How to capture to DV-2?

rwalker66 · Post by **rwalker66** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:12 pm

In DVDMF 4 when you were on the capture screen you would go to down to choose the format and when you chose "AVI" another dropdown menu would be available by clicking on "advanced settings". You could then tell it the DV type and other things.

In DVDMF 6 when you are on the capture screen and go to down to choose the format as "AVI" there is no advanced settings menu to tell it DV-1 or DV-2. So what does it capture in? I could not find the answer anywhere.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:33 am

Although this link is for DVDMF 5 it is easy to work out how to do this in DVDMF 6

More Detailed Project Properties Information.

rwalker66 · Post by **rwalker66** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:35 am

sjj1805 wrote:Although this link is for DVDMF 5 it is easy to work out how to do this in DVDMF 6

More Detailed Project Properties Information.

Thanks, but that wasn't really applicable to my situation. I followed the instructions and it did indeed put an advanced button on the MPEG properties section where compression is, but that button had nothing to do with telling the program to capture in DV-1 or DV-2. It just let you change MPEG settings for when it's time to make the actual DVD.

In DVDMF 4 on the capture screen when you choose AVI you get a different "advanced settings" button which allows you to choose DV-1 or DV-2. If in DVDMF 6 I just choose AVI it creates giant files because it just seems to be capturing in regular AVI. I recently upgraded from DVDMF 4 to DVDMF 6 and everything seems to be more complicated and less user friendly in version 6.

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:37 pm

First, I would suggest taking the Advance=1 out of the config file. Reason being it can break correct Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoding in MF which reduces quality. That seting use to work for older versions of VideoStudio & I guess MSP.

In MF6+ make sure to download & install Patch#2 from the ulead website.
When capturing in MF6+ you do select AVI, then MF will capture DV - Type2.
I think I've come across a problem capturing DV, not sure, the program seems to break the dv.avi file at 4 gig segments (not scene splitting). If running XP from a FAT32 OS the segments breaks are even smaller. Still have to verify this.

In MF6+ with Patch#2 installed. Capture some video with the format set to AVI. Then after capturing & returning back to the timeline. Right Click on the video & select "Media Properties". They should display DV-Type 2

The alternative right now if having problems is to capture using the free utility "Windv" and then insert the videos into the software. I have been capturing in MF6+ with patch2, it's capturing DV-Type2, the only problem I've come across is it is splitting my files slighting above 4gigs on a NTFS partition. It's not the same as file splitting when capturing to a FAT32 drive, that is not the issue.

rwalker66 · Post by **rwalker66** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:29 pm

etech6355 wrote:First, I would suggest taking the Advance=1 out of the config file. Reason being it can break correct Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoding in MF which reduces quality. That seting use to work for older versions of VideoStudio & I guess MSP.

In MF6+ make sure to download & install Patch#2 from the ulead website.
When capturing in MF6+ you do select AVI, then MF will capture DV - Type2.
I think I've come across a problem capturing DV, not sure, the program seems to break the dv.avi file at 4 gig segments (not scene splitting). If running XP from a FAT32 OS the segments breaks are even smaller. Still have to verify this.

In MF6+ with Patch#2 installed. Capture some video with the format set to AVI. Then after capturing & returning back to the timeline. Right Click on the video & select "Media Properties". They should display DV-Type 2

The alternative right now if having problems is to capture using the free utility "Windv" and then insert the videos into the software. I have been capturing in MF6+ with patch2, it's capturing DV-Type2, the only problem I've come across is it is splitting my files slighting above 4gigs on a NTFS partition. It's not the same as file splitting when capturing to a FAT32 drive, that is not the issue.

I did all you suggested. However when I captured some video by selecting AVI and then right clicked the clip and chose "Media Properties" it did not show DV-Type 2. See below for what it showed. Is this DV-Type 1?

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:41 am

That is DV Type 1.
I just captured some DV in MF6+ with Patch# 2 & the HD burning pack installed.
Each capture also came out as DV Type 1, I also didn't have the file splitting problem on the FAT32 drive that I had before.
Don't know, maybe I was wrong about MF6+ capturing type-2.
One thing's for sure, in XP & Vista the captures I just completed are DV-Type1.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:40 am

Just throwing in an observation here.
DVD MovieFactory is essentially a DVD Authoring program.
DVD's are made up of VOB files which are in fact MPEG2.

DV is a form of avi and comes in two flavors.
Type 1 - Video and Audio are in one combined stream.
Type 2 - Video in a separate stream to the audio and is included for compatibility with other video editing programs that do not work with type 1.

If you are using DVD MovieFactory to capture the video and are capturing in DV then it does work with Type 1 and so it does not need to be Type 2.
Therefore including the ability to choose between Type 1 and Type 2 would seem pretty pointless.

DVD MovieFactory will convert that DV format into MPEG2 to create the VOB files.