[Grant Dawson]

Hi Scott
Sorry its been a while since ive imported DV video but ill give it my best.

1) for DV video its just basic, you either get DV-NTSC (north america) or DV-PAL (Australia, and a few others). From you logging screen you can either log clips individually or just log the whole tape. Pros and Cons being, entering clips means you don’t get the garbage you don’t need taking up precious hard drive space, but you will prob have to sit there and watch the whole tape to set your in and out points. And if you log the whole tape it will take up more space but you then be cutting from the once clip constantly, which isn’t a big deal.
Personally id log the clips individually, but having said that I would edit all the garbage out and turn that 1hr digi tape into a 10min clip.

2) As far as exporting, to be honest DV is pretty bad compared to todays standards. If you want it to be the best then go as Uncompressed AVI but really I would prob go a MP4 with codec H.264 it will take up way way less space and the quality will be pretty much the same. But what I would recommend is try both and see for your self.

3) You can upscale a tad but unfortunately you will also upscale all the imperfections as well and the quality can look pretty bad.

4) I would also recommend a Quicktime MOV or MP4 for this. Almost everything reads MP4 file format nowday’s if not there is always faithfull Windows AVI

Hope this helps

[Grant Dawson]

On the other videos I have I am following other bikes (like on the example but much closer) and the plates show up pretty clearly, specially because the camera I use seems to have a bit of a zoom, even when none is used. So if u sit about 2 or 3 meters back it appears that your more like a meter.
But I shall try the tracking option, thanks for your help