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Digital Origin Moto DV

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PDF format Specifications Chart - Moto DV
PDF format Specifications Chart - Moto DV Studio

Now you can create broadcast-quality videos and super-clean CD-ROM and web movies for just a fraction of what you used to pay for expensive analog-to-digital capture hardware. Digital Origin MotoDV enables you to quickly and easily transfer pristine digital video between your Mac and a DV camcorder or VTR equipped with a digital FireWire port (IEEE 1394 standard).

MotoDV transforms DV clips into QuickTime movies that can be imported into any QuickTime application. Remote camcorder controls make it easy to select clips for capture. The Digital Origin software DV codec eliminates the need for expensive hardware in your computer. MotoDV's DV Player streams movies over FireWire, using the camcorder or VTR to play full-screen, full-motion video. It all adds up to amazing video quality at an unbelievable price.

Carpe DVem (Seize the Frames)

A DV camcorder or VTR equipped with a digital FireWire port is a powerful tool for both traditional and new media authors, with the potential to expand the market for digital video and imaging in much the same way that Apple's LaserWriter® combined with Adobe's Postscript® to expand the market for digital publishing. Digital Origin is seizing this opportunity by creating a series of high-performance, yet low-cost, products that allow DV camcorder and VTR owners to fully exploit the digital video footage they record.

From PhotoDV to MotoDV, from NTSC to PAL

In April of 1997, Digital Origin led the market by being the first company to ship a FireWire product for Mac OS computers. The Digital Origin PhotoDV still image capture system includes the PhotoDV software (a Photoshop® plug-in), the Digital Origin FireWire card, and the digital interface cable. Digital Origin MotoDV further enabled a DV device by providing high-speed digital video transfer between a Mac and the camcorder or VTR. With the release of version 1.1, MotoDV is the first product in its class to provide support for both NTSC and PAL DV devices.

Advanced software, low-cost hardware

Radius MotoDV MotoDV uses the same low-cost Digital Origin FireWire card included with PhotoDV. It is designed to minimize the investment you need to make in hardware for your computer, leveraging the DV circuitry built into your camcorder or VTR.

MotoDV consists of three primary components.

MotoDV video capture

MotoDV includes a stand alone application that transfers the DV data stream from your camcorder to your Mac's hard disk. As clips are being captured, they are automatically converted to QuickTime movies, complete with a separate audio track. Clips may be captured either as real-time movies or as time-lapse movies. MotoDV's capture application also includes the same remote camcorder controls included with PhotoDV, making it easy to locate the clips you want to capture. The automatic naming scheme saves you time and helps you keep your clips organized.

Digital Origin SoftDV software codec

MotoDV includes Digital Origin SoftDV. This high-performance software codec allows you to render your video projects to the DV format. The benefit of a software codec-based system is that as computer processors increase in speed, rendering times will decrease.

The SoftDV codec also provides optimized playback of quarter-screen DV clips in software on your computer screen. The SoftDV options allow you to customize this playback performance to best match the speed of your computer. With the release of MotoDV version 1.1, playback is optimized for quarter-screen DV clips recorded in 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. As computer processors increase in speed, the ability of desktop machines to playback DV clips in software will also improve.

MotoDV video playback/recording

In addition to playing back your captured clips in software, MotoDV's DV Player allows you to export DV streams over FireWire, using the DV circuitry in your camcorder to play back the streams at full size, in full motion, recording them to DV cassette tapes if you so desire. The DV Player may be used either as a stand alone application or from within Adobe Premiere or Digital Origin Edit as an export plug-in.

"Consumer" and "professional" audio sample rates

MotoDV supports both consumer (unlocked) and professional (locked) audio sample rates allowing you to work with a variety of DV equipment. Supported unlocked sample rates include 32kHz, 44.1kHz, and 48kHz. The locked sample rates supported are 32kHz and 48kHz.

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