Record HDTV Programs and Make HD Video Clips for YouTube
October 27th, 2009
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Here is a very short guide:
- You need to purchase and install a TV/Video capture card on your computer. I use a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 capture card and am very happy with it. Here is the Amazon link to this card: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 on Amazon.
- You need a DVR software to record TV programs. Do not use the software that comes with the TV capture card. It’s no good. I use SnapStream BeyondTV 4.9. I have tried many DVR softwares and, in my opinion, BeyondTV is the best. The BeyondTV website is: SnapStream BeyondTV.
- After recording the HDTV programs using BeyondTV, you can use your favorite video editing software to do whatever you want to the recorded clips.
- To prepare HD clips for Youtube, you need to resize and encode the clips. I use MeGUI to do this. When encoding the clips, I use H.264 as my video codec. I make sure the resolution of the clips is 1280×720. And I make sure I use a high bitrate for my clips. This might take some time (depending on the length of your video cilps).
- Upload clips to Youtube.
Categories: Tips and Tricks, Video Editing