[FFmpeg-user] Question on AVFoundation and importing from a DV-VCR

[Colin Bitterfield]

To Whom It May Concern:

I have been trying to get a direct import from a Sony DSR-45 DV Deck. Using OS X Final Cut Pro hot annoying with various issues.

Does anyone have suggestions or a method for doing this better? I have 500-600 more DV tapes to ingest.

Using this command brings in a 12GB DVVIDEO files

ffmpeg -hwaccel videotoolbox -hide_banner -benchmark_all -stats -loglevel error -f avfoundation -capture_raw_data true -pix_fmt 0rgb -i DV-VCR -t 600 -q 0  -c:v copy -c:a copy 'Test7.dv' -y

The problem are:

1. The file is huge (Is there a way to auto split this with a scene detect filter? I have not tried this yet.

2 The videos I am working with consist of:
	a. Intro video track no audio
	b. 60 second intro (apparently with different time codes)
	c. A 45 minute to 60 minute video

What I get is either the intro video is too slow or the actual video I want is too fast. It seems to depend on whether I start the tape before the intro text, or during a video. I am guessing different time codes.

I tried a number of test cases results varied but in all cases one or the other video was bad.

My next round of testing will be with " -capture_raw_data false"


Test Cases:

ffmpeg -hide_banner -benchmark_all -stats -loglevel error -f avfoundation -capture_raw_data true -pix_fmt 0rgb  -i DV-VCR -t 140 -copyts -copytb 0 -vsync passthrough -c:v copy -c:a copy  'Test 1.dv' 
ffmpeg -hide_banner -benchmark_all -stats -loglevel error -f avfoundation -capture_raw_data true -pix_fmt 0rgb -i DV-VCR -t 140 -c:v copy -c:a copy ‘Test 3.dv' -y		


I am running this on a MacBook Pro (10.15 Catalina) 

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