How Do I Capture Video In My Macintosh ?Apple's QuickTime and iMovie software take care of most of the technical details for TD Video. You should be able to copy video directly from your digital camcorder into TD Video without quality loss.
Capture With TD Video
TD Video can communicate directly with miniDV and Digitial8 (DV) camcorders through the QuickTime framegrabber - FireWire interface. TD Video can also communicate with media converters like the Thomson Grass Valley (Canopus) ADVC110 through this same FireWire based interface. You can capture video live at the game or afterwards using TD Video. When you capture with TD Video, you have to manually specify the beginnings and ends of clips.
A media converter manufactured by Thomson Grass Valley (formerly Canopus) (ADVC110) is shown below. These media converters can be used to digitize analog video from analog camcorders, VCRs and DVD players. You connect an analog device using the usual red, white and yellow or S-Video connectors. A FireWire cable attaches the media converter to your Macintosh. It looks like a miniDV camcorder to your Macintosh. You can use TD Video to capture this video.
We recommend that you use a Media Converter to capture DVD video from a DVD player. You can use DVD ripper software to accomplish the same task, but the Media Converter method is simpler. We recommend the Thomson Grass Valley (formerly Canopus) ADVC110 media converter.
Capture With iMovie
iMovie can capture video from a wider array of camcorders. iMovie can automatically seperate clips based on the timing information contained within them. TD Video can then import those video clips captured by iMovie.
iMovie supports Digital8, miniDV, HDV, media converters, hard drive camcorders and flash memory camcorders. Digital8, miniDV, HDV and media converts are connected using FireWire. These 4 sources can be captured live at a game. Hard drive and flash memory camcorders typically communicate using a USB-2 connection and can not be captured during the game. Some flash memory camcorders record to SDHC memory cards that can be read by newer Macintosh laptops.
Click here to see Apple's list of camcorders supported by iMovie 11.
Import QuickTime Movie
TD Video can also import a large QuickTime movie that you can cut up into clips. You might use this capability to import a large video clip you downloaded from the internet.
Import Folder of Clips
You can also import a folder of clips so you don't have to cut them up. A folder of clips might come from another Macintosh computer, an opponent by trade or a USSportsVideo PC-less capture device (which is a FireStore device).
You can capture multiple camcorders live at a game using multiple Macintosh computers - and use Import Folder of Clips to move video clips from one computer into a TD Video game of another. We use this technique at our test school to intercut two camcorders' video after a game in 10 to 15 minutes.
