menu:| Enosoft DV Processor Help |
To launch the Enosoft DV Processor manually, select the Enosoft DV Processor
from the
menu:
Alternatively, you can simply connect a DV device to an available IEEE-1394 port and wait for the Digital Video Device dialog box to appear:
Selecting the "Live DV Processing" option will launch the Enosoft DV Processor and configure the attached DV device to be the input for the processor.
If the Digital Video Device window does not appear, look in the computer's
notification area for 
and double-click on it.
The Enosoft DV Processor is a "dialog-based application" and, when it starts, you will see the following main window:
The features of the application are discussed in more detail in other sections of this documentation.
Conceptually, the Enosoft DV Processor consists of an input and an output connected by a processor. The input can be a DV device or a DV AVI file. The output can be a DV device, a DV AVI file or an on-screen window (video renderer).
Therefore, using the Enosoft DV Processor requires, at a minimum, selecting both an input and output.
NEW! Version 1.5 supports raw DV format files in addition to Type-1 and Type-2 DV AVI files.
NEW! Version 1.5 includes a number
of virtual DV devices that provide the new Virtual DV and Net
DV functionality.
Selecting an Input Source
To select an input device, left-click once on the drop-down list in the Input stage of the software's main window:
You will see a list of available DV devices connected to your computer and an option to select an existing DV AVI file.
For each device listed, you will see the name that Windows® assigns to the device when it is first connected to the computer. In this example, it is the second Sony DV camcorder. The names are the same as appear in My Computer, for example:
Once selected, you will see the Input stage change:
The live output of the DV device is displayed together with any information
contained within the DV stream such as the time, date, timecode, video format,
aspect ratio and audio format. These items are displayed in the Indicator
Display. Audio levels are displayed below the Indicator Display in
the Audio Meter Display.
In the above case, the DV device is a camcorder in camera mode without a tape
inserted, hence no timecode is present. Below the Audio Meter Display are transport
controls for the DV device. In the case of a camcorder in camera mode, the only
meaningful transport controls are Record and Record
Pause. When there is no tape in the camcorder or if the tape is write-protected,
then no transport controls are available at all.
To select an output device, left-click once on the drop-down list in the Output stage of the software's main window:
Select the Video Renderer option. The software's main window will change to the following:
Unlike for the Input stage, the Output stage does not change when selecting Video Renderer. This is because it would be redundant to display the video in the smaller window in the main window and in a large, separate video renderer window. The most important change to the main window is within the Processor section:
The 
and 
buttons have become enabled. Together with the 
button, these control the flow of DV data from the Input
to the Output.
Click the
button. A new window is created containing the video from the input source displayed
at full resolution. The title of the window is the same as the name of the Input
source.
If your computer has a soundcard, the audio portion of the DV signal will be decoded, too.
IMPORTANT! The Video Renderer Window has special features that are described here.Last Updated on Sunday, 8th March, 2009. Application Version 1.5.4.