firewire capture won't work with Virtual Dub?

[spade357]

Newbie here,

Ok. Let me get this straight. After doing some reading for a while (a long while), I found out that you can't capture DV video thru firewire with Virtual Dub. Is this right? If it is, then how come most of the guides don't tell you that? Geez...

One more thing. I heard you need some kind of a driver (VFW) in order for Virtual Dub to work with most firewire DV devices. Since Microsoft doesn't support it anymore then we're out of luck (DV users). Although, they have a newer version (WDM), Virtual Dub does not support it because they said its too complicated to program or something. I guess we (DV users) are out of luck again?

Can anyone help?

Should I just use my Vegas 4.0 to capture?

[stickboy]

Originally posted by spade357
Ok. Let me get this straight. After doing some reading for a while (a long while), I found out that you can't capture DV video thru firewire with Virtual Dub. Is this right? If it is, then how come most of the guides don't tell you that? Geez...Most guides are intended for people who are capturing video from analog sources.

If you have a DV source, then you don't need to capture. You just transfer the video.

There's no point to using VirtualDub to capture video from a DV source, since you'd have to re-encode the video (not recommended, since DV is already a lossy format), and VirtualDub's capture capabilities wouldn't give you much benefit.

Use applications designed for transferring DV video, such as WinDV (http://windv.mourek.cz/), DVIO (http://www.carr-engineering.com/dvio.htm), or Scenalyzer Live (http://www.scenalyzer.com/).

[spade357]

Thanks much Stickboy

That really clarify things for me.

One more question, of all the software that you've mentioned, which one do u recommend the most/best?

Thanks again for your help.

[stickboy]

I use Scenalyzer Live, but it's not free. (At the time I registered it, WinDV wasn't around.)

Otherwise, I'd probably use WinDV.

[jggimi]

For information about DV "capture" and other DV related issues, including software processing, please see the DV forum (http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=59).