DV Cam Capture

[Etouffee]

Hope this is not to silly a question.

I have a DV camera and want to move files to my computer. Can it be done any faster then real time playback? If so what do I need?

[vhelp]

morning etouffee,

>> I have a DV camera and want to move files to my computer. Can it
>> be done any faster then real time playback? If so what do I need?
NO. can't be done, at least w/ my Canon ZR-10.

However, in Pinnacle's Studio app, it allow you to capture a whole tape
in approx 3 minutes. - - How's that you ask, it does so in FAST-FORWARD.
When you press FF, as you are watching the video in the windows, with
all it's blocks and streaks, you note it is capturing this. But, the quality
is very bad. Studio is using this techique to slim down the whole processing
of transfering the whole video in real-time; using specials effects, etc. and
when you are ready to actually write the new DV avi file, it rewinds and
re-transfers the video from your miniDV tape back to your harddrive
again from the point(s) of the video your are encoding in Studio.
Bare in mind, the quality IS NOT GOOD. You should know this, as I'm
sure you've FF from time to time to see or get to different points in your
miniDV tapes, as your viewing, you see the video's quality. So, YOU KNOW
the quality ain't no good!
You might be asking, "how's it knowing exactly where in the video, from
one point to another does it keep such good accuracy?" Well, remember
the time code at the top. The little digital counter. It's basically using
that digital as a guide to the exact spot in your video.

well, I hope I've cleared up your "silly a question", he, he...
-vhelp


-vhelp

[ironwood321]

Normally in editing you only copy what you need to you PC edit it and dump it back out to tape. You really have no need to capture all your footage an work with it. Unless you doing a straight DV to other format conversion without editing?

[EricB]

So other than Vhelp's notable exception, the answer is no. Nothing I have seen supports full format DV transfer from a camera at faster than realtime.