what format to capture in???

[yadda]

What would be the most universal format to capture content from a MiniDV camera?? The information will eventually be put on DVD.

Refer to attached Mainconcept settings.

What DV file format and what compression???

Thanks
Y

[lordsmurf]

DV is DV. You have no choices.

DVD is MPEG. You'll encode to this at some point in time.

I see no attachment.

[yadda]

Ahhhh sorry

[yadda]

Well it wont upload for some reason:

I will type it the best I can

[thecoalman]

Well it wont upload for some reason:

I will type it the best I can

No need too, as Ls pointed out it doesn't matter. You don't actually capture from a digital cam but transfer the footage to you computer. It's jus as if your copying it from one folder to another.

[daamon]

@ lordsmurf and thecoalman - I wonder if yadda is thinking of DV Types 1 and 2? The video is the same, the difference is in how the audio is stored.

If you find you end up with the wrong one, you can always use the DV Type 1 to DV Type 2 Converter...

[SoupStain]

You don't actually capture from a digital cam but transfer the footage to you computer. It's jus as if your copying it from one folder to another.

Actually. this is not quite true. This has been repeated lots of times in other threads, too.

It's a bit misleading to say that it's just like a file transfer because that implies some sort of flow control mechanism, or at least some guarantee that no data will be lost in the process.

The camera just sends the digital data out at a fixed rate and if the computer misses a chunk then it does not ask for a repeat of that chunk. To my mind it's more akin to a capture process.

[lordsmurf]

A capture is the creation of new content.

DV transfer is more akin to data recovery, taking what it can get, while it can get it.

[thecoalman]

The camera just sends the digital data out at a fixed rate and if the computer misses a chunk then it does not ask for a repeat of that chunk. To my mind it's more akin to a capture process.

Ok then it's like copying data with the possibility of losing some of it.... Any recent system is more than capapble of keeping up with the data rate so that is really not an issue.

[yadda]

I understand all the technicalities.

OK let me back up. I am using the capture built into Mainconcept MPEG encoder but tmpgenc does not recognize the resulting AVI file or it crashes. I have tried to cpature using DV Type 1 and DV type 2 with no luck. The resulting AVI file palys fine in Media player but TMPGEnc chokes. Of course I can pull it up fine in Mainconcept and convert but it has that logo in the upper left. Arggg.

Should I use a more reliable capture utility??? Like AVI_IO???

What utility gives the most consistent results???

My goal is to get this video captured and and then edit out parts then burn it to DVD.

Thanks

Y

[lordsmurf]

Buy MC. Buy any number of encoders. CCE Basic, Procoder Express, etc. All about $50 or so.

TMPGENC is well known for DV issues, especially Type 1 incompatibilities.

[thecoalman]

The resulting AVI file palys fine in Media player but TMPGEnc chokes.

I'm pretty sure TMPGEnc requires DV type2. As daamon pointed out the difference is in how the audio is stored.

Here's a article. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/dvavi.mspx

[daamon]

I'm pretty sure TMPGEnc requires DV type2.

I second that - When I was first getting to grips with DV AVI and TMPGEnc I discovered this. Luckily I was "capturing" (transferring") to DV Type 2 so it wasn't an issue.

But it was something I looked into at the time... I meant to mention it in my original post but forogt .

[vhelp]

Evening guys.

Just for info here ...

TMPGenc *will* read and encode Type 1 files. But, it won't read in the
audio from it. That's the reason why you TMPG is crashing out (or whatever)
.
If you want to *still* use Type 1 dv files, (for testing purposes or whatever)
I suggest that you *take out* the audio part. That is, back-space over the
text filename in the field. Then, TMPG will encode (without audio)
I do this lots of times. However, w/ TMPG, and Type 1 dv files, it's a hit or miss
when TMPG will actually *crash* ..I have experienced this lots of times when
I'm using the [x] Source Range or other settings. That why I just type the
filename *manually* and then encode.

But, you are best to use Type 2 dv file instead. TMPG has no trouble with these such files

-vhelp