Exsate DV Capture Live 1.0.0.300 is a Digital Video Recorder product from exsate.com, get 4 Stars SoftSea Rating, DV capture and encoding to AVI and WMV in real time.
Exsate DV Capture Live enables you to capture and convert DV video from your camcorder via a IEEE-1394 Firewire connection. While the software is capturing the video, it automatically converts it to AVI or WMV format in real-time and saves it to your hard drive.
You can optionally imprint the DV time stamp into the captured video and choose to have it appear once a day, once an hour or with every scene. Furthermore, you can choose to capture to a single or multiple files, append to existing projects, and operate all playback functions of your DV camcorder.
Exsate DV Capture Live does not offer any editing functionalities, but if you just want to capture and convert your tapes to digital format, this software offers all the functionality you`ll need.

Exsate DV Capture Live is a software for capturing DV video from IEEE-1394 Firewire and recompressing to other formats in realtime.

Key features
Display DV date/time stamp - Exsate DV Capture Live detects recorded DV date and time stamp and imprints it on a video frame. The software can automatically display the DV date time stamp:

Once a day
Once an hour
Every scene
Always

Automatically operates your camcorder - You have to do some operations to control your camcorder each time before capture: rewind a tape, search for the beginning of a recoding, etc. Exsate DV Capture Live frees you from these. There are following automatic capturing modes available in Exsate DV Capture Live:

capture from the beginning to the current position of a tape
capture from the current tape position to the end of a record
capture a whole tape from the beginning to the end
capture any given timecode interval

Realtime recompression to AVI or ASF formats - Exsate DV Capture Live can recompress captured video to an AVI file with any DirectShow or VfW compressor installed on your PC including DivX (AVI) or to the Window Media ASF file (WMV) on the fly.

Scenes detection, capture to multiple files - Exsate DV Capture Live detects scenes and writes them to a single file or to the multiple files, every scene into a separate file.

In additional - Exsate DV Capture Live can perform some tasks to make the capture process more comfortable for you:

wizard like user interface
show a capture progress
automatically rewind a tape after the capture
automatically shutdown a PC after the capture The license of this video & dvd software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Video & DVD software.