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The DV Transfer Utility

Preview

Capture to a File

File Transfer to Camera


The DV Transfer Utility

You can use the DV Transfer Utility to perform the following functions.

Preview footage from your DV camera,

Capture from the camera to a file on your hard drive

Transfer File to the camera.

To open the DV Transfer Utility, pull down the capture menu and select DV Transfer Program.

Make sure your camera is connected with a firewire cable into a firewire card in your computer and that the camera is on and in VCR mode.  (Not playing)

Preview

Capture to a File

File Transfer to Camera


Capture to a File

To capture from your DV camera to a file on your hard drive, pull down the DV to File menu.  From the Change Decode Size submenu you can select the dimensions of your captured video.  From the Capture Size submenu, you can set a time or size limit or none.

Make sure your camera is stopped in the VCR mode.

Step 1: From the DV to File menu select DV to File (type 2).  This will allow you to choose a filename and destination folder. The default folder is the Zwei-Stein folder, located wherever you installed Zwei-Stein (typically C:\Program Files\Thugs at Bay\Zwei-Stein).  The default file name is Output.avi.  You may choose any name and folder you like.

Step 2: Wait for the camera to start playing the tape.  If the camera has not started to display the video yet, the capture will not work.  (Note that the video will not playback in the preview window until you press record)

Step 3: Press the red circle record button, located on the right above the preview window.  This starts the recording process.  To stop recording, press stop.

If you need to rewind or fast forward your tape after you have selected a file name, you can.  Use the buttons above the preview window.  Note, however, that you can not press the stop button or the capture process will be stopped.

For more information see the Preview section.

The DV Transfer Utility

Preview

File Transfer to Camera


Preview

You can use the DV Transfer Utility to operate the camera and preview the video before transfer.  You can not preview audio.  The program is automatically in preview mode.  You may notice the preview option under the file menu.  Please ignore this option.

To preview, use the play, play rewind, play fastforward, fastforward, rewind and stop buttons located below the pull-down menus.  They have tool tips to identify themselves.

Preview buttons (except stop) can be operated after you have entered a file name and initiated the Capture to a File procedure, they can not be operated after you have initiated the File Transfer to Camera procedure.

For more information see Capture to a File and File Transfer to Camera

The DV Transfer Utility

Capture to a File

File Transfer to Camera


File Transfer to Camera

To transfer from a file on your hard drive to your camera, pull down the File 2 DV menu and select File (type 2) 2 DV.

Deduce that if you didn’t capture the video with this program, it may not be the right type. It has to be DV (type 2) format.

The video will start to play back both in the Preview window and on your camera.  To start transfer, press the record button (red circle button on upper right)

Please do not press stop or pause until you have transferred the video.  If you need to stop without recording, close the program.  There are some problems here that will be ironed out, keep eyes open for next version.

You can not navigate file or tape after you have selected a file to transfer.

The DV Transfer Utility

Preview

Capture to a File