Xbox 360 Video Capture

Game Platform: Xbox 360
Capture Card: Pinnacle MovieBoard Plus
Capture Software: Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus

My setup is connected as such:
Xbox 360 (RCA Component) --> Pinnacle Movieboard --> PC Computer (Via Pinnacle Movieboard PCI Card).
The Xbox 360 video output displays in a preview screen in the capture/editing program. Merely make a film clip of your Halo 3 video and go to Studio and you will see Halo 3/Xbox in that preview screen and just navigate to your video. All you have to do is start your film clip and click start capture.

In my search to buy a capture card and capture video from my Xbox 360, I found almost no affirmative results of capture cards and devices that worked or worked in a simple manner. I read of people running it through splitters, camcorders, VCR's, TV's, etc. This is my solution to this problem using the Pinnacle Movieboard Plus and its video editing software.

One thing that you may not realize is that not only do you need to be able to capture the video, but you also need to edit and convert it. This is why you also need some sort of video editing software. The Pinnacle Movieboard comes with it's Studio 11 software which allows for decent editing (plenty of tools to make a montage and such) and output formats in AVI, Mpeg, etc

Note: Movieboard does not support HDMI or HD Component cables, it only takes RCA, S-Video, DV, USB, and Firewire. Also , Movieboard installs via a PCI slot.

So what you need to do is get the Moveboard, its about $130.00, not bad when you consider you get editing software and a kick ass capture device. Install it according to how the instructions tell you.

Now, once you are done, make sure that when the Windows: Found New Device window pops and up and asks to try and install it that you go along with EVERYTHING. This will pretty much let Windows go through exactly what you did when you installed the software, but for some reason, the PC may not read the Xbox 360 if the software/hardware is not installed by Windows.

So hook up your component (RCA) connection to the Xbox 360 (Movieboard does not support HDMI or HD Component cables, it only takes RCA, S-Video, DV, USB, and Firewire). Now plug the RCA cables into the little black box that comes with Movieboard and make sure its plugged into the Capture Card installed in your PC.

Finally, start up the Pinnacle Studio software and go to capture. Now click on Setup and go to Capture Settings. From here set Video and Audio to Pinnacle 700-PCI. Everything should now be set to capture and all you need to do is save your Halo 3 film clips and then start the movie in your preview screen and click capture!!

Go through the tabs and select the clips in order and put them in your project then go to the make movie tab and select your output format and make the movie. You now have your first captured video from Halo 3.