Hmm, it seems like our comments all crossed paths. Here's my current setup (or what it will be completely by next week):
- Windows 7 64-bit system (newer HP TouchSmart with 4GB and unfortunately, onboard video)
- Adobe Premiere Elements 7 (I'd love to get the full Adobe Premiere, Chris, but this is just for fun and even the academic version is $330. My experience is that all the consumer video editing programs (read: the cheap ones, ~$100 or less) are about the same when it comes to pluses and minuses)
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 for image editing
- Samson C01UCW USB Condenser mike plus windscreen for voiceover stuff
- Audacity (for recording the voice overs)
- Canon HG10 (40GB) for live footage
- Canon DM-50 on-camera shotgun microphone for live footage audio
- Various free public domain footage and audio sites for extra content (like backdrops and music), as well as YouTube (via vDownloader)
- Pinnacle Green Screen sheet for Chromakey (hope to get a bigger, 10x20 one at some point)
- Scaffolding for green screen sheets
- Two studio umbrella lights, two work lights, plus other lights
- Camtasia Studio 6 with SnagIt for live computer captures (typically on my MAME arcade machine)
- Archos 7 (6700) 160GB with DVR Station for capturing output from most older computers and all videogame consoles (sometimes using an old VCR as a go between)
- Rarely either an Adaptec GameBridge or other USB capture device (on an old Windows XP system) if there's a frequency or resolution or something that the Archos 7 doesn't like
So that's actually a decent investment over time (I *think* that's pretty much all of it) for what is considered a fun thing on the side.
We'll see how the audio situation goes in Episode 4. The feedback, comments and ideas both here and elsewhere, like e-mail, have been quite helpful. If Episode 4 is the "Just Dance" episode, then that one will be fairly short and straightforward, so not all of the ideas may be implemented for that. It's quite possible though that I'll begin looking at obscure systems and their software starting with the next episode, since I need my whole family to make "Just Dance" work and my wife is away on business until Saturday night.
*************************** Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
*************************** Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Hmm, it seems like our comments all crossed paths. Here's my current setup (or what it will be completely by next week):
- Windows 7 64-bit system (newer HP TouchSmart with 4GB and unfortunately, onboard video)
- Adobe Premiere Elements 7 (I'd love to get the full Adobe Premiere, Chris, but this is just for fun and even the academic version is $330. My experience is that all the consumer video editing programs (read: the cheap ones, ~$100 or less) are about the same when it comes to pluses and minuses)
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 for image editing
- Samson C01UCW USB Condenser mike plus windscreen for voiceover stuff
- Audacity (for recording the voice overs)
- Canon HG10 (40GB) for live footage
- Canon DM-50 on-camera shotgun microphone for live footage audio
- Various free public domain footage and audio sites for extra content (like backdrops and music), as well as YouTube (via vDownloader)
- Pinnacle Green Screen sheet for Chromakey (hope to get a bigger, 10x20 one at some point)
- Scaffolding for green screen sheets
- Two studio umbrella lights, two work lights, plus other lights
- Camtasia Studio 6 with SnagIt for live computer captures (typically on my MAME arcade machine)
- Archos 7 (6700) 160GB with DVR Station for capturing output from most older computers and all videogame consoles (sometimes using an old VCR as a go between)
- Rarely either an Adaptec GameBridge or other USB capture device (on an old Windows XP system) if there's a frequency or resolution or something that the Archos 7 doesn't like
So that's actually a decent investment over time (I *think* that's pretty much all of it) for what is considered a fun thing on the side.
We'll see how the audio situation goes in Episode 4. The feedback, comments and ideas both here and elsewhere, like e-mail, have been quite helpful. If Episode 4 is the "Just Dance" episode, then that one will be fairly short and straightforward, so not all of the ideas may be implemented for that. It's quite possible though that I'll begin looking at obscure systems and their software starting with the next episode, since I need my whole family to make "Just Dance" work and my wife is away on business until Saturday night.
***************************
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
***************************
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.