The quest for perfect capturing and my conquest.

[yg1968]

The compression is 5:1. The compression is made by your digital camera. I don't think that you can use the DV driver for anything else but a digital camera. Your miniDV tape movie gets exported to your computer through a firewire cable. There should be no loss of quality upon this procedure. A good free program for importing and exporting is DVIO. I have the Sony TRV25 (with analog pass through). I am happy with it so far. But I haven't had it for a long time.

[yg1968]

I forget but I think that it's about 10 gig an hour for a (DV) avi file.

[TheInformer]

yg1968:

FYI, DV format is fixed at:

3.6 megs per second
216 megs per minute
~13 gigs (1296 megs) per hour

[Art]

Hi guys. I read this post and have couple of questions about capturing from miniDV camera (JVC DVL 300) Probably you can give me an advice. The problem is that I am getting green and red mosaic in every two minutes or so when capturing with Premiere6.1. And these bad frames are 1 or 2 every time.Iam using MS Avi format for capture. My computer is Pentium 3 550 MHZ HD is 60 Gig 7200 rpm. I couldn't figure out what fire wire card I am using although in hardware manager it says Texas Instruments I guess, Ya and the operating system is win 2000 server. Any suggestions please!!!

[Scobo]

My system has recently developed this problem too. On reading my camcorders manual (Canon MV500i) it sounded like dirt on the tape heads but I also get this with the AV to DV pass-through mode so that can't be the problem. I've tried different capture software and a different DV codec with no luck. I have transferred several hours worth of DV AVI to my PC in the past without this problem. It only started a few days ago.

[thxkid]

I use to do all this same stuff, Got smart and quit dumping money in a computer, bought a Panasonic DMR E-20 Home DVD recorder for $699, problems solved, anything I record from looks just like the source in the 2hr. mode(5000 bitrate) and the 1hr(9000 bitrate) is breathtaking, this includes Hi8mm, 8mm, VHS, SVHS or any of the other digital sources out there I care ti copy or backup from and its a DVD-R and DVD-Ram recorder. I pay $3 for top brand of DVD-R's and $6 for Rams. Never record another VCD or SVCD again, why should I go backwards in quality.
FYI - In case you are wondering yes a 2 hr copy I made on the recorder copies of great again as another 2 hr copy, maybe a 10% drop in quality the 2nd time around. All this while viewing an a 46 big screen and 36in tv.

[Anonymous65]

DV copmpression: 5:1 data compression, 25Mb/sec bit rate, 14 gig per hour.

[ekm]

I use to do all this same stuff, Got smart and quit dumping money in a computer, bought a Panasonic DMR E-20 Home DVD recorder for $699, problems solved, anything I record from looks just like the source in the 2hr. mode(5000 bitrate) and the 1hr(9000 bitrate) is breathtaking, this includes Hi8mm, 8mm, VHS, SVHS or any of the other digital sources out there I care ti copy or backup from and its a DVD-R and DVD-Ram recorder. I pay $3 for top brand of DVD-R's and $6 for Rams. Never record another VCD or SVCD again, why should I go backwards in quality.
FYI - In case you are wondering yes a 2 hr copy I made on the recorder copies of great again as another 2 hr copy, maybe a 10% drop in quality the 2nd time around. All this while viewing an a 46 big screen and 36in tv.

Quick question: I have been thinking about getting one of these. I read somewhere that it also has some type of extra long recording mode that records in vcd quality over like 12 hours on one DVD. Is this true? That would be cool because then you could cap like 1/2 a season of one hour episodes on on DVD...

[Art]

What you say is great but I was wondering what you do if you like to do some editing, like taking some frames out or adding transitions....?

[pedrospeed]

i have a dv sony cam and a firewire card and the movies suck,its full of pixels!!why???
what am i doing wrong??

[fand]

Thanks. Got the new system ordered yesterday from mwave.com:

XP1700
Gigabyte 266a board, ata 133 NOT raid
512 DDR
2 Maxtor 40gb, 7200 rpm, ata133
MSI MX400, 64mb card, TV out

I'm going to run this system with Windows 2000, NTFS and Premiere. Can't wait for DVD burners to drop a little more and stuff one of those in the new tower as well!!

I have almost this exact system (K7S5A motherboard, 80gig 7200 rpm hd's instead).

At 352x240 I drop 0 (and up to 5-50 frames if I'm doing other things besides just recording/capturing) each hour of recording, consistently.

This is with a generic $20 tv capture card.

However, when I decided to switch to DVD format, 720x480, although I did not drop but maybe < 1% frames, the quality degraded enormously.

My WinTV PVR should be arriving today or tomorrow (hardware mpeg2 encoding), and I will let you know how well it performs.

Anyone with WinTV PVR ( http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr_datasheet.htm ) capture card, would you tell me your findings as well?

cheers,

kyle

[Scobo]

Finally solved my mosaic block problem.
After hours of tweaking my system from the BIOS to juggling my PCI cards around, it turns out my firewire cable was faulty !
I was about to try a new firewire card but borrowed a cable to try first and this fixed the problem. The old one must have been sending the firewire card a poor signal.