DV tape > AVI: and back?

[taboo]

Hello People,

I have no problem with transferring DV tape to AVI. But what I was wondering is if its possible to edit and transfer that AVI back to DV tape.

The reason i wanna do that is that DV tape contains a lot of garbage being at same time original source of home made movies.

Why not edit (cut unwanted material on AVI) and transfer it back to DV tape? Will it be possible to do digitally and without any significant loss of quality?

Thank you in advance,
taboo

[rkr1958]

Yes. I've done that very exact thing several times myself. Assuming no dropped frames either way (DV Tape ==> to PC & PC ==> to DV Tape) this transfer is lossless.

[taboo]

Yes. I've done that very exact thing several times myself. Assuming no dropped frames either way (DV Tape ==> to PC & PC ==> to DV Tape) this transfer is lossless.

thanks rkr1958,

Can you give me few hints how did you do that?
Are there any tutorials for that?

TIA
taboo

[edDV]

Yes. I've done that very exact thing several times myself. Assuming no dropped frames either way (DV Tape ==> to PC & PC ==> to DV Tape) this transfer is lossless.

thanks rkr1958,

Can you give me few hints how did you do that?
Are there any tutorials for that?

TIA
taboo

What editing software are you using? By AVI I assume you mean DV-AVI.

Windows Movie Maker will do it but you need to use "send to DV camera" for export. Movie Maker can also save to a DV-AVI but it is burried in the "other" formats.

Most any commercial DV editing program will do this. Whatever you use, keep the video as DV throughout the process.

[rkr1958]

For DV transfer to PC and visa-versa, I use both Pinnacle Studio 7 & Ulead VideoStudio 6 ... both of which I paid less than $30 each off of ebay. Both these programs allow you to transfer DV to your PC, edit the AVI and write out (i.e., transfer) to AVI back to DV tape. While I won't use these programs to encode or make a DVD ... they're fine for transferring (i.e., capture) from DV to PC, editing, and recording (i.e., transferring) back to the DV camera ... without quality loss ... given you don't drop frames.

[taboo]

Windows Movie Maker will do it but you need to use "send to DV camera" for export. Movie Maker can also save to a DV-AVI but it is burried in the "other" formats.

yeah, Windows Movie Maker is exactly what I use.

First, what I am going to do (and usually do that) is to choose a format DV-AVI (25 Mbps) to record on my HD from DV tape.

Second, once I have AVI file, I am going carefully edit it by cutting unwanted scenes out of it in VirtualDub.

Whats next? Can someone give me a hint?
Import it back to Windows Movie Maker ?

Thank you in advance,
taboo

[yg1968]

A number of program can export DV back to a camcorder.

For example, DVapp or DVIO, WinDV are able to do it.

[suppafreak]

Adobe Premiere will do it. If your camera supports IEE1394 and your PC has a firewire port, you can just connect the firewire cable from camera to the PC and capture the video from camera, edit it in Premiere and export to tape when it is done. No quality loss since this all done digitaly.

I auctually have done this many times.

[foton]

camera to PC. --> Edit in WMM2 -->save the video in DV-AVI mode.

After this, use the same WinDV to record back to the camera.

Or will the saved video in DV-AVI mode can be burned to a cd and played in a dvd player?

[Vchat20]

yep. back during the summer when I graduated HS, my mom had rented a DV cam (dont remember which make or model offhand) to tape the graduation ceremonies. due to circumstances, the way I went through the process was I dubbed the video from the camera to the computer via FW using adobe premiere and edited it slightly (faded between tape cut points and added a customized intro frame). then I exported it back to the minidv tape due to limited hard drive space (the raw video from the dv cam took up almost 14gb alone). cleaned up what premiere had loaded on the drive, dubbed back to the hard drive and encoded to burn to cd.

im a big premiere fan myself. really cuaght onto it quick. In my senior year of HS I took the pre-requisite class for the school's tv station and everything there was done digitally with premiere being the editor of choice. I had gotten so good that the teacher told me that if it wasnt for me being in my senior year, he would have signed me up for the station on the spot.