Recording?

[Daikun]

I'm just curious: What do the admins use to record bumps from their TVs?

Do you use a capture card, a DVD recorder, or other means?

[mongo]

Currently, capure cards only way to get HD, and the cleanest source. We have used DVDs, however, with pretty good results as well. And some of the older bumps get the VHS treatment .

[NumyMufn]

Those DVD bumps look a lot worse now since the HD revolution   

[mongo]

-Everything- looks a lot worse since the HD revolution . Fun fact; most standard def bumps came from my capture card, hooked up to my fabulously analog cable signal.

[Beefy]

For SD content: I have a DVR that I use to record the entire block.  Then I browse through the recordings for the clips I want, and capture them to my PC using a Pinnacle MovieBox DV.  This is a FireWire box because FireWire provides a constant data rate, which is good for capturing video, unlike USB which is a variable data rate.

For HD content: Hauppauge Colossus PCIe capture card.  I don't have a HD DVR, so I use a PC to record the block.  Recording the video is the easy part, finding a program that can manipulate the recorded video is difficult.

Since the flooding in Taiwan last year caused hard drive prices to go up, I haven't gotten any new hard drives since then.  I'll need to start recording over some stuff from last year pretty soon.

I was fortunate to have a pretty good quality picture for CN on the SD feed (except in 2007-8).  If I ever get some extra time I'll try replacing some of the poorer looking SD bumps with a better version.  Most of them have already been remastered.

[MrHang]

I just use my Mac Mini plugged directly into my cable box!  It's got a nice firewire port in the back that's perfect for the high speed capture.  I just write to a scratch drive so I don't wear out my internal drive since I do a TON of video capturing