Exsate DV Capture Live

Exsate DV Capture Live is a freeware program for Windows. This program provides all the necessary tools to capture DV video directly from a camcorder, encode, and save it as a video file in any of these formats: DV AVI (type 1 and 2), AVI, and ASF (WMF).

We can connect and operate our camcorder from the computer by using a Firewire IEEE-1394 card. Best of all, it is possible select a tape capture mode (from the beginning, selected position, whole tape, an interval). We can choose how to display the recorded DV date and time stamp (always, every scene, once a day/hour).

The program's wizard provides step-by-step instructions, making the whole task very easy to do, just with a few mouse clicks and without the need of extra applications. In order for the program to run efficiently, we must have a hard disk drive formatted to NTFS, and with plenty of free space. In addition, we can configure the program to rewind the tape and shut down our computer after it has finished the project. This program is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista (New!), XP, and 2000, operating systems.