how do you guys capture gameplay?

I can add that an external solution would be the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle which works on USB 3.0 and unlike the regular internal Intensity Pro, you can capture at full 10bit uncompressed 1080p (although SCIV is natively in 720p and possibly SCV as well). And if you happen to use a Mac then you even have a better option with Intensity Extreme via Thunderbolt which offers even higher data throughput via an external device. Whatever you get, just make sure you also have a computer thats to spec to handle HD and have software (post compression, editing, etc.) to do whatever it is you want to do.
 
Jaxel left something out about using the Black Magic cards. You will have to get some extra hardware to prevent tremendous input lag when you're playing. However this is not the case with the HD-PVR's. You can use it right out of the box without any extra hardware and have no extra input lag added (just what you get from using component cables). You'll also need a beast of a computer in order to use the Black Magic cards. You'll need at least 2 or 3 harddrives synced together in a RAID to process all of the raw data coming through. Otherwise your video will be choppy and dropping so many frames that your video will be unwatchable. In the long run, you'll be spending alot more to use the Black Magic cards than the HD-PVR, but like with anything involving quality, you get what you pay for. The quality on the HD-PVR's are still really good. Just some food for thought.
 
Enkindu... thats almost true... if you use the pass-through on the BMI Pro, it will add a SMALL amount of input lag... not "tremendous". But its still unacceptable. You can get a $50 component distribution amplifier at RadioShack to fix the issue.

You will need a beast of a computer with the BMI Pro, because as I said before... it actually does REAL HD, and real HD requires a lot of bandwidth. However, you don't need 2 hard drives in a raid array anymore. Several years ago, you did; because hard drives were slower and MJPEG sucks. Now, hard drives are much faster, and the MJPEG codec has been greatly improved. You can record to a single hard drive with uncompressed video without issue.

However, I don't record uncompressed anymore... I record in flash h264 compression in order to stream, and any random hard drive can record that without any issue (although, you need a super powerful computer to encode flash video in HD on the fly)... Core i7 was designed specifically for this kind of media encoding. In fact, if you DONT do something like this, you have absolutely ZERO reason to have an i7 and you're wasting your money.
 
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