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mini DV to Computer Transfer

Digital Video (DV) is a digital video format launched in 1996, and, in its smaller tape form factor MiniDV, has since become a standard for home and semi-professional video production; it is sometimes used for professional purposes as well, such as filmmaking and electronic news gathering (ENG).

How to transfer mini DV to Computer

This article is for people who are not familiar with DV camcorders, and want to know how to transfer their videos onto the computer, then burn it to a DVD for editing or backing up.

Basically all DV camcorders use firewire. Most new computers come with firewire ports built in. The firewire port will most likely be located right next to your usb ports, they are larger ports with one side tapered off. If your computer does not come with firewire ports you can buy a cardbus (most are plus and play) for your laptop or an expansion card for your pc. You'll also need a firewire cable with a 4-pin (small connects to camcorder) connector on one end and a 6-pin (large connects to computer).

Once you connect your DV camcorder to your computer. You can capture the video in basically any video editing software. If you don't have video editing software mini DV to Computer works just fine, which can capture video on hard drive to cameras' native AVI DV format or directly to MPEG-2 and save your computer free space.

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Start to Transfer video from DV

Step 1: Select a video capture device (in case you have several) clicking it in the device list and set up its parameters.

mini DV to Computer Transfer

Step 2: Set the scheduler in case you plan to stop capturing automatically at a certain time or when the captured video file size exceeds some value.

mini DV to Computer Transfer

Step 3: Change the audio format and device settings using the provided options.

mini DV to Computer Transfer

Step 4: Start capturing.

After you set up all the capture device, audio and video device parameters and audio

format settings, you can start capturing video from the connected capture device. Click the Start Capture button to do that.

mini DV to Computer Transfer

After the capturing is over or if you press the Stop Capture button, you will be presented with the options of what can be done with the captured video:

mini DV to Computer Transfer