capture card or dvcamcorder?

[BSR]

What software do you use to capture the video pass thru?
Do you have to remove the tape?
Do you have to set anything special up on the camera to use the passthru to the Fwire port?

Anything else you learned during your experiments that may help?

I have used many, but prefer Adobe Premiere 6.5. Ulead VideoStudio 6 worked great also, but only captured in Type1 DV which gives an issue if you ever use Virtualdub to edit. I'm currently testing out Mainconcept, but nothing in depth as of yet. I'm looking at mainconcept for it's DV to Mpeg2 on the fly capture ability to Half D1 for videos that aren't as important to me.

Yes I have to remove the tape or else every program on the computer tries to read the tape instead of the passthrough video.

I have a Sony DCR-PC101, I think the only thing I had to set up was to enable the DV out on the camera and enable Video in for the passthrough.

I have tried WinDV and DVIO for capture, but when I capture long clips >45minutes, the audio goes out of sync for me. Think it's something with the Sony cam, there have been posts about this, just don't remember the specifics.

Good luck
Edited added quote and some other stuff about DVIO and WINDV.

[DVD_Ripper]

Outstanding and Thanks!

I use the MainConcepts MPEG Capture product now and it works rather well for DV --> MPEG captures... I will try and see if it works via this passthru as well.

Tx

[vcdlover]

FYI...

Pass through .AVI vs miniDV .AVI out put.

I've done it quite often and I use my GL2 pass through to transfer from Hi8 and VHS using Pinnacle 8. I notice that there's a large black line on the bottom of the footage. If it is a true miniDV tape, it is fine. I've heard people mention this issue on this board a few times, but I forgot what the resolution was or it never had. If I capture it via Hauppuage (spelling?), I didn't have that problem, but the quality is not as good as the pass through avi and encode it with TMPGENC.

vcdlover