CapDVHS and WinDV 1.2.3

4 May 2005 8:46 PM

C.J.Patten

Hey folks!

Looking to streamline my workflow and use a dedicated capture (well,
"transfer") program for grabbing DV via Firewire.

I think someone here mentioned the CapDVHS program and I found another in a
LiveJournal on video editing.

Anyone use both of these? Here are the links:

CapDVHS http://www.yamabe.org/softbody.html#CapDVHS (Japanese but there's a
button for the English download with a readme included in the zip)

WinDV 123 http://windv.mourek.cz/

They're both TINY and FREE.

Their settings actually seem more "tweakable" than anything else I've used.

Comments appreciated!

(I'm a little gun-shy of using anything but Premiere to capture after doing
a 1 hour tape with Windows Movie Maker 2 and finding the clip unusable in
Premiere... grrrrrr...)

_________

PTravel: I downloaded Scenealyzer but didn't have much luck with it.

I admit I think I may not understand how to use it - or maybe I couldn't do
what I needed with the free version.

Thanks guys!

Chris

4 May 2005 9:52 PM

Alan Shepherd

Well MovieMaker can export as DV format Avi ......

I've used WinDV and it's lovely, very efficient, and does it's job, but I
set it to split capture files at 1 Hour, not the default of a few minutes;
it's just a pain joining loads of small files. It works well with
VirtualDub, and if you set it to type 2 avi's you'll have no problems with
it.

CapD-VHS seems more in tune with timer recordings. If that's what you want
..... maybe, but personally for manual recordings I prefer WinDV.

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> Looking to streamline my workflow and use a dedicated capture (well,
> "transfer") program for grabbing DV via Firewire.
>
> I think someone here mentioned the CapDVHS program and I found another in
> a LiveJournal on video editing.
>
> Anyone use both of these? Here are the links:
>
> CapDVHS http://www.yamabe.org/softbody.html#CapDVHS (Japanese but there's
> a button for the English download with a readme included in the zip)
>
> WinDV 123 http://windv.mourek.cz/
>
> They're both TINY and FREE.
>
> Their settings actually seem more "tweakable" than anything else I've
> used.
>
> Comments appreciated!
>
> (I'm a little gun-shy of using anything but Premiere to capture after
> doing a 1 hour tape with Windows Movie Maker 2 and finding the clip
> unusable in Premiere... grrrrrr...)
>
> _________
>
> PTravel: I downloaded Scenealyzer but didn't have much luck with it.
>
> I admit I think I may not understand how to use it - or maybe I couldn't
> do what I needed with the free version.

4 May 2005 10:12 PM

C.J.Patten

Cool. Thanks for the input Alan. I'll try WinDV first - it looked the most
promising.

FYI: I've tried Windows Movie Maker for captures and they *appear* fine but
then seem to break when I take them in to other programs for "serious"
editing.

Hrm. Maybe that's a type 1 or type 2 AVI issue...? I don't think you can
make ANY tweaks in WMM whereas these tools let you do just about anything.

Any thoughts on type 1 versus type 2 AVI's?

Thanks!

C.

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"Alan Shepherd" <spam@awshepherd.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Well MovieMaker can export as DV format Avi ......
>
> I've used WinDV and it's lovely, very efficient, and does it's job, but I
> set it to split capture files at 1 Hour, not the default of a few minutes;
> it's just a pain joining loads of small files. It works well with
> VirtualDub, and if you set it to type 2 avi's you'll have no problems with
> it.
>
> CapD-VHS seems more in tune with timer recordings. If that's what you want
> .... maybe, but personally for manual recordings I prefer WinDV.
>
>> Looking to streamline my workflow and use a dedicated capture (well,
>> "transfer") program for grabbing DV via Firewire.
>>
>> I think someone here mentioned the CapDVHS program and I found another in
>> a LiveJournal on video editing.
>>
>> Anyone use both of these? Here are the links:
>>
>> CapDVHS http://www.yamabe.org/softbody.html#CapDVHS (Japanese but there's
>> a button for the English download with a readme included in the zip)
>>
>> WinDV 123 http://windv.mourek.cz/
>>
>> They're both TINY and FREE.
>>
>> Their settings actually seem more "tweakable" than anything else I've
>> used.
>>
>> Comments appreciated!
>>
>> (I'm a little gun-shy of using anything but Premiere to capture after
>> doing a 1 hour tape with Windows Movie Maker 2 and finding the clip
>> unusable in Premiere... grrrrrr...)
>>
>> _________
>>
>> PTravel: I downloaded Scenealyzer but didn't have much luck with it.
>>
>> I admit I think I may not understand how to use it - or maybe I couldn't
>> do what I needed with the free version.
>
>

5 May 2005 4:59 AM

Alan Shepherd

> Cool. Thanks for the input Alan. I'll try WinDV first - it looked the most
> promising.
>
> FYI: I've tried Windows Movie Maker for captures and they *appear* fine
> but then seem to break when I take them in to other programs for "serious"
> editing.
>
> Hrm. Maybe that's a type 1 or type 2 AVI issue...? I don't think you can
> make ANY tweaks in WMM whereas these tools let you do just about anything.
>
> Any thoughts on type 1 versus type 2 AVI's?
>
> Thanks!

AMCap captures as type 1, and very few programs will import them, all the
programs I've tried work with type 2....

AMCap's great advantage is that it previews with video & sound, WinDV just
gives video, and CapDVHS does'nt seem to give either.

10 May 2005 2:44 AM

PTravel

C.J.Patten wrote:

> Hey folks!

>
> PTravel: I downloaded Scenealyzer but didn't have much luck with it.
>
> I admit I think I may not understand how to use it - or maybe I

couldn't do

> what I needed with the free version.
>
> Thanks guys!
>
> Chris

Sorry, I missed this part of your post. Only Scenealyzer Live can do
captures. The freeware version won't capture, but it will take an
already-captured file and split it into clips automatically based on
day/date/timecode or optical detection. Now that Premiere Pro can do
this, there's really not so much need for it.