about exporting/copying video game replays....

[BilliardBall10]

well i have to ask:

how can i export all my gran turismo 5 (PS3) racing replays into an USB/PC/laptop device?
and is it possible at all?

in general, how can someone who has videogame replays saved on their PS3 hard-drive move them into a USB stick/elsewhere?
(because i tried to copy the gran turismo 5 replays into a USB, but i could not find a solid way for this...

if someone knows a way for this, please help me.
thanks

[SoBe Clock]

The only way you're going to be able to do this, unfortunately, is to buy a capture card for your computer and record the replay to your PC as it plays on the PS3. The reason is that when games record replays in this style, they don't record video data, they record the game data and recreate the match/race/whatever when you go to watch it.

I stream on twitch.tv and such so I have some experience with this stuff. If you really want to record gameplay footage enough to invest in it, I recommend the Elgato Game Capture HD or the new HD60. I use the regular HD and even with stream compression my footage ends up looking pretty good. If this was pre recorded footage rather than streamed it could be perfect 1080 without all that compression, but that's really a limitation of my internet rather than the device.

[BilliardBall10]

The only way you're going to be able to do this, unfortunately, is to buy a capture card for your computer and record the replay to your PC as it plays on the PS3. The reason is that when games record replays in this style, they don't record video data, they record the game data and recreate the match/race/whatever when you go to watch it.

I stream on twitch.tv and such so I have some experience with this stuff. If you really want to record gameplay footage enough to invest in it, I recommend the Elgato Game Capture HD or the new HD60. I use the regular HD and even with stream compression my footage ends up looking pretty good. If this was pre recorded footage rather than streamed it could be perfect 1080 without all that compression, but that's really a limitation of my internet rather than the device.

ok, so my options are:

1. record everything via a PC/PS3 connection/capture thingy

and
2. get the game capture program to do it for me?

i guess there is no way to trasnfer replay files via an other way, like via a program that could convert them into avi/mp4 files?

[SoBe Clock]

ok, so my options are:

1. record everything via a PC/PS3 connection/capture thingy

and
2. get the game capture program to do it for me?

i guess there is no way to trasnfer replay files via an other way, like via a program that could convert them into avi/mp4 files?

Unless the game has a way to directly export video files, then you'll have to rely on third party hardware and software, such as that capture card I linked. The replay files in your game are stored as raw game data, the only thing that can interpret them directly is the game itself.