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Hi Mark;

DCTV is a very handy and useful tool but it won't digitize video in real
time. You'd need a high end video capture board to do what you want --
something like the PAR or the flyer.

To digitize video your player (in your case your camcorder) must have a
rock solid pause function -- that is something that gives you a rock solid
image without any jitter or flutter. DCTV needs a still image.

I have, in the past, digitized a short video sequence with DCTV by stepping
through the video segment frame by frame with my Panasonic AG 1830 deck and
an edit controller which almost -- but not quite --gives you frame accurate
editing.

It's difficult to digitize anything more than a second or two doing it this
way because the deck will release after 3 minutes. It takes 10 or 15
seconds to digitise each frame, about as long to save it. And maybe another
15 seconds or so to step to the next frame. Do the arithmetic. It's easy to
see that 3 minutes doesn't give you much time to play.

There's an outfit out of England (Rombo ???) which makes a video digitizer.
Whether or not it can grab a sequence, I have no idea. But it might be
worth exploring.

Hopes this helps.

Doug


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