I cant find the old post on the video capture thing I need to move the video footage from the digital tape in my cam corder to a DVD and maintain the higest quality so I can send the DVD's to FED for process by the expert.

What program and settings do I use?

I tried the image transfer program sony sent with the camera the quality was so low why bother.

Come on you video guya give it up what are you using can I copy direct from camcorder to DVD?

If Fed's going to edit them for you then don't put them on DVD in video format. Leave them in the HUGE DV format. Its the native recorded format and is pre-compression for DVD.

Otherwise he'll get video that has already been compressed to MPEG and will not look too good once he processes it a second time.

What DV format are they 8mm or 4mm? Either format you can send to me and I'll make a tape copy and send them back to you.

If your software allows you to copy tapes then I'd strongly suggest it.

It will use a lot of disk space to temporarily store the native files. Then you use your camera with a new blank tape to write the copy. Delete the temp file afterwards.

If by chance you need a 8mm DV tape put onto two 4mm DV tapes I could do that as well for you.

Thanks

Right now I am going with your advice you gave in the chat
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... video.mspx

Doing the first tape right now will let you know how it goes.

What would you call taking it from the tape to a DVD I want to see if their is a program on http://sourceforge.net/ that will do the same

At least two ways to go to DVD.

Rendeing it as MPEG2 and making the DVD playable in a player.
Not recommended for editting, fine for viewing though.

And secondly: Limit the length of a clip to be 4 GB and copy the .DV file (Or .AVI file) onto the DVD as a file. Warning a 4GB fielin DV format will be short. You could also use winzip to chop the file up into 4 GB chunks.I personally find it better to limit the save to 4GB.

This is a Data DVD like used for backup. Its big and bulky. This format will still have the time coding and progressive frames so its friendly for editting.

But, it will allow the recipient to use it for editting into a movie that then you render onto a Video DVD. The rendered version will be missing a lot of detail as its compressd into Mpeg Format.

When I tried this last night. I opened the Brooks Roll and it was 75 MB. I then dragged it onto the story board in the lower part of the program screen. Then I chose to save as and was able to select the output file format. The save is under step 3 "Save to my computer". It calcs the output file size given the quality you choose and if you notice its nearly if not the same as the original DV file was when you selevt DV AVI.

I'll ask around about sourceforge projects. Video Lan Client is what we use here in the lab. But, that's mostly for streaming and not editting.

http://www.videolan.org/

Thanks, I use VLC for a media player (not as bloated as MS player) I didnt know you could use it for capture too I will give it a try.

Ok I don't see how to make VLC capture the video but it will play it fine any tutorials on how to make it capture the help is empty heh.

After closer look at my video I think part of the problem is the lens cover used to protect the camera eye is slightly sand blasted this kinda makes the video fuzzy then after a capture more quality is lost grrrr guess I need a new lens cover and we will have to go back and tape it all over again.

Try here:
http://www.videolan.org/doc/

Paruse through their html pages.
I have yet to use for capturing. You may need to stream it to capture on a second client. Or do a transcode.

I don't use it to get my content into the computer.
But, with its updates as of lately I'm considering it for my Linux box.
I want to live stream off from my HDTV interface.

No time though.

If you are going to make me do another endo for you, make sure to keep it turned on, and be sure to follow stitch closely(you know why!) LMAO!