How I archive miniDV tapes - a short guide

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WinDV

The software I used for this part is called WinDV. Here, I just had to specify a video source (my camcorder), a destination file and hit capture. WinDV automatically saves one video file in .avi format for each scene that is on the tape and names it with the date when it was shot. So if your camcorder's date settings were correct when you shot the video, you have a very easy way of sorting the files by date and time.

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MKVToolnix

The subtitles, which are inside the .srt file we created earlier, are automatically embedded into the new file by StaxRip. I wanted them to be selected as the default option when the player plays the video so that I didn't need to go into the settings and turn on subtitles for each video. This can be done with the software MKVToolNix. In its default state, MKVToolNix cannot apply the same settings to multiple video files at once, but thanks to a guy from GitHub, we have a workaround for that! Another plus of using MKVToolNix is that it fixes a fault in StaxRip's encoder that causes it not to display video information like the framerate in programs like VLC (when you press CTRL+J). After MKVToolNix has remuxed the video, the information is shown correctly again.

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HandBrake

2-4: I use StaxRip to encode the video because it includes the QTGMC deinterlacer, which is from my research a very good deinterlacer that produces less artifacts in the video than other deinterlacers like the one included in HandBrake.

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