New to DV Capture

[neile]

Hi. I have an NTSC panasonic vidcamera with firewire. I'm trying to capture the video using device control in Adobe Premiere 6, but when I capture the video, it's very skippy, it's like it's only playing 1 frame per second! I've checked that all options are set to NTSC etc, but as I'm new, I spose I've probably missed something out... any ideas please?!

is there an easier way to capture DV?

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[humdinger]

try scenalyser http://www.scenalyser.com

[neile]

that's brilliant - worked first time, thank you!

one question however, although in the options, I've selected capture at full resolution (720px), when I play it in media player, it only opens a window the size of a normal 1/2 res video. Any ideas?

[setht]

Ok, I'm not in front of my Windoze PC at the moment, so bear with me if I get things a bit off.

From within Media Player, select PROPERTIES from the FILE menu.
Click on the third tab (name escapes me). Highlight DV Decoder and click on Settings. Select FULL RES versus HALF RES, check the box marked "make default" and click apply.

Now, you'll have to quit out of Media Player and restart it for the change to take effect.

Now, there are two caveats to doing this:
1. You need DirectX 8.0a and the DV capture update from Micro$oft.
2. You'll suddenly see all your interlaced frames, which you might not like. It's difficult to get around the idea that, although it looks like dreck in Media Player, once produced back to tape or some other medium the interlace'll go away.


As to your problem with Premiere 6, again, I'm not at my editing PC, so my memory might be off. Go to the PROJECT pull-down menu and select Video Preferences. Then click on DV Playback settings and DEselect "Playback to DV camcorder". When you're playing back to the 'corder, the desktop takes 2nd chair and videos can have problems.

Hope this helps!

Seth


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On 2001-11-16 10:01:00, neile wrote:
that's brilliant - worked first time, thank you!

one question however, although in the options, I've selected capture at full resolution (720px), when I play it in media player, it only opens a window the size of a normal 1/2 res video. Any ideas?
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[Drennen]

I just tried to do this, and figured I would post the instructions for how to do that with Windows XP.

In Media Player, go to Tools, Options
Performance Tab
Advanced Button
Check 'Enable Full Screen Mode'

Then you can have the full res (albiet with interlace nastiness) through media player.

For viewing on the computer, I take my DV capture and run it through Premiere to de-interlace it. Frame server that to TMPEG and save it out as a high bandwidth MPG file. Definiely looks better than the full-screen interlaced DV stream (but only on the PC).

Drennen

[humdinger]

alternatively, u can use a combination of the mainconcept dv codec http://www.mainconcept.com and capturing in 'type 2' format to get playback at full screen. type 2 also increases compatabiity with progs such as virtualdub, which will not read audio streams in type1 dv