Video Clip Capture Tool

I usually use my digital video camcorder to take small (but numerous) clips. I wanted save those individual clips as individual video files in my PC, but I couldn't find any tool to do that. So I wrote one.

This tool allows you to extract clips from your digital video camcorder.

1. Connect your DVC to your PC through IEEE.1394 (AKA "firewire")
2. Set it to the playback/edit mode
3. Launch this program.
4. The program will automatically rewind the tape
5. It will start saving each continous video clip as a new file into the current directory (if you run it from Windows Explorer, it will be the same directory as the program lives.)
6. The time stamp will be set for each file so that it indicates when the clip is recorded
7. Once the program hits the end of the recording, it will rewind the tape again. The end of the recording is either when the program hits a unrecorded region of the tape, or if the program finds that the timestamp of the recording is younger than the previous frame.
8. Done

Clips are recorded in the DV format, which is the same format used by the DV tapes. So this capturing process is loss-less. If you want to encode the clips to save diskspace, you can do by using other tools.

Download

Download the binary (2005/04/08). You need the Microsoft .NET runtime to run this application. It can be installed by visiting Windows Update.

Changelog

• (2005/12/28) Fixed a bug in decoding timestamp in a video frame, which prevented the tool from recognizing October, Novemember, and December correctly.
• (2005/12/28) Started bundling the source code.