Monday, August 17, 2009

Capture video from DVD

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.

How to transfer DV mini DV to computer for editing or backing up

Author: Susan Lyrics

What is DV?

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).

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.

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 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.

AVS Video Recorder help us transfer Video From DV and miniDV Camcorders
Save video on hard drive in cameras' native AVI DV format or directly in MPEG-2. Leave free space on your computer.

Transfer Video from HD-Cameras
Transfer your video files from HD-cameras and record them in camera native format or in MPEG-2

Step 1: Download and install AVS Video Recorder

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

videocapturedevice

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.

seceduler

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

settings

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.

capturevideo

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:

stopcature