Comment Re:Portable and cheap if you have a decent laptop (Score 2, Informative) 259
If you can afford it, DV Rack is a great software solution for direct-to-disk capture. It has some neato tools to make sure you are getting the best picture you can. It also has this cool feature that constantly buffers video, so when you hit the record button on your camera, it actually records several seconds of video prior to pressing the button. Perfect for those times when something happens real fast and it takes you a second to react.
Every DV camera I have ever used outputs video to the firewire port whenever the camera is on. I don't believe it is common to find one that doesn't.
You can always capture directly into editing software too, but it is a little more cumbersome.
Every DV camera I have ever used outputs video to the firewire port whenever the camera is on. I don't believe it is common to find one that doesn't.
You can always capture directly into editing software too, but it is a little more cumbersome.
