Minidv to PC recommendation
So I see a lot of VHS to digital conversion. I'm not sure if MINI DV process is similar. I know that I need to play back with the camcorder to capture the video.
My main goal is to archive the video and also burn a copy to either dvd or blu ray. Question is, I see a lot of people recommending ATI AIW cards. What card would you guys recommend on the card for what I am trying to accomplish? You can assume I have a Windows XP that can handle this type of task. The format that I read so far would be capturing in MPEG-2 broadcast, is this correct? Please recommend a card and file type. Thanks. |
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[/quote]Question is, I see a lot of people recommending ATI AIW cards.[/quote]AIW and similar cards are designed for analog capture, not for DV. You need FireWire and software such as WinDV, which are ideal for XP. |
Can't I just playback over the RCA connection for the camcorder? I thought play back was involved and you had to playback to capture and not just copied over like a file?
I also have a bunch of Hi8 tapes as well. I think those might need a agp video card? |
Sure you can do that. It's your video. Expect some quality loss and frame timing/av sync problems.FirwWire doesn't "play" DV video. It copies it.
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Don't capture DV. It has never been recommended in this forum or any other. You'd be going from digital DV to analog to digital again, with quality loss and timing problems. You already have XP. A FireWire PCI/PCIe card is a mere $30 USD, and WinDV is free. An AGP board, AIW legacy card and outboard tbc will cost a lot more and you'll lose quality. It makes no sense to use an analog device for DV transfer.
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Okay, the mini DV use the firewire to "Copy"
Now what about the Hi8 tapes, what card do you recommend? |
Hi8 is analog. For that you can use an AIW agp or newer USB analog device, and capture using VirtualDub to YUY2 lossless AVI compressed with huffyuv or Lagarith lossless compression. Then clean up with Avisynth/VirtualDub and encode to whatever final format you want.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...html#post13441 Favorites from the legacy line are the AIW Radeon 7500 and 9600 series AGP. But they all give excellent results. You will also need a VCR with built-in line-sync tbc and and an external frame-sync tbc. It's possible that a Hi8 playback camera might have tbc built-in. |
Thanks for the suggestions I am going to look into those cards for the Hi8 tapes. I have many Hi8 and MiniDV to transfer.
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Capturing analog to lossless media is your best bet. Capture directly to lossy MPEG would work, but for edits and cleanup it's the wrong way to go. The forum has hundreds of capture and restoration threads confirming this.
[EDIT] The newer PCIe All in Wonders work just as well as the older AGP cards. |
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Yes, just semantics. WinDV copies, it doesn't "capture" in the way the term is applied to analog video.
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