Capturing DV Film

[DRWP2005]

Hi everyone I have a question, if everything goes as planned this weekend I'll have like 3 hours of Mini DV tape captured. What I wanna do is get my tapes directly to a DVD, somehow, but I don't know that fastest way to do so, I'm told that I can expect to spend like 3 hours capturing 1 hour of tape.

 

So I guess I'm wondering whats the fastest way to do so, do I have to set up a bunch of different segmented clips, (like a min or so long) or is there a way to just transfer my entire tape at once without dropping a lot of frames?

 

I have Adobe Premier so that is probably the program that I will be using...if anyone has any advise I would love to hear it.

[Carnage]

It shouldn't take 3 hours to transfer one tape.

 

Assuming you're using firewire then transfering from tape should be pretty much realtime.

 

Adobe will let you grab the whole tape in one shot, though I haven't done this yet with Adobe.

[CoasterFanatic]

Firewire captures in real time. I don't know any other way it would work.

 

For compression, use something like TMPEG. It is less fluff and will get you down to where you need to be in no time.

[Angry_Gumball]

Pretty much, providing that you're using firewire to capture, it will take as long as what you have on tape. Say you shot 60 minutes, it will take 60 minutes to capture it onto a computer. From there you can compress it, put it directly onto DVD, and voila! You're done...or you can make life easier if you're lazy and shell out $30 bucks and send your stuff to Wal-Mart to send to us to do the DVD conversion for you...but you'd be faster doing it yourself if you have all the stuff available.

[DRWP2005]

Ok, So then Adobe should let me capture the entire tape then without having to break it up into smaller parts first?? Like capture all 60 minutes in one hunk? Because when I've captured in the past, I had to break it up into a bunch of different segments.

 

I'm not totally familiar with Adobe Premire, as I normally use Final Cut Pro, but Adobe is what I will be using to capture this time.

[Carnage]

^ Well I'm not familiar with how Adobe captures.

 

However whenever I've done it with Vegas it captures the whole tape at once, but saves them as seperate clips.

 

Adobe might do the same thing.