Bob McKelvy
August 2nd, 2004, 12:56 PM
Howdy Folks,
Somewhere awhile back, someone wanted to know how to transfer raw DV footage to a DVD for long term storage instead of tape. I don't know if his question was ever answered. It faded out with time. I also had the same question. Didn't like the idea of keeping a lot of stock footage stored on 4 dollar DV tapes when I could keep them stored on a 29 cent DVD.
Through trial and error, I found a way to do this.
I use the Pinnacle 9 for capture. Will be moving up to Pinnacle Liquid later this year, not unless I come across something better. Open to suggestions for that.... Someone on this site suggested Vegas.
All of my captures go to my Maxtor 160 GB external HD and end up there as an avi file after the capture.
I reformat a blank DVD using Roxio Platinum. Heard that Nero works too, and I know there are a few others. Still a rank newbie in this dept.
I tried to drag and drop the freshly captured footage from the external hard drive to the freshly formatted DVD. Didn't work.
Created a file on my desk top, copied the footage from the external drive to it, from there to the DVD. It worked !! I don't know why. I'll leave that to the experts. Tested it by using the captured footage on the DVD to edit the video with Pinnacle studio 9. I could also transfer all of the video back to my exernal drive if I wanted to work with it there. Tried that too.
Also found a cheap source for blank DVD's 29 cents each and
CD's 17 cents each. http://www.meritline.com/
I am seeing a lot of horror stories on some of the problems that you all have been having with DV tapes. Been using Panasonic tapes for almost a year. No idea what quality they are. It says Panasonic DVC on them. No problems with them except for an occasional drop out that I can live with.
I know this is long. Thanks for taking the time to read it.
Bob :-)
Somewhere awhile back, someone wanted to know how to transfer raw DV footage to a DVD for long term storage instead of tape. I don't know if his question was ever answered. It faded out with time. I also had the same question. Didn't like the idea of keeping a lot of stock footage stored on 4 dollar DV tapes when I could keep them stored on a 29 cent DVD.
Through trial and error, I found a way to do this.
I use the Pinnacle 9 for capture. Will be moving up to Pinnacle Liquid later this year, not unless I come across something better. Open to suggestions for that.... Someone on this site suggested Vegas.
All of my captures go to my Maxtor 160 GB external HD and end up there as an avi file after the capture.
I reformat a blank DVD using Roxio Platinum. Heard that Nero works too, and I know there are a few others. Still a rank newbie in this dept.
I tried to drag and drop the freshly captured footage from the external hard drive to the freshly formatted DVD. Didn't work.
Created a file on my desk top, copied the footage from the external drive to it, from there to the DVD. It worked !! I don't know why. I'll leave that to the experts. Tested it by using the captured footage on the DVD to edit the video with Pinnacle studio 9. I could also transfer all of the video back to my exernal drive if I wanted to work with it there. Tried that too.
Also found a cheap source for blank DVD's 29 cents each and
CD's 17 cents each. http://www.meritline.com/
I am seeing a lot of horror stories on some of the problems that you all have been having with DV tapes. Been using Panasonic tapes for almost a year. No idea what quality they are. It says Panasonic DVC on them. No problems with them except for an occasional drop out that I can live with.
I know this is long. Thanks for taking the time to read it.
Bob :-)