On 06/01/2017 06:46 AM, Carl Hartung wrote:
I've worked with 'raw' digital video data in .dv format many times since Cinelerra and kdenlive use it as their native file format. What I didn't recognize until just now was the digital-8 connection. :)
Oh yes... And I'm still lucky enough to have 2 of them. Fantastic 3-CCD cameras, that do 16:9 wide-screen, etc.. I'll use them until they die (or until I can't find a firewire port anymore -- which is getting damn hard to find) Luckily my new(used) laptop HP 8760w comes complete with firewire and all my servers have it. Using 'dvgrab' from the command-line is a wonderful utility. It will locate the small silence created by pressing the 'Record-Standby' button and create separate clips of each video clip for you (with nice date-time prefix so all your clips are nicely ordered as well. Literally, I have a little script that will run and rewind the tapes, download the dv clips, create a log file of the clips with their associated date-time, then rewind the tape again at the end, eject it and wait for me to put in the new tape. dvgrab is the swiss-army-knife for getting dv off tape over firewire :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org