Thread: Techie help for 9 year old

Hi
please, pretty please can anyone help?

my 9 year old boy is really into Machinamo, basically it's machine animated movies, made using games like Halo3 to generate the footage, then you add a soundtrack etc.

My son is so excited about this. He has worked out storylines what music he will use etc.(no metallica to much hassle with copyright! his very words)

It's so flustrating as most of the tutorials are for US formats. I have no real clue and it seems no one at eles has either (a trip to various computer, game stores a total waste of time:wallbash

What he needs is a video capture card that goes into an Xbox 3 (one that works in uk) also he has been useing a video camera bought in the US it records but we can't get it to play back on the PC, the video editing thing comes up but there is nothing to open or save whats on the camera?

As you may have guessed I'm not very technically inclined but I do at least RTFM any help would be greatly appricated.

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Originally Posted by flying_lotous@yahoo.co.uk

Hi
please, pretty please can anyone help?

my 9 year old boy is really into Machinamo, basically it's machine animated movies, made using games like Halo3 to generate the footage, then you add a soundtrack etc.

My son is so excited about this. He has worked out storylines what music he will use etc.(no metallica to much hassle with copyright! his very words)

It's so flustrating as most of the tutorials are for US formats. I have no real clue and it seems no one at eles has either (a trip to various computer, game stores a total waste of time:wallbash

What he needs is a video capture card that goes into an Xbox 3 (one that works in uk) also he has been useing a video camera bought in the US it records but we can't get it to play back on the PC, the video editing thing comes up but there is nothing to open or save whats on the camera?

As you may have guessed I'm not very technically inclined but I do at least RTFM any help would be greatly appricated.

the us camera will prob be recoreding in ntsc with runs at a different frame rate than in the uk, see if you can set the editing sowfware to ntsc,
(what ediiting softwere you using?

Hi
thank you for your reply,
we have a copy of sony vegas which seems to work fine ie, it opens but it will not import from the video camera it just comes up open file. like I said i'm not that technically minded. Don't realy know if I need to use another programme to download and save the video file then open that useing Sony vegas????