DV Camcorder to WAV with River Past Audio Capture, DV Camcorder2WAV recording

What is WAV?

The format for storing sound in files developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM. Support for WAV files was built into Windows 95 making it the de facto standard for sound on PCs. WAV sound files end with a.wav extension and can be played by nearly all Windows applications that support sound.

Launch River Past Audio Capture

Once River Past Audio Capture is installed properly, launch Audio Capture.

Set Input Settings

Click on the toggle to the left of "Record from". The panel expands. Select "Microsoft DV Camera and VCR". If it is not a choice in the combo box, check your 1394 card installation and cable connection.

Select output format

Use the setting panel on the bottom of the window to control the output format. Click on the toggle to the left of the "Format" label to expand the panel. Select "WAV - Waveform" as the "Audio Type".

You can change the compressor, and depending on the compressor, you can change the sample rate, channel (stereo or mono), bits/sample, and bitrate.

Set Output File

Click on the toggle to the left of "Record to". The panel expands.

Click on the browse button to bring up the File Save dialog. enter the file name.

Record

Click the "Record" button to start recording.