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ahofle:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 29, 2009, 11:14:41 am ---I was doing a capture via firewire. As far as I could tell that's all that is available with this camera. Never saw anything in the documentation that referred to any sort of copy process. All of the crappy software that came with the camera was video CD capture stuff. It's a Sony but the model number is escaping me and I don't have access to it at the moment (might be this one).
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Yeah you should be able to capture using the Windows Movie Maker (or WinDV, another recommended program). Make sure when you capture, you select to use DV as the output format (not wmv or some other compressed version). Here's a quick guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/downloadvideo.mspx
You should end up with a 12GB (or so) avi file which is just plain DV. Any halfway decent video editor should be able to work with that format with no problems if you want to edit it or make a DVD at a later time.
ChadTower:
How is the eventual output quality with that method as compared to the original? Say original to DVD-VOB?
ahofle:
It's identical to what's on the tape, bit per bit (those tapes hold about 12GB of data). It's really less of a 'capture' and more of a slow, 1x-speed copy process.
shardian:
Amazon got this to me lightning fast, even with Free super saver shipping. First off, no HDMI cable. BOOOO!!!!! Grabbed my ankles for a $26 6 foot cable at Wally World so I could tinker with it. Cable will go back to store once I order a $3-4 cable online.
The remote and the unit are TINY. Even smaller than I expected. I am gonna have to get a Harmony remote, because I am gonna lose this little thing in no time. Without the remote, the unit is worthless.
I threw a dvd rip of Wall-E on there, and the box upconverted it to match my 720p TV. The upconversion is stunning. All the artifacting that normally shows up in darker scenes is gone. I have an MKV 1080P version of Wall-E at work so I can do a direct comparison, but I honestly don't think it can look that much better.
480 divx tv show rips look great. I tried out the pilot of Fringe, and it looked better than what my Phillips DVD player plays it at. TV says it was upconverted to 720p, and I assume it's processor also took some of the artifacting out of the low quality divx file too.
I'll have to do a bit more testing to see how much I really like it. I don't have preview JPEGS or anything, and my drive is cluttered. Thus, navigating is not very fun.
ChadTower:
Is it worth the $100 to upgrade from what XBMC already does for me? Keep in mind my TVs are 32".
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