Pioneer DVR 720H no sound Capture via DV iLink

[Cornucopia]

I cannot understand why nobody has asked this yet, but WHY THE HECK ARE CAPPING IN THIS MANNER?!!
You should be ripping (and then coverting if necessary) if you want to maintain the best available quality. Probably would take less time, too.

Scott

[DB83]

I cannot understand why nobody has asked this yet, but WHY THE HECK ARE CAPPING IN THIS MANNER?!!
You should be ripping (and then coverting if necessary) if you want to maintain the best available quality. Probably would take less time, too.

Scott

The OP was aware of that in post #4 but I think this is a challenge to get the cap directly into avid. Cut out the middle-man so-to-speak.

[Cornucopia]

Sounds like taking 3 right turns to avoid a left turn, IMO.

Scott

[corrie90]

Clearly from a logical point of view D883’s suggestion from the outset, was the most constructive way forward – I posed myself a question that I thought would be a good project to solve.

I am not the first to try this method nor will I be the last – in the complicated tapestry of life we all try things that seem illogical at the time, further more who’s to judge that taking 3 right turns is not better that taking a left turn ( it all depends what you discover when you make the left turn )

If nothing else I got a better insight into the way my capturing device works – and in the process the DVR has been eliminated from the equation – so all in all I am very content

Thanks for all the contributions.

[DB83]

Just to clarify, my suggestion was to use WinDV since you wished to go, as your topic implied, down the DV route.

What Scott is saying, and as you mentioned in post #4, it is not an efficient method of capturing from a dvd source. You rip/copy your vobs from your dvds. You then convert them to a mpeg - use vob2mpg - and then convert to a lossless format such as lagarith. You can then import that into avid. As Scott points out, this method could even be quicker especially with longer video which have to be captured in DV in real time.

As I mentioned earlier, DV is not lossless. When you edit that and export you will lose some quality. Edit with a lossless codec and all quality remains at the edit/export stage.