TheHiddenPoster said:
A friend is giving a set of lectures over computer. I would like to record
them and give them to him as a surprise. I've been experimenting and my
computer is too slow to capture both video and sounds on the same machine.
So I want to record the video on one, feed the sound to another computer
and record the sound there. What jack do I connect to what jack?
Thanks
Assuming that the lectures are coming in to you via a webcast.
Also assuming that neither PC has a video card with a video INPUT connection
(few low-mid priced video cards offer a video input connection)..
Use the PC that is receiving the webcast to record the video. Connect this
PC's audio line out to the audio line in on the other computer and record
the audio there. Use a stereo audio cable with 3.5mm phone plugs on each
end. Get one from Wal-Mart, Target, Radio Shack, etc.
A question here.. what software are you going to use to record the video
without also recording audio? All the multimedia software that I've seen
will record both at the same time, and create a single AVI file on your
computer that contains both Audio and Video.
BUT!!! here's the rub... assuming that you are able to record the video
and audio separately, how do you get them back together into a single avi
file so that the audio is synchronized with the video??? Unless you have
good multimedia editing software, it isn't as easy as it sounds. You might
try doing it with Windows Movie Maker from Microsoft. You can download it
free from Microsoft's web site.
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