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Gaffer Tape
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Jabba the Hutt Strategy
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Date created
24-Apr-2009, 10:57 PM

Well, I'm certainly glad to hear that!  That being the case, I might as well ask some technical questions that have been bugging me/will bug me in the future in regards to plans I have.  Hopefully someone might be able to help me out.  Since I'm lacking the more sophisticated equipment I had back at school and now have to forage for myself, there are a few things I need to figure out:

1.  Why the hell is it taking me so long to transfer DVDs?  Like I hinted at in my video, I would have used my own clips from ROTJ rather than borrowing from someone's screencap website, but I just had the hardest time getting that to work.  I had to get a new computer a few months ago, but before my old computer broke, I tested these kinds of things out, and I was able to transfer and edit material from a non copy-protected DVD within minutes.  But I tried that for this video, and it was transferring the footage so slowly, it might have taken days to get finished, which is why I gave up and just searched the internet for pictures!  I was hoping for full video, but I could settle for still images like this one.  That's another problem.  My old computer's DVD playback software had the simple ability to make screencaps, but the ones on my new computer seem to lack that.

2.  How do you source footage from YouTube or other online videos?  I have seen videos all the time, like homage videos, for example, where people take clips from other people's videos to use in their own.  How do you do that?

3.  What kind of connection do I need to capture video footage from my television to my computer?  Say, for example, if I wanted to capture video game-playing footage?  The cameras I used at school could be hooked into a monitor to record footage from it, but the camera I'm using at home only seems capable of output to a television but can't receive input as far as I can tell.