Dowloaded & installed the above yesterday, am a little confused as to what is happening when I am capturing DV video, every so often a message refurs to 'Flushing DV Buffer', is this correct.
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Mike.
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You will only get that message if you are capturing direct to DVD/mpeg-2 format, instead of DV format. A mini-DV camera, as its name implies, uses the DV format when it films and it is a particularly good quality. If you capture via Firewire to DV format, you are in effect only transferring it to your computer and so it does not impose any demands on your computer resources.
If, on the other hand, you are capturing to mpeg-2 format, you are asking your computer to capture DV video and convert it to mpeg-2 on the fly. This is in fact possible, and quite a lot of people do it. But if your computer is not a particularly powerful one, it is a very demanding process and your computer might not be able to keep up with the volume of digital signal being sent over the firewire. Some of this signal is sent to a transcode buffer where it waits to be processed. But if the computer can't manage to convert all this information at high speed, eventually the buffer will fill up and the computer will halt the capture process until the buffer can be emptied. Then the capture will start again.
This is one of the reasons that we recommend that, as far as possible, people should avoid capturing from a DV source to mpeg-2. They should instead capture to DV format, do all the editing in DV format and only then go to Share > Create Video File > DVD to produce a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 file which can then be burned using Share > Create Disc > DVD.
If, on the other hand, you are capturing to mpeg-2 format, you are asking your computer to capture DV video and convert it to mpeg-2 on the fly. This is in fact possible, and quite a lot of people do it. But if your computer is not a particularly powerful one, it is a very demanding process and your computer might not be able to keep up with the volume of digital signal being sent over the firewire. Some of this signal is sent to a transcode buffer where it waits to be processed. But if the computer can't manage to convert all this information at high speed, eventually the buffer will fill up and the computer will halt the capture process until the buffer can be emptied. Then the capture will start again.
This is one of the reasons that we recommend that, as far as possible, people should avoid capturing from a DV source to mpeg-2. They should instead capture to DV format, do all the editing in DV format and only then go to Share > Create Video File > DVD to produce a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 file which can then be burned using Share > Create Disc > DVD.
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