DV Viewer

[chaumurky]

Does anyone know of a simple program for controlling (via firewire) and viewing DV camcorder footage in fullscreen (perhaps with bob interlace for temporal integrity)? I use SCLive for captures but if I want to review footage fullscreen I don't know of anything that actually does that. I've got 60 minutes of a thunderstorm and I need the detail to catch the lightning strikes... Thanks in advance. :)

George.

[b00zed]

Give CapTV 2.0 (http://www.micromediaenterprises.com/captv/) a try.

[chaumurky]

@A380, I am short of HDD space and would prefer to capture only the parts I need. I could use the TV out but that's in another room.

@b00zed, does that program work with firewire cards? Looks like it's for analogue capture cards.

[b00zed]

It worked with my firewire card, though it's possibly due to the drivers of the card identifying it as a video source to windows; it was part of an ADS/Panasonic kit that came with my DVCam

[yg1968]

I know two programs that can do this:

1- Amcap (freeware)

http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=video

2- TV Viewer (shareware; 10$ to register)

http://www.geocities.com/matroxfiles/tvviewer.html

See this thread:

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=162705&highlight=amcap

[hanfrunz]

You could also use the normal MediaPlayer together with avisynth and graphedit.

Open graphedit. Open a DV-File into it. Delete the filesource (first part of the filterchain). Select the WDM-capturesource (your camera) connect it to the first part of the filterchain. Now if you press play in graphedit and your camcorder, you should see the picture of your cam.

Next step is to erase the last filters in the chain (audio and video output renderers)
Save the .grf file.

now write a small avisynthscript:

DirectShowSource(yourfile.grf)
# put some deinterlacers here

now open this file in your mediaplayer and resize to fullscreen

Not tested right now, but should work...

[Ronald_79]

Hi all,

the URL of the TV Viewer program has changed to:
http://tvviewer.browseto.org

Regards,

Ronald

[Ghitulescu]

I use WinDV, small, no install, no registry, and effective. And free, of course.
Just make sure you rewind the tape moments before the capture and you're done.
Playing DV movies in fullscreen does not add more resolution ot the image, unless you use good scalers, which are by default not installed.
So make a list of points you want to capture and capture only that sequences. BTW, this was used to be called a "decision list" in the good old analog days.