Capture Video

  • With DVGrab (http://kino.schirmacher.de/)
    • dvgrab --frames 7000 --autosplit --index large capture
      creates files capture001.avi, capture002.avi, ...
    • file sizes: about 117K per frame, 7000 frames is 842M
    • NTSC video: 30 frames/second, 1 file is 2:40, 1 hour is 13 files (10.5G)
  • With Kino (http://kino.schirmacher.de/)
    • use dvgrab or Kino, whichever has the newer capture code (Kino as of now, Dec. 2002)
    • other editors will be similar
  • Camera controls 
    • DV converter is a camera too, as far as IEEE1394 is concerned
    • Video editors will have controls
    • gscanbus can control DV cameras
    • "Play" to DV converter means "capture", it does not run the VCR (unless it does, i.e. LANC)
    • Video must be already present when switching to capture, or first frames will be garbled
  • Performance considerations

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