I did find it odd that HitFilm was unable to import the files, especially as their website states that DV is supported.Īfter a spot of reading the man pages and a bit of experimenting, I found that dvgrab supports a slight variation on the dv format, called dv2. But after a bit of searching, it appears that quicktime for Windows has been deprecated for some years.
#Hitfilm express quicktime install
It did, however, suggest that I install quicktime. This is when things started to fall apart.Īlthough I could play the files in media player and VLC, HitFilm didn’t recognise them at all.
#Hitfilm express quicktime Pc
The tape played and files were written to the PC hard drive as a series of 1GB files.Īfter the capture had completed I copied the files over to my main (Windows 10) PC and fired up HitFilm Express to do some editing. So I duly rewound the tape and pressed ‘c’ to start the capture. If you press shift-? on the keyboard, dvgrab will show the keyboard commands that you can use in interactive mode. So after loading up a tape into the camcorder and connecting it to the PC, I fired up dvgrab in interactive mode using the following command: dvgrab -interactive This allowed me to control the camcorder via the Linux command line and, more importantly, to download the raw footage onto the PC.īy default the files are downloaded in raw dv format - excellent I thought - as this would preserve the footage exactly as it was recorded. It didn’t take long for me to stumble across a command line tool called dvgrab. I had no luck in finding anything with a nice GUI, so I was left with the good old command line! The camcorder does have the ability to playback the tapes via composite output, but firewire is fully digital and thus would give me the best possible quality.Īfter loading Ubuntu Linux onto the PC, I searched for an application that could pull the footage from the camcorder. A quick check confirmed that the firewire card would not fit into my regular PC, so hanging on to this old PC for a while longer was my best chance of getting the footage off the old mini dv tapes. I was looking to recycle an old, unused PC that was also in the loft when it occurred to me that the old PC had a firewire card installed. While tidying the loft I came across my old JVC Mini DV Camcorder that I purchased in about 2001.
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