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Shortly after Sony launched its first DV camera in 1995, turning the world of digital video shooting and editing upside-down in the process, Alexei Gerulaitis, a former Soviet computer scientist who went AWOL in California, and Bertel Schmitt, a German advertising exec living in NYC, started the DV-L mailing list, accompanied by DVCENTRAL.ORG, this website. Both quickly became a hub for digital video enthusiasts and industry players alike. In a backroom of the NAB show, holding a wire-wrapped Adaptec FireWire card in his hand, Bertel made the wide-eyed pronouncement that �one day, we�ll be able to edit video on our laptops.� Soon, digital video became mainstream, and Bertel�s prediction has been old hat for many years by now. This website is no longer being maintained, but it is kept around to keep history alive.
Alexei goes simply by Alex now, and is commanding a small army of servers at Disney-ABC. House, wife, and dog have long ceased being Bertel's. He now lives in Tokyo, not far from the Sony HQ, where, three decades ago, all of this started.
And now, more than 20 years after all this started, Bertel Schmitt (left) and Nick Schlott (right) re-united in Tokyo. Bertel retired with five monitors. Nick still works on Adobe Premiere, like in the bad old days.
Find us on Google or Facebook if you want to talk about the old times.
This site is devoted to DV (and its related formats - DVCAM, DVCPRO, etc.) and FireWire (also known as IEEE-1394). DV is a digital video format, supported by a consortium of over 50 companies. FireWire� is a serial data transfer protocol and interconnection system, used (among other things) to transmit DV. FireWire was originally developed by Apple Computer. In 1995, FireWire was standardized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers as IEEE 1394-1995. 1394 Trade Association maintains extensive amount of information on IEEE-1394.
This site is maintained by Bertel Schmitt and Alexei Gerulaitis.
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DV Motion Artifacts
Robert Hutchings of KTCA (Twin Cities Public Television, St Paul, Minnesota), writes:
"...DVCAM format seemed to be a little cleaner and more precise than the DV format, but the images produced by the two cameras were very close."
Read the article.
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How to [subscribe](thelist.html#How to subscribe), [unsubscribe](thelist.html#How to unsubcscribe), [how to get the digest](thelist.html#How to get the digest) and more.
It's the digital interconnection for DV and many more things to come. Some background. Where Firewire comes from. Where Firewire is going. Links galore.
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