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Chienworks wrote on 3/20/2002, 1:40 PM
You will probably want to render to MPEG at a rather high bitrate; try one of the DVD Best templates. You can also try DV AVI for better quality, but unless you have a very fast processor this won't play back full-screen smoothly. Also it's very helpful to add 5 or 10 seconds of black/silence to the beginning and end of your project. Once that's done, set your video display resolution to 800x600, turn on the TV out of the card, launch Media Player or whatever other MPEG player you prefer, load the MPEG file, start playback and pause immediately, set the media player to full-screen, start the VCR recording, and then un-pause the player.

That should do it.
HeeHee wrote on 3/20/2002, 3:44 PM
Also, Make sure you hide any onscreen controls and move the mouse off the screen before you press the record button on your VCR.
deef wrote on 3/20/2002, 5:01 PM
Easy way is to render to .avi format using whatever codec/compression you want and use Video Capture's full screen mode. This can be enabled/disabled on the Preview Preferences tab and utilizes the Preview on Device and Record to Device buttons on the Print to Tape tab.
Chienworks wrote on 3/20/2002, 6:35 PM
Does that work well with the ATI AIW/VIVO cards? I had very bad results doing that with a VIVO, and couldn't get any output at all on an AIW.
deef wrote on 3/20/2002, 8:51 PM
It should function very similarly to Media Players full screen. I've tested with the AIW successfully, after getting the right ATI driver installed (may also need to install the Multimedia Center stuff)
Chienworks wrote on 3/20/2002, 8:56 PM
Ahhh. That could explain it. I removed all the ATI multimedia software because it was a total dog. Everything on my computer ran slow and i couldn't get any other multimedia stuff to run on my computer while that was installed, and the software itself is just about completely non-functional. For example, the DVD player is supposed to use the hardware MPEG decoding acceleration on the video card, but at best it would only play about 3 frames per second in a half-size window and the audio lags behind in fits and spurts. In comparison, PowerDVD plays full screen full speed in software only.