which software will import dv from camera

adimatis wrote on 6/10/2020, 12:43 AM

Hi Harry,

I remember many years ago when I had to save all my DV cassettes into computer files...

Oh, what times! :)

I used this little application http://windv.mourek.cz/

Yeah sure there will be other modern tools, but for me it did it at the time! And your question just triggered the memories! :)

Hope it helps!

Adi

Musicvid wrote on 6/10/2020, 12:51 AM

Vegas has built-in DV/HDV capture over legacy 1394 firewire.

File->Capture Video

A better DV capture utility is Scenealyzer. You can still find copies on the internet.

diverG wrote on 6/10/2020, 1:25 AM

Legacy 1394 firewire is not part of windows 10. The appropriate .msi will need to be downloaded from Microsoft.

Musicvid wrote on 6/10/2020, 11:45 AM

That is correct. Neither is it part of Windows 7.

haz wrote on 6/10/2020, 6:49 PM

Thank you all .

Unfortunately I will have to load a virtual drive as they don't run on windows 10.

Which vegas or other product do you recommend for basic editing that can import from the fire fire card.

Former user wrote on 6/10/2020, 10:09 PM

Either Vegas Pro or Vegas Movie Studio. Studio has less features, but is a very capable editor.

haz wrote on 6/11/2020, 12:18 AM

has anyone used handbrake??

thoughts please

diverG wrote on 6/11/2020, 2:40 AM

The legacy drivers will install and run under w10 but you still need a firewire card installed in order to connect to DV camcorder. I have the legacy drivers but cannot retest as camcorder has failed.

Not sure where the virtual drive fits in. Maybe try running virtual XP, it should work.

JN- wrote on 6/11/2020, 3:01 AM

@haz I purchased and used this firewire card in Win 10, the card was detected and the driver was automatically loaded.

I used the VP capture software.

Firewire card ... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002VA84E6/ref=pe_3187911_189395841_TE_dp_1

“TEXAS INSTRUMENTS XIO2200A CHIPSET WITH ADDITIONNAL POWER PLUG FOR A RELIABLE FIREWIRE SIGNAL”.

Musicvid wrote on 6/11/2020, 7:01 AM

@JN-

Is correct. Some non-TI chipsets just will not work. Goes way back to when legacy drivers were not ... well, legacy.

Kinvermark wrote on 6/11/2020, 9:18 AM

I had to get HDV off of a camera tape just a couple of months ago. Worked fine... already had a firewire port on my Windows 10 computer. Used HDVSplit software for the capture. Still works fine AFAIK.

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 6/11/2020, 10:46 AM

I still have a mytek 8X192 adda with a firewire interface and use Syba SY-PEX30016 adapters in my win10 machines... had to download the Microsoft Firewire 1394 Legacy Driver Installer to get them to run. Also use them to transfer HDV tapes from an old Canon camera using the video capture included in VP.