One of the requirements of getting an ESRB rating is you have to submit a video of of your game play with the application. By the way GGBS is will be rated "E" for Everyone, so kids to your grand mother can enjoy our game. Creating this video was a real pain and took me much longer than expected. I wasn't concerned about the video quality so I first got a cheap USB video capture device made by Pinacle. The captured quality was so bad, total waste of money. I ended up taking the dev kit to my parents who have a DVD recorder and captured the output that way, of course the video is only standard definition. The quality was marginally better than using the computer. So I had a dvd video and now I need to convert it to a WMV file. This was a nightmare until I found a free program called Prism. So dvd recorder -> ripped to a XVID avi -> to WMV.
Some findings:
- Movie maker is no good because I couldn't figure out how to not rescale the image.
- Windows Media Encoder is a system hog and ran into a a ton of errors trying to read the avi file.
- Searching the net for AVI to WMV converters gives you lots of results for apps. These apps may be "free" but they generally only convert say 5 minutes unless you buy them.
- Capturing good quality video is also a pain, i need to invest in a good tv capture video card I guess. No HD video capture also. How do people capture HD from game consoles I wonder.
