I've been out of the office the last couple of days so this is my first chance to thanks for all the suggestion - cheers!
As the content we need to record is pretty CPU intensive, these software-only solutions don't quite cut it even on our fastest machine.
James - I did consider going for a HDMI card but decided to save some pennies and get a VGA/RGB capture card that supports various resolutions up to 1600x1200. This is plenty for our requirements. Here's the link:
http://www.iviewdata.com/data/modules.php?name=catalog&file=product_info&cPath=22&products_id=30
I'm still waiting for it arrive, but here's a sample of its performance capabilities...
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Using a P4, 3.2 Ghz computer, with a Asus P5GD2 motherboard, 1 disk dedicated to the Operating System, and 3 extra drive to handle the video stream.
performances:
1024x768, 16 bit @ 66 fps. CPU load is 33 %, direct to disk, no frame drop.
1280x1024, 16 bit @ 40 fps, CPU load is 40%, direct to disk, no frame drop.
1280x1024, 32 bit (BRGx) @ 20 fps, CPU load is 20%, direct to disk, no frame drop.
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Thanks again
Phil
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From: owner-xsi@Softimage.COM on behalf of James De Colling
Sent: Mon 03/12/2007 10:08
To: XSI@Softimage.COM
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Subject: Re: OT: Full Screen capture @ up to 30fps
might be a long shot...but what about a black magic intensity? its hdmi
in / out, so you could pump the output from video card into the
intensity, then back out to the monitor, whilst recording (it does
1920x1080 recording I believe...so plenty of res im guessing)...although
you might need some sort of dvi splitter as well if you wanted
james,
Hajo ten Thije wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> still no answers yet? Maybe you want to give Wisdom's
> AutoScreenRecorder a try. It seems to be able to capture 1024+
> resolutions at 30fps. There's a free version too.
> http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/autoscreenrecorder.htm
> Hajo
>
>
> Phil Williams schrieb:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I want to use screen capture recording software / hardware to record
>> an interactive application that includes a lot of processor-intensive
>> animation at 1024 by 768. As we need to show the interactivity, it
>> needs to be a screen capture.
>>
>> I canât use Camtasia or similar because itâs dependant on the CPU for
>> displaying AND recording the images to the hard drive and therefore
>> drops too many frames (fine for tutorials but we are showcasing work
>> that needs to run at the full frame rate).
>>
>> Iâve tried Virtual VCR alongside Hmelyoff Labs' custom driver
>> VHScrCap to pass much of the workload over to the graphics card and
>> the number of dropped frames is half that of Camtasia. However, there
>> are still dropped frames and Iâm restricted to PAL resolution.
>>
>> Does anyone know of dedicated hardware to solve this problem? Maybe
>> two machines linked together?
>>
>> Any help much appreciated.
>>
>>
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