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  1. Member Innershield's Avatar
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    I am capturing in Premiere from my digital8 cam. What I want to do is export exactly what is on the tape to the HDD without any recompression, then use tmpg to encode to svcd. There are only a few codecs to choose from in the "export movie settings" dialog box. Is Microsoft DV AVI what I want? or is that re-encoding. When I choose this it takes a little while to export after I already captured, that is why I think it is re-encoding.
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    I'm not sure how digital8 works, but DV is captured by firewire and not re-encoded. Are you capturing through a capture card (rca or svideo) or a firewire port? Any analog capture would have to be converted into something. Any DV capture should go straight out to file as it is captured, so no export should be needed. Maybe premiere does things differently... but check your settings when you capture and see if there already is a file, maybe you don't need to export.
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  3. Yep, export as MS AVI DV and choose NONE as your compressor. You will preserve your original edited DV in your HDD.
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  4. Sorry, wrong info. If you select MS DV AVI, you can't select the compressor to none unless you select MS AVI. Like Thorn said, your captured video will be in DV AVI format saved in your HDD without having to export it unless you want to export a copy of your edited video to your HDD.
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    I am capturing via firewire. In premiere you must export the file because when you capture, it only makes a temporary file. If you save it just like it is, it will make a project file ie. *.ppj. If I select MS AVI it is using the cinepak codec by radius and recompressing when you export to the HDD. But if I select MS DV AVI, i want to know if that is recompressing also.
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  6. If you capture with IEEE1394, the that you specified is already of DV format. When you capture, you need to select a save directory location, and name the captured file to save to the desired directory. If you go to the directory, you'll find the file that is already in DV format.

    You can also capture using MS Movie Maker that comes with WinME/XP. You won't have the 1.2Gig limitation as imposed in Premiere (for WinXP).

    If you export, my guess is the encoding will take place. But if there is a loss, it is going to be very minimal. That's DV.
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    You cannot save the file as you captured it. If you just click save, it saves what is in the timeline, as a project file, not a dv avi. You have to export in order to get a avi file. I want to know what to set it at when I export to have no recompression.
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