All right, I took the time to digitize another one of my favourite demos, asd’s Dreamchild. Having recently rendered ‘1995’ to video, I was a little more prepared this time around so I could save all the time of looking around for the proper software and fiddling with its settings. That said, I still encountered some slight differences in the process, read on for the story and links.
The first problem was my rendering PC again: It’s only a Pentium IV 2.533GHz machine with an old HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, but as Dreamchild was released in 2003, I thought it should work better than the more recent ‘1995’. It actually does, despite some stuttering during the ‘tunnel’ sequence, everything looks fine. Funnily enough, I had to play the demo in 800×600, as the stuttering would get a lot worse when running the demo in 640×480 (no clue why but it really dropped a lot of frames when run in that mode and even introduced some display corruption).
The other small difference was the, excellent as I might add, soundtrack, which was provided in Ogg/Vorbis format and not compressed in MP3. Knowing that I pass the audio through Audacity once (to sync it up to the separately captured video track), that was no problem though (Audacity handles .ogg files just as well as .mp3 files).
Apart from that, I tweaked the output parameters on my graphics card and the recording settings on the PVR USB2 to add a bit more contrast to the video (if you read my previous entry, you’ll know that I complained about these).
I won’t repeat the system specs here, see the previous entry (linked above) for those. Here’s just the links to the stuff:
Original demo: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=10530
Download link: asd_-_dreamchild.avi.torrent
Youtube link:
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