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Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2: Visual Quickstart Guide
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Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2: Visual Quickstart Guide

by Jan Ozer
May 2004
Beginner
400 pages
10h 25m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 4. Capturing DV

I've been a big fan of the digital video (DV) format since I acquired a DV camcorder back in 1996. Not only was the quality better than my Hi8 camcorder, capture was also much simpler. And since DV camcorders record the time and date of each shot, Windows Movie Maker can divide captured video into scenes, making it easier to find the clips to include in the project.

Just to get our terms straight, the term video capture was coined in the olden days, when transferring analog video from camcorder to computer required a “capture card” that converted the analog signal to digital and then compressed the video so it would fit on disk. Today, all that occurs on the DV camcorder, which stores the video on tape as a digital file ...

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