CatDV Live Capture Plus
With Live Capture Plus you can easily capture an entire DV tape to disk, either at full DV resolution or using various compressed, lower quality preview formats. And if you use CatDV you can build up a CatDV catalog as a permanent and searchable record of your tapes' contents by directly creating previews and entering log notes in a single pass.
Live Capture Plus Features:
- Full DV device control
- Advanced, patent-pending capture technology
- Automatic retry if dropped frames or tape errors are detected, ensuring frame perfect captures every time (even when capturing to a slow external drive)
- Automatic capture of an entire tape or a programmed section between specified In and Out points
- Automatically split the capture into a separate file for each scene if desired
- Capture as a raw DV stream, MPEG4, or using any QuickTime codec
- Compress clips in background while capture is in progress, automatically pausing tape if necessary
- Build up a thumbnail catalog and type in logging comments while a tape is playing
- Operate as a standalone application or integrated with CatDV
- Automatic handling of timecode resets
- Automatic date-based grouping of clips belonging to the same subject
- New capture architecture guarantees perfect lip synch
- Powerful yet intuitive user interface
- Better control of movie size, with new options whether to adjust aspect ratio from DV native size, and to create previews with exactly half the native height to minimise interlacing effects. Updated OfflineRT and H264 presets (so they don't hardcode frame size, and provide different audio codec for Windows).
- Improvements to handling of timecode resets. New option to monitor audio during capture (Mac only).
- New option to limit duration of live captures. Display current date when previewing a tape. Minor user interface fixes (improvements to catalog notes field, fix Cmd-Up/Down shortcuts, etc.).
- Include a summary of any capture problems in the LiveCapture field when saving catalogs.
- Macintosh (Power PC or Intel) with built-in FireWire, running Mac OS X 10.3 or later
- 512 MB of memory or more
- DV camcorder or deck connected via IEEE 1394 interface (also known as iLink or FireWire)
