorder would limit resolution if its digital. Resolution is only limited to space available. If it is not digital and uses tapes, then there's plenty of video editing software available. VirtualDub is a good, free one. When you capture the video to your computer, use VirtualDub to resize it to a 1024x768 and then transfer it to your camcorder (...although I still have no idea why you're transferring it to a camcorder especially if its non-digital). That should get rid of the cropping issues.

 

[Ruger22C]

I was pretty tired when I posted, and never thought to go over it later. I appologize about that.

I'm trying to record myself playing PC games-similiar to counter strike, yes. I've tried using FRAPs, but it's a massive FPS killing program. I have an S-Video out on my video card, so I hooked up a camcorder to that. It's recognized as a second screen, and screen one(CRT) is cloned onto screen two(Camcorder). However, the problem is that I play my games using a resolution of 1600x1200, but the camcorder cannot record anything over 1024x768. Therefore, it slices off a large portion of the video. If I were to simply play my games at 1024x768, then it would record fine - yes. But, I have a hard time playing my games at a resolution that low, because I have a hard time seeing what I'm doing.
What I need then, is something that will clone the video, but allow for seperate resolutions. That way, I can play my games in 1600x1200, and record in 1024x768.

Catalyst drivers have something similar to what I need, it will shrink the video of screen two--but it doesn't do it nearly enough to fit.

I hope that was clearer.

Thank you, Signed,
Spark Johnson.

 

[rbV5]

However, the problem is that I play my games using a resolution of 1600x1200, but the camcorder cannot record anything over 1024x768.

S-Video out is always 480i for NTSC. "Clone" mode means exactly that as well (both displays = same resolution).

You'll need to game at max resolution supported by your TV out full screen(1024x768 in your case) which will actually be mapped full screen to 480i when sent via TV-out for recording.

In other words, your maximum, full screen game resolution will be 1024x768. Your camcorder will be recording it mapped to 480i resolution (~640x480)

Key points;

*Game resolutions >1024x768 will result in "big desktop" for TV-out (1024x768 viewable "window" over the larger game resolution)

*NTSC TV-out is always 480i (S-Video or Composite (RCA)