Need advice on DV capture

Kraznet_UK wrote on 7/24/2002, 8:33 AM
Hi there,
I wonder if somebody could advise me?. I need to transfer about two hours of footage onto my hard drive in order to edit it into smaller clips. It was a filmed using a Sony DSR200 DV camera with a firewire output. I wonder if somebody could tell me what is the best format for capturing this footage into VV3? The guy who did the filming (it is live band of footage) is planning on coming up to my place to do the transfer. I am presuming that the native file format of the camera is AVI am I correct? Do I have to capture it in AVI format first or is there another codec someone can recommend? Space is not a problem as I am planning on getting two 80gig Seagate 7200 hard drives and using them in a Raid 0 configuration.Also is there a reference somewhere which compares different codecs and the relative size of the files created. For example I know that with audio one minute of 16 bit 44.1khz uses 10 megabytes. So I would be interested find out similar formulas with regard to video.
Many thanks
Kraznet

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Chienworks wrote on 7/24/2002, 11:13 AM
The native format from a DV camera is AVI compressed with the DV codec and is about 1/5 the size of uncompressed AVI. DV requires about 225MB per minute. or about 13GB per hour. This is definately the best format to use for editing. If you have a 1394 firewire port in your computer then the transfer from the camera into Vegas' VidCap will be a bit for bit copy of the data from the tape (no translation or recompression necessary). If you don't have one, then get one! ;)

Your two 80GB drives should at least 11 hours of video. Keep in mind that you'll want probably as much space for the rendered file as for the source clips. That will still give you room to work on a 5.5+ hour project.
Kraznet_UK wrote on 7/24/2002, 6:37 PM
Thanks for your knowlege Chienworks.Yes I will need to get a firewire card as well.I will have to check out the knowledge base to see whats recommended.
Cheers
Kraznet

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riredale wrote on 7/25/2002, 12:34 AM
The magic phrase for a firewire card is "OHCI Compliant" and you are in business. To my knowledge nearly all the cards out there are OHCI Compliant. Some PCI cards offer not only firewire but also USB2 connections. Never hurts to upgrade to the newer and faster standard.
josaver wrote on 7/25/2002, 2:35 AM
I use a Conceptronics IEEE1394 card. And also a DSR200 camera. The transfer is very good. I use the native DV format for my editings and the quality is perfect, there are no quality loss, and the sonicfoundy codec for rndered clips is quite good.
Remember 2GB represent 9 minutes and 22 seconds in PAL format, I use PAL, I don't know in NTSC.

Josaver.

drdespair wrote on 7/25/2002, 3:19 AM
Majority of the card use the same Texas Instruments chipset.

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