Just for reference, this is the command-line I used: dvgrab -autosplit -timestamp -size 0 -rewind Florida. I have no clue why they failed, as the tapes seemed to contain all the required info (actual, correct timecode).
MAC USING FIREWIRE FOR MOVIE CAPTURE PRO
Completely non-interactive, which is a big pro in my eyes because it eliminates human error (to make sure settings are the same all the time), and it finally could capture the tapes the other tools couldn’t capture. To make a long story short, DVgrab seems to be the perfect tool for me. Apart from installing it, there was nothing to do, no device nodes to create, no permissions to be modified, etc. I resumed my search for a suitable tool, and then came across DVgrab, which runs under Linux (Ubuntu in my case). Still, there were some tapes that not even WinDV could capture…
🙂 Turned out that the tool still works under Windows 10, which I found pretty amazing, and that it could capture some tapes I couldn’t capture using iMovie. I quickly came across a tool called WinDV which I had actually used 10 years ago already. I would write a large number of very small files to the Mac, instead of relatively few large ones that I expected according to the source material. For some tapes, iMovie would simply report “No data from device”, even though the tapes played well on the camcorder. Well, that was indeed pretty straight-forward, apart from that I had strange issues with some tapes. It still has a Firewire (IEEE 1394) port, and I quickly found out on the Internet that I should be able to grab video from the camera using iMovie. My first try was to do it on my (somewhat elderly) MacBook Pro. I have about 40 tapes left which I wanted to capture for “posterity”, but it turned out that it was not as easy as I thought…
Until some years ago I was using a Canon MiniDV camcorder to record home videos, but since then I had switched to one using SD cards.
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