[Colin Browell]

You might like to take a look at https://www.dvmp.co.uk

There’s also an HDV version out soon.

[Colin Browell]

.dv files are just the raw DV data without the AVI wrapper. You could use DVMP Pro which runs in Windows to convert the .dv files into DV AVI files.

[Colin Browell]

DVMP Pro will display dropped frames. When you open/play an AVI file it displays the metadata for each frame, including the timecode – for dropped frames the media time shows up in yellow.

You can also jump forward or backward between dropped frames so you can see exactly where they are.

The File->Properties box also give the total dropped frames (if any) in the file.

https://www.dvmp.co.uk

There’s a demo version that you can try out.

[Colin Browell]

Thanks Johnny. I’ve taken a look at that and it seems to be lacking some embedded metadata that I was expecting to see.

Do you know of any other direct-from-camera m2t sample files?

Incidentally, what are the “scene” files that are mentioned in that thread?

[Colin Browell]

Thanks Johnny, but it’s specifically HDV1 (720p) .m2t files captured direct from the camera that I’m looking for.

[Colin Browell]

You can see the DV user bits and other metadata in DVMP Pro, but it runs on the PC only.

[Colin Browell]

I think that reverse field order is an instruction as to how that clip should be re-rendered IF it is necessary for it to be re-rendered (due to an effect or transition).

If there’s no need to re-render it, then the clip will just be copied as-is to output, so the field order will not actually change.

DV is lower field-first, so if you are able to recreate the upper field clip as lower-field first this is probably the best solution. Otherwise you can take the upper-field-first clip and shift all the lines vertically by a single scan line – that will change it to lower-field first but lose the top (or bottom) scan line.

[Colin Browell]

DVMP Pro can use a variety of scene detection and splitting criteria:

– date and time discontinuity
– timecode discontinuity
– user bits change
– tape index marker occurrance

It will split an existing DV AVI file using any of the above triggers, or you can just play the AVI file and jump instantly between the scene changes. If you’ve got several files to process it’s also a batch processor.

It will also display the date, time, timecode, user bits, shutter speed, white balance settings etc…

There is a demo version that you can download and try.

https://www.dvmp.co.uk

[Colin Browell]

DVMP Basic will display the date and time, timecode, iris, shutter speed and other camera settings, but it’s only available on the PC.

https://www.dvmp.co.uk/

The Pro version also allows you to burn-in any of this information into the frames.

[Colin Browell]

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