Difference between revisions of "Automatic Capture and Convert Digital Camcorder Video"
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There are hundreds of software applications that can capture Digital Video from a [[wikipedia:IEEE 1394|IEEE 1394]] camcorder (pretty much any camcorder after analog [[wikipedia:hi-8|hi-8]], before [[wikipedia:MPEG|MPEG]] camcorder era). Some for money and others for free. However, faced with several shoe boxes full of Mini-DV tapes, what I needed was a nearly automatic system. Like pop-in the cassette to the camcorder (which is connected to the computer via [[wikipedia:IEEE 1394|IEEE 1394]] cable) and `press a button' to get the whole content of the cassette captured, [[wikipedia:deinterlace|deinterlaced]] and [[wikipedia: | There are hundreds of software applications that can capture Digital Video from a [[wikipedia:IEEE 1394|IEEE 1394]] camcorder (pretty much any camcorder after analog [[wikipedia:hi-8|hi-8]], before [[wikipedia:MPEG|MPEG]] camcorder era). Some for money and others for free. However, faced with several shoe boxes full of Mini-DV tapes, what I needed was a nearly automatic system. Like pop-in the cassette to the camcorder (which is connected to the computer via [[wikipedia:IEEE 1394|IEEE 1394]] cable) and `press a button' to get the whole content of the cassette captured, [[wikipedia:deinterlace|deinterlaced]] and [[wikipedia:Transcoding|transcoded]] to [[wikipedia:MPEG-4|MPEG-4]] -- a format that is far more suitable for computer storage and playback. |
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Introduction
There are hundreds of software applications that can capture Digital Video from a IEEE 1394 camcorder (pretty much any camcorder after analog hi-8, before MPEG camcorder era). Some for money and others for free. However, faced with several shoe boxes full of Mini-DV tapes, what I needed was a nearly automatic system. Like pop-in the cassette to the camcorder (which is connected to the computer via IEEE 1394 cable) and `press a button' to get the whole content of the cassette captured, deinterlaced and transcoded to MPEG-4 -- a format that is far more suitable for computer storage and playback.