Using Kino to capture digital video with a firewire cable

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A firewire cable enables a video camera to send digital video files to a PC. Some people find that using a firewire cable is quicker, easier and allows better quality capture then USB allows.

Once contected by firewire, Kino should be able to control the capture process entirely from you pc.

Please note.

This method will not work for analogue video cameras.

DV files are very large, 30 minutes worth of video needs about 13 GB of hard drive space.

This article assumes that you have already installed Kino by using either CNR or Synaptic.

It is usually better to use mains then battery power when capturing digital video from your camera.

If capture does not work after trying this method it may be that the Kino software does not have the proper driver for your video camera.

Some people just use Kino to capture their digital video and then use a different program to edit it (more details on such programs will follow when CNR is fully up and working).

In order to use firewire digital video (DV) cameras with Freespire V2.0, you must have read and write permission to /dev/raw1394, which is not enabled by default.

You need to change the system configuration which governs the device file permission, even if you reboot:

To do this.

Open a console window

type
$ sudo edit /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules

Press Ctrl+F and search for 'raw1394'

Change 'GROUP="disk"' to GROUP="video".

Click Save and close.

If everything is connected, open Kino and click on the 'capture' button. This should bring up the capture menu. Rewind your tape to the beginning, give the imported file a name and then click on capture.

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