Dv Camera Software

[BEASTIEBOYS]

i have a mini DV digital camcorder...it came with software but it doesn't let me simply import them to my hard drive.....what is the best software to import those movies recorded on that lil cassest onto my hard drive? There are a lot of titles but does anyone know the best one?-thanks

[locustfurnace]

Dont suppose you happen to be running a GNU/Linux box? If so, you could try

• Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in RawDV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.
  
• You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list (SMIL XML format). Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi key commands. Also, Kino can load movies and export the composite movie in a number of formats: DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX. Still frame export uses Imlib1, which has built-in support for PPM, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and whatever your ImageMagick installation supports. MP3 requires lame. Ogg Vorbis requires oggenc. MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX require mjpegtools 1.6.0. RPM and Debian packages as well as tarballs are available.

or try Ulead VideoStudio for Ms Windows, very easy to for novice

• Ulead VideoStudio™ 8 is home video editing software that makes editing your movies as fun as shooting them. And, if you've never edited a movie before, make one in three easy steps using the new Movie Wizard mode. Share finished projects on DVD, tape, the Web, and mobile devices. Unmatched stability, high-speed rendering and real-time performance mean less waiting and more time for creating.

also VirtualDub also listed on Oldversion mainpage.

• VirtualDub Freeware
• is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (98/NT/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
  
  FlasKMPEG Freeware.
• FlasKMPEG is a free easy to use video conversion software utility
  FlasKMPEG converts digital video in the MPEG format to other formats. FlasKMPEG is very easy to use and at the same time powerful and fun! Here are some of the few features ...
  

Also. check this past posting for video software
http://www.oldversion.com/talk/index.php?a...&f=3&t=1468&hl=

[Pistol]

If you have win xp try movie maker all you need is the propper driver for your video card