Can someone help me out here please???

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Ok, heres the deal:

If you've never watched Tobuscus or his gaming channel on YouTube, go watch one of his gaming videos first please.

I want to do something similar, like playthroughs and video walkthroughs on YouTube.

My problem???

I don't know what I need to get it to show ONLY whats on my screen,, like what Tobuscus does in his gaming vids.I've googled a ton of stuff, and I know I'll need a capture card, but someone on a Yahoo Answers page also mentioned something about a female splitter? and by the looks of the capture cards I've seen so far, I'll need to open up my consoles to hook these things up??? So I'll need at least 7 or more of them(1 for 360, 1 for PS3, 1 for GCN, 1 for original Xbox, 1 for PS2, 1 for DC, 1 for Wii U and Wii(don't currently have a Wii, traded in for a 3DS when Wii U rumors started spreading, because it was my least played system) on the Wii U)

So where can I find capture cards for those systems??? If there are different ones for different systems, I can wait for a bit, but I NEED one for PS3 and 360 soon.

Please help me out here guys!! !

Thanks in advance!! !

If I was you I would hook up a VHS/DVD player to your tv and the game system to that. Thats what I used to to do what I got locked on a battle to re watch them.

I'll just wait for someone to help me out here with the capture card, cuz don't want it to look like s**t(no offense to anyone who does what you said)

I think by "female splitter" they must've meant an RCA to minijack converter to get the audio into your computer?

Should look something like this (though not always)


You might have to plug it into the line-in on the back of your computer, I don't know if modern-day capture cards have RCA jacks for audio on the back of them, mine's pretty old.

You don't need to open up your consoles at all (unless it doesn't support composite video output, which doesn't apply to any of the consoles you listed).

I don't know if you're hooking up your consoles via component, HDMI, or composite video (or if you even know which is which), so you'll have to figure that part out. All of said consoles support composite video though, so that would probably be the easiest way to go, especially if you've already got the cables for it.

Composite is the yellow/red/white RCA cables, looks like this (ignore the black VGA cable, was the first pic I could find):


Edit: Oh, I see what you were saying now about opening up your consoles. The capture card goes inside of your PC, not inside of the consoles. The consoles plug into the capture card just like you'd plug them into your TV.