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describes how to take your home movies off your digital camcorder (miniDV format), put them on your computer, edit them, convert them to a compressed format or other format suitable for posting on the web, or burning them to DVD and CD for sharing with family and friends.
== Intro ==
I have a video camera and several tapes with movies on them. I have always intended to take the movies off the tapes as they were recorded, and transfer them to my PC. Once on the PC, I want to edit the movies (delete scenes, add transitions, etc.) I also want to use the PC for either permanent archival (since disk is relatively cheap), or transfer the movies to CD / DVD for permanent storage. Actually, this is the biggest goal of all: turning my home movies into something on CD or DVD that I can easily watch and share. Starting the New Year off right, I decided I would take the plunge and finally do it. Here then is my tale.
Coriander is a GUI that lets you control all the features of an
IEEE-1394 Digital Camera complying with the DC Specifications v1.04 or
later (see [http://www.1394ta.org]).
'''dvgrab''' Grab digital video data via IEEE1394 links