dv best capture format?

[devdev]

hi

im gonna capture dv via my premiere6/firewire from my dv camcorder. what's the best quality file format for it to go it? presumably avi but are there different types of avi that i should know about? ive seen somewhere avi but also dvavi. is there a difference? furhermore, in my nero capture screen it even taks about type 1 and 2???

i probably should not be but im confused - any simple pointers!?

cheers

philip

[jagabo]

AVI is a container. Simply a "box" that can contain video and audio compressed (or not) with any number of codecs. DV is one of those codecs. When your DV camcorder sends the video to the computer it sends the digital DV encoded stream that's on the tape. The computer simply puts it in an AVI box. The AVI file contains an exact copy of what's on the DV tape, with a little extra information added to keep it organized.

[guns1inger]

Firewire from your DV camera is effectively a file trasnfer. The data is transfered as is from the camera and wrapped in an avi container. There is no quality loss in this process because it is just transfering data, not encoding.

Out of preference I would use Premiere if stable enough, or even better, the free transfer program WinDV. I would not trust my video to Nero's keeping, but this just me.