Q: Import DV video from camcorder tape to a single DV file?
I've looked around quite a bit on this forum and can't find an answer to this one...
I'm importing DV videotapes from an old Sony camcorder onto my Macbook Pro using iMovie 11. I have unchecked the iMovie import dialog box that says "Split days into new Events".
When I click import in iMovie the video is indeed imported.....but upon looking at my hard disk after the whole tape was imported, iMovie split my import into about 35 separate DV file clips.
I don't want all of these individual DV clip files....I just want to do a straight import from the camera tape to hard disk and have one resulting large DV file (which for an hour of DV video will probably be around 17 gig). If iMovie is going to split my single tape into 35 separate DV files then I'm going to have to go through the extra steps to create an iMovie project, assemble the clips into a movie within that project, export to a single movie file, etc. All of that just to get a simple import done....
Is there a way to use iMovie to just do an import from the DV tape to a single DV file on my hard disk? Or, do I have to find another piece of software to do this?
Any input would be greatly appreciated because I have about twenty DV tapes sitting on my desk and I need an easy way to import all of this stuff to archive it...
Thanks,
John
Posted on Oct 4, 2013 6:36 PM
JohnNY123
First off, nothing is wrong in what you are seeing.
Yes it is interlacing and DV is interlaced.
No matter what you use to capture your DV ( i.e. iMovie HD6, 9 ,11, Final Cut Pro 6 , 7 or X or QT7PRO ) what you would see would be the same as what you are seeing now.
You may want to view another clip in which you can see faster movement across the screen, the faster the better to see those" lines".
I think you will see something with QT Player but it seems to me to be de-interlaced, the lines blurr together.
View your clip in QT7Pro and click on Window at top. Select Show Movie Properties. Click on Video Track ( make it blue) and then on Visual settings. Now play around with Deinterlace or Single Field in bottom right hand corner and see changes to the 'Lines" If you select Deinterlace in 7 you see the same as viewing in QT player (10) .
When you close out you can save these changes.
If you open clip in VLC select Video at top and select Deinterlace to ON and then select Deinterlace Mode to Bob or others to suit.
This may provide you with what you want to see.
If you ever want to put your video onto DVD then I would suggest that you do not Deinterlace your source footage.
As you are wanting to archive this DV then do not change anything permanently ( above not included) as I am not sure if you will be able to return it to it's original interlaced state.
Posted on Feb 3, 2014 6:41 AM