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How to Record Yourself on Zumba for the PS3

The Zumba fitness party phenomenon has grown into the world's largest and most successful dance-fitness program. As of 2011, more than 12 million people take weekly Zumba classes in more than 125 countries around the world. Zumba is not confined to fitness clubs. Armchair fitness enthusiasts can play Zumba Fitness for PS3. It is possible to record dance routines by connecting a computer equipped with a video-capture card to the PS3 console. Once it is all hooked up, you can upload clips of your favorite salsa moves online for the whole world to see.

Things You'll Need

Computer
Video capture card
Sound card
HDMI cable
RCA cable

Instructions

- 1
  Purchase a video-capture card for your computer or, if you do not want to add internal hardware to your computer, get an external loop-back system. If you opt for a digital video-capture card over analog, you will need lots of hard drive space and fast enough hard drives to record at a high enough frame-per-second rendering rate. Look to get two fast hard drives, minimum 7200 RPM, set up in a RAID 0 configuration. Install the proper video codec such as DivX, Xvid, H.264 or Mpeg2 on your computer.
- 2
  Connect your RCA cable's out from your PS3 to the input of your sound card. Connect your HDMI cable's out from your PS3 into your video-capture card.
- 3
  Install the video-capture software that came with your video-capture card. Start the software and check that the input devices are properly connected. Start recording on the video-capture software, then start playing Zumba.

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