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

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 14:18 -0400, Petri Laihonen wrote:
> 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 thought that DV was 1:1 with the raw data, and that it is MPEGx
(among other codecs) that gives the [567]:1 compression.

Or am I thinking of AVI?

But no.

I used Kino to capture DV from a camcorder. That file was sized
at ~14GB/hour. In other words, the video was 27 minutes long,
and ~6.7GB.

Then, again using Kino, I converted it to AVI, which shrunk the
file to 6.3GB.

Converting it to MPEG2 shrank it down to 1/7th the size.

> 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.

Appreciate the offer, but this would be for "regular" use.

> 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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