DV Firewire capturing

[Thwiipp]

Hello all i just bought a firewire card so i can capture video form my mini DV cam, i want ed to know if there were some in depth tutorials that people know of. Also whats the best program for capturing, i heard adobe priemere is good, but alos heard something about audio sync problems, also whats the best editing tool, i want to transfer my DV tapes to DVD-R. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[bira]

I don't have a miniDV cam yet, so I don't know if this is the best:

I intend to:

- Capture with Scenalyser
- Edit with Adobe Premiere
- mpeg2 encode with TMPGEnc


bira

[bb]

I prefer Ulead's Media Studio for video capturing and editing. I was disappointed by Adobe Premiere, though (very slow, fuzzy user interface). TMPGEnc is a good choice for encoding, much better than most commercial programs.

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[ulfschack]

Agree with bira on the first two, but for capturing I use the free sonic foundry cap utility that solved my type-1 avi troubles by capturing to type-2 instead. There's also a native one in the xp pro system. Used it a couple of times. It worked, but I didn't like it anyway :)

cheers

[Bodman]

I get V good results by

Capture and Edit with Premier
encode Video with CCE
Tweak/Sort Audio with Virtual dub

Author with Maestro (menus in photoshop 7)



//Bodman :)

[stl]

I agree that MS pro has better capture than premiere especially with the audio. As for a tutorial, you don't need 1 because:

under win98se you need to probably install drivers and the Microsoft 1394 update to get eveything going. If your're using win2k than all you need is SP3.

Once everything is running, with the OS up just plug in your DVcam. Check in device manager to make sure your cam is seen (in sound & game controllers on 98se and in imaging devices in 2k)

then you just open your software's capture utility select the name and location of the file and start recording.

ALSO: if this is the 1st time you plug in your cam then you'll get that "new hardware found screen" and most definately use the AC adapter NOT your battery for capture and set the power switch to play/pc (or your cam's equivalent, mine is a JVC DVM90)

If 1 day you become a spielberg don't forget me!!!

[vidaldan]

I didn't author DVD-Rs but SVCDs, and I can recommend you for the beggining to start with Pinnacle's Studio DV for Capturing / Editing,
and then encoding the resulting AVI with CCE or TMPG (I always worked with TMPG since it's 'free')
The only problem I've got with TMPG was the sound encoding, which produced some 'metallic' sound, but I've solved that using DVD2SVCD for AVI to MPG2 encoding using TMPG as external encoder. I can't tell you how it works encoding with DVD resolution/bitrates since I didn't tried that.
Regarding the Studio DV I can tell you it's very easy to use and powerful enough for the start. I've also tried Premiere and Ulead's Media Studio Pro but they made me crazy and I've got back with Studio DV, at least as long I'm gaining experience with the encoding/burning thing.

Good luck !

[bb]

The "metallic" sound in TMPGEnc can easily be avoided: Install TooLame and SSRC as external tools (Option / Environmental setting, then "External tool" tab).

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