Improving Video quality in Adobe and OBS recording help!

[MidwayCJ]

I got my 3DS capture card recently (yaaay) but it captures pretty small obviously. When I try to improve the size in Adobe, I lose quality when I try to make it bigger and have no idea how to capture it in a higher res or make it look better when I try to stretch it. 

I know of other people who have cards from 3dscapture who get much better looking footage than me. I've tried Fraps, and I've used the built in recorder but no dice. 

I also tried to use OBS as I was lead to believe I would have been able to record both my 3ds screen as once when they were separate windows (or at least easily switch between without interrupting recording, correct me if I'm wrong)... But I get a black screen.

I did everything listed -everywhere- to try to fix it. Went into my Nvidia control panel and switched everything to Global, updated all my drivers. It won't record anything. I know it has 3DS plugins but i don't know how to add them and even then it won't record anything, all I get is a black screen. OBS forums didn't help and my topic was ignored because it's a common problem, even though none of the solutions worked. 

My computer is an Alienware m17x and it should run it just fine. 

Does anyone have any solutions to either problem? 

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

I don't have a direct solution as I have never used a 3DS with a capture card. However, I have streamed from OBs with a Hauppauge capture card, which is not recognized by OBS. I did that by screen capture. I ran the default Hauppage capture program and then used screen capture in OBS to capture the program itself. This might seem like a bizarre run-around, but it's a temporary fix and gave me better video quality. Since your 3DS comes with a default recorder (I assume), open that program and leave the program idle, so that it will still play the video feed from the 3DS, just not record it. Then, use the screen or window capture to record what is going on in that screen. It's better than nothing if you can't get the plugin to work.

If you don't know how to crop the video you want inside OBS, I'll help with that also.

[MidwayCJ]

I don't have a direct solution as I have never used a 3DS with a capture card.  However, I have streamed from OBs with a Hauppauge capture card, which is not recognized by OBS.  I did that by screen capture.  I ran the default Hauppage capture program and then used screen capture in OBS to capture the program itself.  This might seem like a bizarre run-around, but it's a temporary fix and gave me better video quality.  Since your 3DS comes with a default recorder (I assume), open that program and leave the program idle, so that it will still play the video feed from the 3DS, just not record it.  Then, use the screen or window capture to record what is going on in that screen.  It's better than nothing if you can't get the plugin to work.

If you don't know how to crop the video you want inside OBS, I'll help with that also.

I figured out the quality thing thanks to someone on 3dsCapture forums.. But I don't think my OBS problem is with the capture software.

OBS will only do the Black Screen thing when I try to capture anything. I did all the fixes and it still won't do anything but a black capture for every setting. 

It's not too bad now that I learned I can do most of what I need in VDub and keep quality, but I've heard good things about OBS and it would make my life easier...