Editing DV (video format) (section)

=== File-based media ===
With proliferation of [[tapeless camcorder]] video recording, DV video can be recorded on [[optical disc]]s, solid state [[flash memory]] cards and [[hard disk drives]] and used as [[computer file]]s. In particular:
* Sony [[XDCAM]] family of cameras can record DV onto either [[Professional Disc]] or [[SxS]] memory cards.
* Panasonic DVCPRO&nbsp;HD and AVC-Intra camcorders can record DV (as well as DVCPRO) onto [[P2 (storage media)|P2]] cards.
* Some Panasonic [[AVCHD]] camcorders (AG-HMC80, AG-AC130, AG-AC160) record DV video onto [[Secure Digital]] memory cards.
* Most DV and [[HDV]] camcorders can feed live DV stream over [[IEEE 1394 interface]] to an external file-based recorder.

Video is stored either as native DIF bitstream or wrapped into an audio/video [[Container format (digital)|container]] such as [[Audio Video Interleave|AVI]], [[QuickTime File Format|QuickTime]] or [[Material Exchange Format|MXF]].

* ''DV-DIF'' is the raw form of DV video. The files usually have extensions *.dv or *.dif.
* ''[[Audio Video Interleave#DV AVI|DV-AVI]]'' is [[Microsoft]]'s implementation of DV video file, which is wrapped into an AVI container. Two variants of wrapping are available: with Type 1 the multiplexed audio and video is saved into the video section of a single AVI file, with Type 2 video and audio are saved as separate streams in an AVI file (one video stream and one to four audio streams). This container is used primarily on Windows-based computers, though Sony offers two tapeless recorders, the HDD-based HVR-DR60<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-HVRDR60 |title=HVR-DR60 HDV Hard Disk Recorder }}</ref> and the CompactFlash-based HVR-MRC1K,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-HVRMRC1K |title=HVR-MRC1K Memory Recording Unit }}</ref> for use with DV/HDV camcorders that can record in DV-AVI format either making a file-based copy of the tape or bypassing tape recording altogether. Panasonic AVCHD camcorders use Type 2 DV-AVI for recording DV video onto Secure Digital memory card.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/panasonic/business/provideo/op_manuals/AG-HMC80_OI_Advanced.pdf |title=Panasonic AG-HMC80 operating instructions }}</ref>
* ''[[QuickTime]]-DV'' is DV video wrapped into QuickTime container. This container is used primarily on Apple computers.
* ''MXF-DV'' wraps DV video into MXF container, which is presently used on P2-based camcorders (Panasonic) and on XDCAM/XDCAM EX camcorders (Sony).