newbie to DV

Hi, Since there isn't any guide to DV capturing, and I am a newbie to it, I would appreciate any help I could get. I have a Canopus ADVC-100, and I want to use it to capture my laser disk, then using CCE, encode it. If possible, I would like the best quality possible. Would this be raw AVI? And would Adobe Premiere be a good program to capture with? Thanks in advance for any help. JoJo

Huffyuv (free): PicVideo MJPEG (best MJPEG codec, $18 non-commercial use): If you don't have a DV codec on your system, you might want to try the Mainconcept codec. The free trial decodes fine, but adds a watermark when encoding. As you want to decode only, this is no problem. Open your DV type-2 video in VirtualDub, add some smoother/denoiser filter, maybe a resize filter, and encode to your favourite video and audio formats. bb

Thanks, and please check your PM.

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