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Excerpts from Mark Haney's message of Sat May 24 02:37:00 +1000 2008: |
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> Okay, this will be my first foray in getting digital video from a DV |
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> camera. And only about the 3 or4th time I"ve ever used firewire. So, |
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> my questions are: |
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> What app do I need to use to get the video from the camera? Anything |
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> specific? |
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I recommend a program called Kino. It's really easy. |
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> Any good HOW TOs on the best way to transfer it? |
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> I've never used firewire in Linux (only on a Mac) so is there any |
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> 'gotchas' I should know about? |
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The only problem I ran into was having to have the IEEE1394 stuff as a module in the kernal as it often doesn't work when built in. |
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Just google for Kino walk-through's. I believe that's the simplest way I could find of transferring the DV to computer. Kino has basic editing |
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functionality. |
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