Playing DV tapes on the computer

[tandrb]

Is there any software that will let me play digital video tapes directly from my camera, through the fire wire, to the computer monitor? I want to avoid the step of having to save the DV tape as a huge AVI file, then play the AVI file.

Is there some software out there that does this?

Any help is appreciated.

-Tom

[The village idiot]

Any of the capture apps that has a preview should let you do that. Check the tools section to the left.

[thayne]

Capture app previes are usually poor quality. They are only meant to be "Previews"

You caould get a TV card and connect via the s-video connector and watch full screen.

[tandrb]

Thanks, but I'm looking for a way of taking the direct DV, rather than interlacing it, converting it to analog, then sending it down an S-video cable to a capture card, then de-interlacing it and converting it back to digital to send to my projector. I have a 120" screen and, when you blow things up that big, every bit of quality loss is noticeable.

I agree with Thayne, in that I have not seen any DV software preview screen that is of adequate quality.

There must be some software out there that does this.

-Tom

[BJ_M]

Capture app previes are usually poor quality. They are only meant to be "Previews"

You caould get a TV card and connect via the s-video connector and watch full screen.

not true ... many are full resolution and quality with sound ... like vegas for example or final cut pro or several others ..