have to do video project. help is needed
ok guys, i have to do a video project for my literature class. group project, so im not alone, but the rest of the group is even more clueless than i am on the matter of video recording/editting. well, not really recording or editting, but what goes in between. i wrote the script, have the props, everything is set up. the problem is, we have a digital camera with its USB cord missing (owner is damn careless) which i think would be the way to transfer the video data to the computer. its not a simple USB cable, but rather one point is USB and the other (which is plugged into the camera) is a rather weird shape. we have the video editting software necessary to compile and polish the project once we have it on the computer, but we still need to record and transfer.
now, again, i know nothing about video, but if i have a video card with S-video out and hook it up to a TV, is there any way to record what is being played on the TV and save it to my hard drive? if so, id really appreciate it if you could tell me the software id need, cabling, and the procedure in general. if this can be done, we could just as well film it on a normal video tape, and then transfer it to the PC for editting. we didnt want to do some cheap video project where we would just record one scene behind the other, plus its essential to the script we use certain effects.
its a spoof kind of thing, as the teacher left it open to our decision what we were going to make, so i wrote a script for one of those dating service videos, where an applicant send in a video with information about themself and other things. in this one, i feature a rich, self centered guy with a bunch of weird friends. the friends do appearances and interviews talking about the subject, so the viewer can get a full perspective on this elligible bachelor. one of them is a puerto rican pimp and drug smuggler, the other is Miami's biggest player, etc. we got a 2003 Porsche Boxster S for a car scene, pimp clothes for the full pimp effect, and even groupies. at all this, i wrote the entire script not knowing how exactly i was going to pll this off, so a little help would be very much appreciated. i know there are some great filmmakers in hiding here on TA, so spill the beans. if you think i have any other better alternatives, by all means, go ahead.
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