Recording with DV Camcorder

[Jonwall]

From what ive heard a dv camcorder makes one of the best webcams out there because it can send all the data to the pc without compressing anything and be very high quality. What im looking for now is a program to actually make use of this. Win7 detected my dv cam and downloaded a driver for it from windows update, and it works as a webcam, but using camtasia it compresses the video and makes it look fairly choppy. Any suggestions for getting the highest quality possible?

[JD]

I think it would be best to record the video to tape first, then import it into your PC. Sounds like you don't need a live stream.

[Jonwall]

Originally Posted by jdrom17

I think it would be best to record the video to tape first, then import it into your PC. Sounds like you don't need a live stream.

When you record to a dv disc or to a sd card on it then it has to compress the video as it records lowering the quality, i want a way to get every frame uncompressed.

On twitlive.tv im pretty sure they use several dv camcorders to produce some pretty amazing stream quality, but they also have a tricaster that may do some of the work