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DVC VCRs with an analog line-in connection are being manufactured with a copy prevention system that interacts with the copy guard systems in pre-recorded videos (such as those you can rent from your local movie shop). Videos you have made will not have this prevention system, so there will be no problems making copies from your home-made VHS or 8 mm movies onto DVC VCR. However, we are told that, if you copie a DV rented movie to a Hi8 or 8mm machine the copieguard will be defeated. Also goimg through a mixer or color correctper workes sometimes.

And, of course, DVC's greatest advantage in editing is that the DVC copies of DVC originals are exact copies with no loss.

Digital capture with no generation loss. The DV capture application transfers the DV data stream from your camcorder or tape deck to your computer's hard disk. Because the capture is done digitally, there is no generation loss from your source tapes to your hard disk. Clips may be captured in real-time or as time-lapse movies. Both 4:3 and 16:9 widescreen aspect ratios are supported.

Keyboard deck controls. MotoDV also makes it easy to zero in on the scenes you want to capture by allowing you to control the DV camcorder or tape deck from the computer. The deck control keypad includes start, stop, pause, rewind, fast forward, slow play and step buttons. MotoDV's SearchDV feature automatically advances or rewinds to the next or previous clip on the tape. Each control on the keypad has an equivalent key command on the keyboard for fast, easy control.

using the DV circuitry in your camcorder to play back the streams at full size, in full motion, recording them to DV cassette tapes if you so desire. The DV Player may be used either as a stand alone application or from within Adobe Premiere or Digital Origin EditDV as an export plug-in.

QuickTime compatible. Clips captured with MotoDV are automatically converted to QuickTime format with separate audio tracks to make them easier to edit. Because Radius SoftDV is a QuickTime codec, you can edit and composite your footage in leading applications like Digital Origin EditDV, Adobe Premiere, and Adobe After Effects. You can also render computer-generated animations with SoftDV and output them digitally to tape.

Real-time capture. Gets all the information from the DV stream into your computer at full resolution (720 x 480 for NTSC, 720 x 576 for PAL), in full-motion (60 fields per second for NTSC, 50 fields per second for PAL)

Time-lapse capture. Captures frames at a specified interval to create time-lapse movies Support for widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio. Tags widescreen footage as 16:9 clips and adjusts the built-in preview to the 16:9 aspect ratio

On-the-fly QuickTime conversion. DV clips are converted to QuickTime format with a separate audio track so that they can be immediately used in any QuickTime application

Timecode display. Allows you to note the in and out points of the clips you capture, as well as the date and time you recorded your footage

Digital Origin PhotoDV. MotoDV includes Digital Origin PhotoDV, the award-winning utility that enables you to quickly and easily capture gorgeous still images. The frames you capture with PhotoDV are ideal for your web pages, either as stand alone pictures or as source images for 360-degree panoramas, 3D objects, and animated gifs. They also look great in a variety of printed materials and in online image databases. Integrated with Adobe Photoshop LE (included)

Digital Origin MotoDV $500. US