#MINI DV BACKUP MP4#
#MINI DV BACKUP SOFTWARE#
#MINI DV BACKUP WINDOWS#

#MINI DV BACKUP MP4#

Since it sounds like many of those clips are not dv anymore but mp4 (assuming h264 codec), your choices appear to be:ġ. In other words, if you start with dv it would have made sense to both capture and edit in dv before encoding to your final destination format. The detriment of mp4 is the complexity, and difficulty of editing, due in large part by the efficient LongGOP compression. The benefit of mp4 is the space & birate savings, due in large part by the efficient LongGOP compression. If one of you catch the video bug, you can then move up to a more fully-featured video editing program. All it does is dump your HDV DV files (which are really MPEGs) onto your computer.Īfter you have your DV (SD or HDV) files on your computer, you can then trim/edit them with VideoRedo and save them in MP4 format. I can vouch for it's safety I have used it for years and it's fine.įor High Definition DV ie HDV, use HDVSplit (again. And it does this without re-encoding your video, provided you save it in the same format, which in your case would be MP4.įor Standard Definition DV, use WinDV as mentioned by Ocotber262. It has basic intro titling and cutting (fade, hard or blend/dissolve) so for trimming and cutting out bad bits, it is brilliant.

VideoRedo is a 'half-way' editor: you can select the bits throughout the file you want to get rid of, to frame-accuracy. Or it will re-encode your DV files into MP4 after you have trimmed them. This fantastic program will cut up your MP4s (and just about any other video file) and losslessly save them in the original format if they were MP4 or MPEG. We tried paying a friend $1000 to do it and he made mistakes.Īnswer: Videoredo. This has been a project for many years that we have not been able to do. Some of these were recorded with a mini dv HD camcorder so we want to keep the HD quality for those tapes.

#MINI DV BACKUP SOFTWARE#

First we need a software program that will be able record through PCI-E firewire IEEE 1394 three port fire wire that is installed in our PC. I hope there is a way to trim MP4 video because we have hundreds of hours from 2015 on that can never be trimmed since they were recorded with the Vixia SD card. We think that is the term for cutting the parts out that you don't need. He mentioned only convert to MP4 if that is the final product.

#MINI DV BACKUP WINDOWS#

We can play it in Windows Media Player.Ĭornucopia was nice enough to reply last time I posted this six months ago. Since 2015 we have used a Canon Vixia HD with an SD card. We run a corporation and can't take chances with freeware infecting our PC'S. Also there were many parts that were cut out completely. One batch only plays with a VLC player and the other does use Windows media player which is what we want to use. We tried paying a friend $1000 to do it and he made mistakes. My family has mini dv tapes that we need to transfer to our pc. Hi, I posted this before and did not really understand what to do.

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