Capture Utility

abowe wrote on 3/13/2006, 11:17 AM

I'm using MovieMaker version 4 but continually have to reconnect my DVcam. I've tried various fixes but none seem to help. I'm looking at using WinDV for capture. Is anyone using it successfully and what are the best settings for highest quality video capture?

Thanks, Al

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Chienworks wrote on 3/13/2006, 1:49 PM

Have you tried SONY's vidcap.exe program? It's already included when you install Vegas Studio.

abowe wrote on 3/14/2006, 5:39 AM

Sorry, I'm not sure what I was thinking. Anyway, I am using Movie Studio....from Sony. And it's the video capture that's included that I'm having problems with. It seems every couple of minutes I lose communication with the camcorder. I just wondered if trying something like WinDV might solve my problem but I also would like to know what setting in WinDV were be best for highest quality capture. Thanks, Al

G8R_J wrote on 3/14/2006, 3:06 PM

Al,

I ONLY use WinDv to capture video from my camcorder and it has worked flawlessly every time - never even a dropped frame. There really aren't to many settings to worry about, and nothing that will impact the quality of captured video. I set it to capture as type-2 AVI, discontinuity threshold=1 (will create new file for each break in time code of 1 sec - set to 0 will capture everything as a single large file), max AVI size (frames)=115000, every Nth frame=1. All you have to do is tell it where to save the files and what to name them. Here's a link to a helpful WinDv tutorial that explains the settings in more detail. Good luck!

http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/61/WinDV.aspx

Jay

abowe wrote on 3/15/2006, 7:09 AM

Thanks Jay, I'll give WinDV a try. Hopefully the rest of my questions will be answered via the URL you listed. Thanks again. I post my results.......

Al