Capturing process is really very easy. You will need to connect your DV camera to your personal computer using FireWire (IEEE 1394) or USB cable, depending on what is supported by your computer and your camera. After that you can launch the AVS DV to DVD program.

It will be opened with the following window:

Here you can set the following parameters:

• Select miniDV camera - use this option to select the camera you need from the drop-down list if you have several of them connected to your personal computer.

• Select capture mode - use this option to set the mode, used to capture your video. Two modes are to select from - Capture the entire tape automatically and Capture parts of the tape manually. The first is used to copy the entire tape and the second should be used if you will need to select what to capture and what to skip.
• Select temporary directory - use this option to set the directory on your computer hard disk drive where the temporary files will be stored.
  Note: you will need quite a lot of free space - up to several dozens of Gigabytes - to store captured video. The temporary files will be deleted once the program is closed.

You can also use the information displayed to see if the capturing process goes smoothly:

Capturing information:

• Time (hours:minutes:seconds) - the length of the captured video.
• File size (Megabytes) - the size of the captured video on your computer hard disk drive.
• CPU Usage (percent) - the current processor load.

Summary information:

• Time (hours:minutes:seconds) - the total length of all the captured video files.
• Size (Megabytes) - the total size of all the captured video on your computer hard disk drive.
• Files count - the number of files that have been captured.

You will also be able to see the free space on the hard drive partition used to store temporary files.

Before you start capturing the video from the camera, you might need to navigate through it to find the exact place. Please use the Camera Controls Toolbar to do that.

To start capturing video, set the parameters above and press the Start Capture button. To stop the capturing process click the Stop Capture button.

After all the video is captured you can view the resulting files in Preview Video mode, search and delete scenes or go to Create DVD Menu mode.