I'm a MiniDV dumbarse!!!

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 11:07 pm

I've been making films for a many-a-year now... But I'm about to go in to the world of Mini-DV.

I understand that you can just plug the camera in to my firewire port and just capture! Is this true? And do I need to get any DV codecs?

hanasand · Post by **hanasand** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 8:42 pm

You shouldn't need any codecs at all.. Mini-DV is heaven when it comes to editing.. Plug-in, capture and go crazy!

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 9:41 pm

Cool

I was told that but I was just a bit worried in case I started filming and couldn't get to work on the effects immediately...

hanasand · Post by **hanasand** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 1:22 pm

Ive experienced some DV-codec problems on the win98 OS, but if you have win2k, Me or XP it should be no problem

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 11:28 pm

I have Windows XP on one of my hard drives, but I rarely use it 'cus it wont recognise my sound card, and I can't install my analogue capture card on it (and they say XP is better for compatibility!).

I'll get a new sound card though if I have any problems, cheers...

hanasand · Post by **hanasand** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 12:05 am

Well screw the analogue capture card if you're getting mini-DV and firewire anyways!

The sound card problem is problably just out-dated drivers or something... But what OS are you running now? 95/98?

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 6:20 pm

98... No I can't screw my Analogue capture card! The thing cost me half the price of a Mini DV camera!!! Plus I still use it most days (I'm always sending MPEGs of old VHS footage to my mates

)

hanasand · Post by **hanasand** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 11:54 pm

Hahha allrighty then..

Well you see, I was going to play this movie I made for my uncles 40-year birthday. And it was going to be played from a laptop via a projector. Now, this fu**ing laptop runs win98. Usually not a problem, but when I tried to play my good old DV pal file from it, it just couldn't do it. And since I knew of no standard DV codecs to download I was stuck with showing it via my camera. So get a mate or someone to send you a small DV-avi file so you can check that everything is allright. I could even send you a small one

hanasand · Post by **hanasand** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 11:56 pm

( and sell that capture card on ebay or something, it's time to say goodbye to the analouge age )

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 12:42 am

I know Quicktime MiniDV files work, but if you have a small AVI then that would be great if you could send one over!

And I'm not selling it, remember I still use it!

hanasand · Post by **hanasand** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 1:53 am

Did you get it? Sent it to your hotmail..

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 11:42 pm

I never check my Hotmail! SHould have sent it to my proper Email! I'll have a look anyway, cheers

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:29 pm

I aint got your proper e-mail adress dude! Hehe...

Anyways you didn't get it in your hotmail.. something went wrong

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 10:34 pm

What about the one attached to the bottom of every single forum post? (Click on EMAIL

)

Anyway thanks for the clip! It played fine, although capturing is being a pain. In Win98 it just loads when I plug the camera in and does nothing else... In WinXP it recognises the camera but the capture screen in Premiere is just black

hanasand · Post by **hanasand** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 11:31 pm

And this is with the mini-dv camera?

Hmmm... Remember to select right format when starting a new project.. PAL instead of NTSC I guess.. Even though it doesn't matter when I capture footage.

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 7:13 pm

Ok now I can capture images... But I can only get the sound through the mic port... Meaning I have to use firewire for images and analogue for sound! Argh! I remember this happening to a friend of mine once many years ago... Anyone know what the problem is?

Post by **Matt** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 8:26 pm

It may be worth installing the latest Microsoft Mediaplayer software available from their site. Media player 9 is it?

There is also a codec pack available from their site as well I seem to remember.

My DV codec (in XP) seems to be called 'Microsoft DV'. Not sure where this codec came from but it was there before I got my camcorder.

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 11:20 pm

Ah ok when I get my next student loan (which, might I add, is going on film making stuff and NOTHING ELSE!!!) I'll get a sound card that works with XP, and download the latest media player codecs and what not.

insert_coin · Post by **insert_coin** » Sun May 04, 2003 12:58 pm

maybe you just need xp drivers for the card... what company makes it and what model is it? may be as simple as a new set of drivers

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sun May 04, 2003 4:20 pm

No it's all working fine now thanks! I think I was just worrying a bit.