Signet of Capture

I managed to get my TV capture card installed and working last night. I recorded a few minutes of Assassins Creed but didn't keep the video since it won't do me any good yet. What I don't understand is how I'm supposed to capture sound. The card's manual wasn't very good (the whole thing was only £14.99 from Amazon so I'm not sure if I should really be complaining), the diagram of the capture card's sockets didn't match up to the card's actual layout so half of setting it up with the TV was guess work. Sound is currently non-existent as there aren't two sockets for the left and right channel composite cables, there's just one socket into which the composite video jack plugs into. So I don't know how to record sound which is very annoying. I tried messing around with the sockets on my sound card and on the capture card itself but nothing has seemed to work. If I could find a way of converting the two composite sound jacks into one standard 3.5mm audio jack then everything would be fine, but I don't think such a feat is possible.

Part of the reason I didn't keep the Assassin's Creed footage is because even though when I do use it I won't be recording any sound, there are audio cues that help you play the game and without them certain tasks become more difficult. Also it's just no way near as fun. So the footage I did record was mainly me falling off buildings, jumping into the sea, or getting my back-side handed to me by regular city guards and soldiers. Playing on my monitor reminded me how rubbish a bog-standard second-hand thirty-quid TV's resolution really is. No wonder everyone wants to upgrade to high definition.

The other thing that was captured last night was my evening. When I looked up after setting everything up and recording a few minutes of test footage I realised that it was already nine o' clock. Where the hell did the evening go? Who has been stealing my time?

So I didn't manage to start planning adventure 5 or sketch rough copies of my next project or... anything like that. I think that if I want to try recording stuff again I'm just going to lug the 360 (or whatever) upstairs to my PC rather than the other way around.