DV Noob needs help!

[fabrice1979]

Hi,

I just bought me a CANON MV500 DigiCamcorder. Now I want to know, if there's an easy way to capture a whole cassette?!?!
I have ULead Video Studio 5.0 (with a Dazzle Card, 1394 LAN (?) ).
As I read I have to push record in this program and then I have to play the film on my camera.
Is there a way to "copy" the film from DV-cassette to hard-disk without this method?? Coz u will loose one or 2 seconds of recording...

Can I get some WinXp drivers? The explorer recognizes the camera and i can play the film in the windows...

[EricB]

fabrice,

I no longer have VideoStudio 5.0 on my system, but I am fairly sure there is a check box in the capture setup that says "use device control" or "start camcorder" that will automatically start the playback device.

You can capture a whole tape to the drive, but I hope you have a large drive as DV is 216 MB / minute.

Two ways around capturing everything: Scenalyzer is a great DV capture utility and it allows indexing a whole tape (producing a small preview file) and then you can use the index to capture the parts you really need.

or

Pinnacle Studio7 or Studio8 support capturing a proxy file which is very small. You do all your editing to that file which references timecode on the original DV tape. When you are ready to produce the final video, Studio will capture only the sections required in full DV resolution.