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| RichardAD |
| Posted: Oct 21 2013, 08:26 PM |
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Hello:
New VirtualDub user here. Very glad to have found it.
I am _finally_ moving family DV tapes made on Sony TRV-310 to PC for safe keeping and later editing. Noob on several fronts.
Using Windows 7 Live Photo Gallery to import over firewire and that works nicely. The tape is even broken into reasonable content chunks. But sometimes there is a burp and I get a single several gig avi file that I would like to manually break up. VirtualDub is near perfect for that -- review, select a section and save as AVI.
The only thing I don't see upon default installation is the hidden date time stamp that the avi frames have associated with them. I have used DVDate by Paul Glagla previously. That program will show the Datecode value of a frame as the video is playing.
Q: Is there a way to have VirtualDub display Datecode information in an avi ?
Q: Do non-avi formats also have date code information embedded in them ?
Q: Is it wise / foolish to convert the original transferred avi's to mp3's in order to save space ?
Also, the avi's are created with Video Codec: DV Video (dvsd), res: 720x480, rate:29.970029, format:Planar 4:1:1 YUV. Audio Codec: PCM S16LE (s16l) Stereo, bps: 16.
Thanks for listening.
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| phaeron |
| Posted: Oct 27 2013, 10:34 PM |
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Timestamps are a feature of the DV format. Currently, VirtualDub does not support displaying this embedded time/date code.
Non-AVI formats that also hold DV compressed data should support these timestamps, as they are within the DV data itself.
If you recompress the audio format to MP3 and keep the video as DV without recompressing it, you won't lose the timestamps. However, other programs may stop recognizing them, and you won't save any space because what you'll have then is the original DV video and audio + a new copy of the audio in MP3. DV is a combined audio/video format; you can't keep only the DV video and use a different audio format.
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