Best program to capture with dv camera?

[Elak]

Hi
I just baught a dv camera and i have no ide how to capture it?..
i did as it says in the help files here on vcdhelp but the fclip get likes 30 GIG big...thats no fun to but on vcds...ive tried averything..but it dosnt get smaller..and it always ends up in avi i want to have it in mpg so i can put in on a vcd!
please help!

Thanx

/Elak

[Martí]

I think the best option is Scenalizer Live

www.scenalyzer.com

I'ts the best DV capture program I know, and I use only it

[Elak]

ok thanx!
You think you can give some info on how to use it?

Thanx

/Elak

[kitty]

Pinnacle Studio 7 is also a good entry level editor/capture for DV. You can capture low rez/easy on the HD preview files, edit, then only download the scenes you keep to render.

You should make sure, if you are going to do lots of video, you have a big fast hard disk.

[Elak]

hi, thanx!

im gona do about 1 h and 30 min..and the disk im using is 7200 60 gig
is that good enogh?

[rickblackmon]

I downloaded sclive but when I try to capture, I get an error that says disk is full. I have 62gb free!!!!! Any ideas?

[pacoreguenga]

Elak:

Try capturing with mediocampeg r/t. It compresses mpeg1-2 real time right from your dv tape. There's a demo version available.

Also try Ulead DVD Workshop. There's also a 30 day demo version. It's a very powerful VCD / SVCD / DVD authoring program which also incorporates real time mpeg 1-2 capture.

[Elak]

pacoreguenga
i have tried the programs but my files get like 30 gig large when i do like 30 min...? do you know what im doing wrong?

[Elak]

hi me again...
ok now i have tried all the programs that i can find..8 ore something..
and when i encode 2 min the file is 414 MB...and thats the smallest one ive been able to do..wtf is this?? and the qualit isnt that good either...please help me out here!
Thanx

/Elak

[TheInformer]

When you transfer a file from your MiniDV camcorder to your PC via Firewire, you aren't encoding or capturing - you're just transferring the digital video file (DV file).

DV uses 3.6 megs a second/216 megs a minute/~13 gigs an hour for storage. Yes, the files will be large!

I use ScenalyzerLive as my transfer program. Best $33 I've spent.

[Elak]

ok thanx for the information, but how am i suposed to get it a vcd if the file is so larg? compress it afterwords?

Thanx

/Elak

[TheInformer]

Elak:
Once you transfer the DV file from camcorder to hard drive, you can use TMPGEnc to transcode the file to MPEG-1 or whatever other format you want.