Saving DV to tape

[defaulk9]

Hi,
I'm wondering what methods are available to me if I want to put DV on DV tapes without recompressing that data? I have DV tapes on my hard drive which I want to put on tapes, but I fear if I run it through an editor like windows movie maker or premiere, it will try to render it, and hence re-encode it while recording it back to tape. I want to be sure I'm not doing that.

[trolltuning]

You should be able to send it back to the viideocamera with WinDV and a firewire cable. (I'm not sure this will work if your camera is a Sony)

[Jalavera]

Try freeware:
DVIO: http://www.carr-engineering.com/dvio.htm
WinDV: http://windv.mourek.cz
or commertials:
Scenalyzerlive!: http://www.scenalyzer.com/main.html

These all programs transfer as-is the video through firewire (IEE-1394) without recompressing, sure.

[defaulk9]

thank you both of you.

suppose I have several small clips that I'd like to all save to the tape--any way ensuring continuous timecode? (especially without pre-recording on the tape)

[trolltuning]

This AviSynth plugin may do what you want:
http://mvideo.ddpp.net/eng/dvtimestampex.htm#timeoffset

[defaulk9]

I'm afraid not. That plugin seems to put text on the video itself, drawing information from the datecode stamped into the video.

What I am talking about is the timecode, which is essentially a tape counter stamped into the tape itself. Usually this timecode is written to the tape by the camcorder when it records footage. Since this would be a straight data transfer, I'm not sure about how the timecode would be written to the tape. if there are any gaps in the recording of the tape, timecode tends to reset, making the tape difficult for non-linear editors to work with. I want to avoid this, hence my question.

[trolltuning]

As I read the documentation it allows you to set the time code to the desired number (right after your the timecode from your other clip) then you should be able to edit and remove the display of the timecodes. You may have to check with the author but I think that's what its designed to do.