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Best Quality settings for EasyCAP guide

An easy to follow guide on how to get the best quality videos from your EasyCAP.

1. Will this work on a PS3?

It will work on a PS3. Just do everything that is instructed in the video except for the bit at the start where I am using my Xbox 360.
I don’t own a Playstation 3 so you may have to find a way to change your display settings to suit a widescreen television (16:9) by yourself or you could google it. Its usually in “Settings” or something.

2. When I try to record using EasyCAP on my Playstation 3 it comes out black and white and there is no way to change to Pal-50.

Chances are that you’re stuck with a dud EasyCAP, like me. *High fives*. It’s because the Playstation 3 doesn’t have any games that are Pal-50 and your EasyCAP can only record Pal-50. It’s not the settings that I have used in the Ulead Studio, because my EasyCAP doesn’t record Pal-60 either.
Make sure you check steps 13 and 17, because mucking up ‘PAL’ and ‘NTSC’ can screw with your colour.
Some EasyCAPs, like the ones off of eBay, do not support Pal-60. The DC60 does not record PAL60 but the DC60+ does. This guide works with all EasyCAPs. My EasyCAP doesn’t record pal-60 and I’m the one that made this video.
So I take it from your experience and from Google that you cannot change to Pal-50 on a Playstation 3, which is unfortunate. Sony just didn’t put people with bad capture cards that can’t record pal-60 and people with old, crappy televisions on their list of important people. *Shakes fist angrily at Sony*
From what I know, there are no PS3 games that are Pal-50 anyway. The Pal-50option is really only for people with really old, crappy televisions that don’t support Pal-60. So Sony probably thought, “anyone who has enough money to buy our PS3 surely has enough money to buy a reasonable television”.
I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news =(. So the solution is to get a new capture card that records Pal-60 (an EasyCAP DC60+ or another brand).

How do I use the software that you reccomended?

The best format to convert it to would be a WMV file. There should be a WMV and choose Custom Resize. For this you will need to select the size. It can be any size you want as long as its a 16:9 ratio. Pick 720×480 or 1280×720.
I use Sony Vegas to resize my videos now, but that program was what I used to use.

Can you capture video with Sony Vegas?

Yes you can. But I’ve tried it and it had a lot of trouble recognizing the EasyCAP, then when it did the quality wasn’t very good. It’s a lot better and easier to do it using the Ulead studio like I’ve done in this video.

Does Widescreen affect the quality?
Doing it in 16:9 widescreen stretches the pixels I think. The difference in quality between 16:9 widescreen stretched pixels and square 4:3 isn’t noticable to the naked human eye.
So in short, no. Unless you watch the video with a telescope.

My video is green! Help??
Your EasyCAP is probably plugged into a USB1.0 instead of a 2.0.

Do you use ‘TV Out’ or splitters?
I use the ‘TV Out’ on my TV for EasyCAP. I havn’t tested the quality of EasyCAP with splitters compared to TV Out. But I noticed a slight difference in quality with my other lag-free capture card when I plugged my Xbox directly into it instead of TV Out.
The more stuff that the signal has to travel through the more it diminishes. The effects are quite unnoticable, as you can see above =D. Splitters shouldnt effect the quality at all though.

Mine keeps coming up in black and white?
This means you have an older version of the EasyCAP. This older version that you have is incapable of recording PAL60 games. The one you bought was the DC60. The one you need to record PAL60 is the DC60+.

Does EasyCAP work on a MAC?
Yes there is. Well, it claims to anyway, lol. There are two versions of EasyCAP, the DC60 and the DC60+. The DC60+ is the one you want. The DC60+ is slightly more expensive and bit harder to find because its not rubbish. It has a picture of a guy riding a bike instead of the picture of the laptop like the others. Also Ulead software doesn’t work with a Mac. So you’ll have to film with something else.

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