[CS-FSLUG] video capture

[Timothy R. Butler]

> I've given up on Analog video capture (tried both Linux and WinXP with 
> an ATI All-in-wonder card).  It has been suggested that I get hold of 
> a DV camera that accepts input from a VCR and connects to PC via 
> firewire.  If the camera can do this in "monitor" mode (no actual 
> recording on camera), even better.  I found this site:
> 	http://www.linux1394.org/

	I think there are a few companies that make a piece of hardware 
specifically for this... that might be preferable to trying to use a DV 
cam to convert VHS. Some of the TV tuner/recorder cards probably would 
do the trick... but you need one that has a built in MPEG hardware 
encoder, I think, for Linux.

> Does anyone here have any experience with this sort of thing?  My 
> objective is to transfer home videos in VHS format to digital - 
> probably some DVD format (of which there appear to be more than one).  
> Is there one piece of software that will 'capture' the DV from 
> firewire and prepare video for burning to DVD.

	I don't have Firewire on a PC, so I can't really help much there. If 
you have access to a Mac, it's stunningly simple. iMovie will import 
the footage. After that, you can choose whether or not to edit it, then 
it will export it into iDVD which will add a DVD menu and such if you 
wish. It all requires absolutely no prior experience. I did a project 
that took an hour of DV footage, a thousand or so photos, a sound track 
and different transitions and built it in about 6 hours -- i.e. I 
produced a feature length "movie" in one day. Just downloading and 
burning would take -- oh, maybe an hour and a half, including the time 
it takes to download and then burn on a 2x DVD-R.

	-Tim

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