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downloading camcorder to computer
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11/25/05 03:17 PM
11/25/05 03:17 PM
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goombah
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Ok, I've tried for the past 3 days to make it work but have given up. I bought a Sony camcorder last week. I tried installing the software in order to transfer the video from my camcorder to my harddrive. Every time I do it, I get a different error. The error seems to be with the software itself. I think the software is incomplete. I tried updating online with no success. There have to be other software programs for this, not just the junk that came with my camera, right? I'm trying to download from my camera with a USB port. I'll be upgrading to firewire soon, but I don't think that will solve the problem I'm having now. Any advice? Afanseh, Geoff you both helped in the past and seem to have good knowledge about this stuff. I'm frustrated b/c I'm usually pretty good w/computers but this software has reduced me to a screaming mess.
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Re: downloading camcorder to computer
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11/26/05 03:11 AM
11/26/05 03:11 AM
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afsaneh77
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The only camcorder I've worked with has been Panasonic. There must be two options on your camcorder, one to for shooting DV-AVI movies, another to take pictures, which is called "Card" on the one I use. When I put the option on "Card" I can take either pictures or shoot an Mpeg-4 movie, which is downloadable via USB and has a low resolution; otherwise I've not been able to download a DV-AVI movie via USB, which has a lot better resolution. Mind you, I do all this on my brother's computer, mine doesn't have a firewire port . If you upgrade to firewire, any movie editing software should have no problem for downloading the DV-AVI movie from camcorder. I couldn't do it and I think the only way to capture a DV-AVI movie from camcorder is via firewire connection. I'm a screaming mess myself, where on the world all my offline download goes? I've bought a Visionplus satellite card for getting satellite TV and offline downloads and if I find out how to set this up I'll die happily!
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Re: downloading camcorder to computer
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11/26/05 05:35 AM
11/26/05 05:35 AM
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scarfacelondon
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If Nero works download the key from shareware programs like limewire or imesh. from download.com
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Re: downloading camcorder to computer
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11/28/05 04:41 PM
11/28/05 04:41 PM
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goombah
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Originally posted by afsaneh77: Goombah,
I don't know why it wouldn't let you download the movie into hard drive, but is your hard drive by any chance connected via a USB port? That could tie up the connection between your camcorder and hard dive. In addition you'd have to remove any device connected to your USBs even if they don't function at the time. They still keep some of bandwidth to themselves.
As I mentioned before you'll not be able to download Mpeg-2, which is suitable for burning on DVD as DV-AVI. The maximum resolution you'll get via USB would be Mpeg-1, which would be good enough to be burned as a VCD, on a normal CD. Slowly but surely, I'm making progress. I finally was able to download to my hard drive. But Afanseh, thanks for the heads-up about not being able to burn to DVD with a USB. So am I then to assume that if I switch to firewire, I can burn to DVD? I did a dump of my hard drive onto a dvd and the quality was not good. Visually it was fine, but the sound was not in sync with the original. That's a problem with USB transfer I presume. And to answer your original question, my hard drive is not connected via USB - it's intennal. But are you saying that no other USB ports should be connected while I'm doing the camcorder download to the pc? Thanks for all of your help - I really appreciate it.
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Re: downloading camcorder to computer
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11/29/05 02:33 AM
11/29/05 02:33 AM
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afsaneh77
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You're welcome. Yes, you should disconnect anything connected to your USB ports when capturing the movie via USB. If you upgrade to firewire you'll be able to download a format suitable for burning on DVD. Also be advised, the raw format of the captured movie via firewire could take up to 20GB per hour at its best quality, so consider using a balk space in your hard drive. Then you can convert the formats to a lower capacity file. You'll get the best results if you reduce the resolution when converting the formats rather than the time of capturing the movie.
"Fire cannot kill a dragon." -Daenerys Targaryen, Game of Thrones
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