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Originally Posted by Mike AA
Did the video look like this on the main screen or just these videos? It would seem more likely that the problem was with your computer. I have recorded to DVD from 6 regionals and championship with no problem atall.
What capture card are you using to capture video?
-Mike
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Mike,
The video you see on the large projector isn't anywhere near what we get on our rinky-dink composite video feed for recording. If they're running composite video to those projectors, I'll eat my team shirt and then turn around and insist FIRST hire competent AV people. They're hopefully at least running component up there, if not RGBHV or SDI, which would come off a separate output and run through a completely different amp and splitter. So the big screen being nice and un-trippy has little bearing on my problems. That said, the big screen still had its own annoying, non-catastrophic problems.
I've also been doing this with this same set up for a few years now without this problem, so I'm confident my setup works when provided with anything approaching a reasonable composite video signal. I've worked in the AV industry a bit, and I do know just a little about these things. I'll admit that there's a small chance I could have prevented this by turning down the saturation gain on my video-in card from the default, works-with-everything-sane value to something much much lower, but I was frankly expecting the AV crew to give me a good signal as opposed to a ridiculously hot one like this. And I'm not even certain that said gain affects anything more than a digital filter slapped on the stream after the A/D conversion has happened. In hindsight, I obviously needed to have my setup running on Thursday so I could check the quality during the day to make sure our terribly expensive AV people had properly set up their equipment. So I'll be doing that from now on, as well as pushing with the RD to get my setup integrated slightly better with the AV gear so I can get something higher quality than a standard def, interlaced composite video signal. Since just about anything would be better, including writing off the whole AV setup and recording off a stationary HD camera, I'm pretty confident next year will work out better, at least.