[Cin] Capturing DV/HDV via Firewire

[Terje J. Hanssen]

Den 27.02.2023 14:39, skrev Terje J. Hanssen:
> Better late than never! When I have digitized S-video to DV I have 
> been disappointed about less color saturation and darker pictures of 
> theDV result playback.
>
> Finishing Hi8 I just continued with VHS and vhsc digitizing, where red 
> and green were even lesser and weak.
>
> What I now found out to my surprise is that it is really the MX-1/TBC 
> that eats the colors in my work chain,  and not as exspected the A/DV 
> conversion.
>
> MX-1 has been known to include an effective, fullframe TBC, 8bit/422 
> brilliant color depth/sampling and 500 lines resolution, especially 
> the better PAL version. It is also a video mixer with noise filter an 
> a lot of effects like Chroma key.
>
> I have not found out if MX-1 can be set up with extended color 
> saturation.

Despite that this is off-topic and specific historical, I will 
supplement that MX-1's Advanced Setup also had Black level setting and 
Composite Chroma AGC.
Setting the latter Automatic Gain Control, compensates for RCA input 
source with weak color signal, ref. the MX-1 manual chpt 5 and this 
good, old forum's reply:
https://tech.churchofjesuschrist.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=149189#p149189

>
> But I had and have tested a Videotech Design VCC3010 high resolution 
> (700 lines!) RGB color corrector and video processor, with no need to 
> decode!
>
> A week ago I tested VCC3010 in front of MX-1, with no visible result. 
> That is, MX-1 did eat also these colors.
>
> But now when VCC3010 is connected after (behind) MX-1, the colors and 
> saturation on the DN-300 DV record loop/playback could be returned 
> closer to the analog source.
>
> Some will probably say colors can be added easy in the post. But I 
> prefer also the "digitized sources" keep the original color levels.
>
>
> fre. 24. feb. 2023, 17:52 skrev Andrew Randrianasulu 
> <randrianasulu at gmail.com>:
>
>
>
>     пт, 24 февр. 2023 г., 14:25 Terje J. Hanssen
>     <terjejhanssen at gmail.com>:
>
>         Happily, the DN-300 came back from the dead and is currently
>         converting and recording S-video to DV again, though it
>         somewhat fickly to get mounted "HDD enabled" via Firewire to
>         Linux  :).
>
>
>
>     \o/ I hope box will remain undead for at least as long as needed
>     for all works and tests :)
>
>
>         Den 19.02.2023 17:15, skrev Terje J. Hanssen:
>>
>>
>>         Den 19.02.2023 16:54, skrev Phyllis Smith:
>>>         Terje,
>>>         I can say with 100% certainty that here we have never tested
>>>         FIREWIRE but I did notice that the CV contributors did add
>>>         "ifdef FIREWIRE" in a few of the .C programs which
>>>         conceivably means that it can be built with the capability.
>>>         However, I guess I do not understand why you would want this
>>>         option since you stated:
>>>            "The reason is my 10 years old FireWire based DV/HDV
>>>         recorder seemingly is dead."
>>
>>             Sony FX7/HDV tape Playback/i.LINK -> Datavideo DN-300
>>             DV/HDV HDD recorder -> FireWire/Linux WS
>>
>>         Now when the M2T and DV recorder in the middle is dead, I
>>         have to transfer the files directly from the camcorder/player
>>         to the Linux WS.
>>
>>         Terje
>>
>>
>>>         Recently I successfully was able to do:  "Transfer VHS/DVD
>>>         Media or Video8/Hi8 Tapes into CINELERRA-GG" though.
>>>
>>>>                 Does this mean that Firewire/dv capture already is
>>>>                 supported or optional can be configured?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>             it was not tested in ages .....
>>>>             guess try to install all -dev version of libraries and
>>>>             look at output of cingg's configure .... then connect
>>>>             device and try to set capture device to iec* ....
>>>
>>
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