A DV "capture" that just transfers the DV in it's original format

[dvnoob]

ok, from what I understand:

"transfering" DV from the camcorder to AVI is about 13 gig for 1 hour and is not compressed. I use dvapp and I get those results.

just for sheets and giggles, i used a new program STOIK capture and I got a whopping 75 gig file from the same tape!!

how can that be?

anyone recomend a DV "capture" program that just transfers the DV to avi in its original format?

THANKS ALL

[Baldrick]

windv

maybe stoik copies and reencodes to uncompressed avi...never used it for dv copying....

[gadgetguy]

DV is compressed video and it is compressed by the camcorder. A capsfer program such as WinDV maintains the same compressed format that is on the tape and stores it in an AVI file. STOIK must have decompressed to raw video as it capsferred.

[dvnoob]

i see, lol what advantage would there be to doing that? I will try windv fellas, thanks.

[edDV]

i see, lol what advantage would there be to doing that? I will try windv fellas, thanks.

DV format is generated (sample reduced to 4:1:1 and 5x intraframe compressed) in the camera as stated and consumes about 13.5GB per hour.

When this is decompressed to 4:2:2 the file size expands to about 75-79GB/hr. There is no increase in quality.

[dvnoob]

thank you, very much appriciated!

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