Transfering DV to Computer

[hhamzeh]

Hi All,

Most of the Digital Camcorders record a movie in 640 * 480 resolution. I read somewhere that when we transfer a movie from a Digital Camcorder to a computer using Fire Wire port and in DV format, we do not really capture or encode the movie, but just transfer the data from comcorder to the computer. I use Ulead Video Studio to do this but when the movies get to the computer the resolution becomes 720 * 480 still in DV format (13 Gig per hour). How does this transforming from 640 * 480 to 720 * 480 happend? Does it stretch the movie a bit? If the process of transfering a movie from a Camcorder to a computer is not pure "transfering" and those softwares do a similar thing as Video Capture Cards do, Does it still stretch the moie? Thank you in advandce for your help.

[pijetro]

Nope, Mini Dv format is 720x480. This is why you see a value of 720x480 in your capture software......

The 640x480 you're talking about must be a mistake. That's probably the size of the digital stills in regards to pixels.