RE: [Nolug] Video capture from VCR to DV using a firewire or USB2 device

Ron,

You need to remember that one can not edit without first grabbing the
video from which ever source.

How much footage you have?
Does it fit onto a 40gb firewire drive? DV compression is always 5:1

I could arrange you an acces to the VCR deck --> DV deck (with transcoder)
and then get the footage to the firewire drive.

However, I will be very busy until atleast to the end of August. If you
are in no hurry.

P

> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 11:32 -0400, Petri Laihonen wrote:
>> I never received the original post, but here are the keywords needed:
>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=video+editing+linux+dv
>>
>> One may add the word "pro" or "prosumer" to it as well.
>
> That's *editing*. Don't want to edit. Want to capture from an
> analog source. Besides, I've found that grabbing DV from a
> camcorder is trivial with kino and dvgrab.
>
>> NOTE!
>> USB2 is NOT suitable for video editing.
>>
>> Additionally, if your souce is non-dv, such as most VCR's. You need a
>> transcoder (another keyword for google) in betwwen your analog signal
>> and
>> DV signal. On the computer end, any $30 Firewire controller is enough
>> hardwarewise.
>
> Ok, I'll add that to my Googles.
>
> [snip]
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On
>> > Behalf
>> > Of Ron Johnson
>> > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 3:47 AM
>> > To: NOLUG ML
>> > Subject: [Nolug] Video capture from VCR to DV using a firewire or USB2
>> > device
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Anyone know of a way to do such a thing? I've googled my fingers
>> > off, but nothing looks really promising.
>> >
>> > It needs to be an external device because my PC is SFF, and there's
>> > no real room for a PCI video capture card.
>> >
>> > (It's possible using a modern camcorder as an intermediary, but
>> > I'd rather connect the VCR to the external device, run start up
>> > a linux program, press the VCR's play button, and directly capture
>> > the video. But since I don't have such a camcorder, that's not
>> > even a work-around solution.)
>
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