DV video + analog audio

[agent_mulder81]

Hi everyone... is there a program (hopefully freeware) that I can use that will capture video from my DV camcorder (through the firewire cable) and capture the audio from a different source (analog) at the same time??

cuz for some reason whenever I play a certain tape on my camcorder the video comes through fine on the firewire but with no audio... but the audio comes through fine with the analog connections.... so how can I capture these together??? (cuz i've tried capturing them seperately but the audio I guess is slightly slower when i capture it and then it becomes out of sync with the video when I try to multiplex them!)

ANY help would be really appreciated!!

thanks!!!

[Tommyknocker]

Since you probably already have both audio and video, why not resynch the audio so it matches the video when you remux them?
http://www.vcdhelp.com/edit.htm#repair

[The village idiot]

What type of DV are you getting from your camera? Type 1 or type 2. You may need to convert the DV from type 1 to type 2 so that you can hear the audio that is captured with the video. Edit studio from puremotion can do that, just get the demo. It kind of sucks for a lot of other things, but the DV converter works even after the demo expires.

[Thorn]

Ulead has a simple (free) type1 to type2 converter.

DV on the tape should always have the audio interleaved with the video, so if you're 'capturing' DV the sound shouldn't be stripped out. As the village idiot mentioned the type could be the problem -- some programs (like virtualdub) can't read the interleaved audio from type1 so they ignore it.

As for a free capture app, the only one I've seen is the sample (DVapp) that comes with the directx SDK. You have to download the 100MB+ pack just to get a 30k file, though...

Honestly, though, it's not a good capture program (it's a demo program)... but it comes with source code. It would need device control to be really useful but I don't think I'll write code for it any time soon.

[The village idiot]

Free capture app. try DVio. http://www.carr-engineering.com/dvio.htm

[yg1968]

If that doesn't work, try installing the Canopus DV codec:

ftp://ftp.canopuscorp.com/pub/drivers/dvcodec.exe

[chrisc]

Hi Thorn - where can l get the Ulead (free) type 1 to type 2 converter?

I have been looking for it at ulead.com but could not find it!

many thanks in advance - i use Pinnacle studio, which have problem with the different avi type!!!

[jtor]

agent_mulder81,

...when you say 'no audio', are you referring to the 'actual transfer' process? Because I've encountered a firewire card (and used Ulead Videostudio 4) way back, that doesn't have sound 'during' the transfer process...but once the transfer is finished, and when I play the DV AVI file, it has sound.

Now you mentioned 'certain tape' ... do you know the audio setting used (in the camcorder) when the footage was shot on this tape?