How can I get VitrualDub to cut DV from my camera?

[SVCDummy]

I just downloaded a few hours of raw DV content from my Canon ZR65mc.
I used both Ulead VideoStudio6 and DVIO to get the .AVI files down to my PC.

When I try to open them with VirtualDub it complains that it has no decoder for "dvsd". Obviously not all .avi files are built alike! And I love to work in Virtual dub because it is so fast for cutting out unwanted stuff (like all the garbage footage you get when the camera is left on between activities). The raw .avi files from both capture programs produce this same undesirable result.

If VirtualDub can't handle DV, then is there something similarly easy to use (and hopefully free) to accomplish what I need. I tried to do the edits in VideoStudio6 but it is very cumbersome and I can't tell what is really happening to my files.

Is there maybe a wrapper or some other magic trick that I can use with V.dub to do this? The other reason for using V.dub is the ability to reencode with a codec that generates smaller files. I just need a way to make it happen.

Thanks

[welthqa]

you need a dv codec. check the codec section of tools, panasonic or canopus. worked for me. as i use vdub or vdubmod for my dv editing.

[BuMpErS]

I use MainConcept DV Codec http://www.mainconcept.com/products.shtml

[HAGGARD]

Yes, BuMpErS is right!!!

Just download the mainconcept DV codec (demo) and install it on your machine. Although it is a demo it is fully functional in decoding DV-AVI, BUT if you want to re-encode (after editing in Vdub) to DV-AVI you get a Mainconcept watermark in the top-left corner of the encoded video...
Also another trick might help...
Install Pinnacle Studio 7 which also has a dvsd codec...

'HAG

[donpedro]

I don't know too much about this, but AVI is very generic file extension. What is realy inside can be different type of data. DV AVI Type 1, DV AVI Type 2, DivX AVI..... and so on... difernece is in codec used to encode data. I beleieve that problem that you are having could be in DV AVI Type 1 or Type 2. If I remember right... it can't handle one or other... Try search on that.