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Capturing video from an HDV/HD camcorder
After you have connected an HDV/HD camcorder and properly set up the device
for capturing (see
Capture program will automatically set the capture plug-in and device control to
HDV Capture Plug-in and HDV 1394 Device Control respectively.
• To check if your HDV/HD camcorder has been detected, select Setup: HDV
Capture Plug-in. You will see the name of the camcorder in the menu.
• To check if the proper capture plug-in and device control are being used,
select Setup: Change Capture Plug-in/Device Control.
The HDV Capture Plug-in converts the source video from your HDV or HD
camcorder into an MPEG-2 Program Stream (PS) video file when capturing it into
your computer. By converting the video, it allows you to take advantage of
MediaStudio Pro's SmartRender technology when you edit the captured video clips
in Video Editor. SmartRender is a technology that permits "changes-only"
rendering. This means that whenever you preview your edits or create a video file,
only the clips which have been altered will be rendered.
Follow the instructions in
video. In addition, when Auto (no time limit) is chosen as the Capture method
in the Options tab of the Capture Video dialog box, select Seamless capture to
automatically save the captured video as another video file once it reached a size
of 4GB. Use seamless capture if your hard drive was formatted using the FAT32 file
"Connecting an HDV camcorder" on page
"To capture a video sequence:" on page 213
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