Video Editing Question

[hank]

I just got a Canon Optura 20 digital video camera as a gift. It can make digital videos on miniDV tapes as well as still photos on a stick. It can even make short mpegs on the stick which I can then transfer to my computer.

What I want to do is to transfer the miniDV recordings to the mpeg or similar format. The way I currently understand it is that I need some software to do this and a connection b/w the camera and computer.

Is that right.

Here is a rundown of the computers I own:

I have a laptop and a desktop. I obviously have USB on both, but the laptop has firewire. Both have 512 RAM and both hard drives are 40 gig or better. The desktop is a PIII 1.0 gig processor and the desktop is a P4 2.6 gig processor. I have Windows XP Professional on both.

I'll entertain any suggestions offered b/c I really have no idea about this stuff.

Thanks in advance.

hank

[Seraphim]

You need to buy a firewire card for your pc, unless you can use your USB.

[seventy6er]

Connect your camera via Firewire with one of the PC's.

Download the programm DVIO HERE (http://www.carr-engineering.com/DVIO.exe). It's free and only 32kb - believe me - it does the job.

Use DVIO to capture your video to avi-files on your harddrive. Then you only need a program to edit/cut your file; after you're finished with editing, use TMPGEnc to convert the avi-file to VCD or SVCD-format.

[farmgirl]

Connect your camera via Firewire with one of the PC's.

Download the programm DVIO HERE (http://www.carr-engineering.com/DVIO.exe). It's free and only 32kb - believe me - it does the job.

Use DVIO to capture your video to avi-files on your harddrive. Then you only need a program to edit/cut your file; after you're finished with editing, use TMPGEnc to convert the avi-file to VCD or SVCD-format.


hey sixer.... off topic... but I haven't seen you for awhile... isn't it about time for the baby, or am I too early????

[Kenshin]

Hank.. this may help you with the techie details

http://www.dvcentral.org/howedit.html

..and yes firewire is the way to go. In your case just get a firewire card. Most of them have bundled Video editing software.

[seventy6er]

hey sixer.... off topic... but I haven't seen you for awhile... isn't it about time for the baby, or am I too early????

Hehe, you're a lil bit too early. Still 3 more months to go (1st week of June).

But here's a new video - just for you ;)

TIM (www.seventy6er.de/bilder/tim1602.mpg)

[Durandal]

Hank

Firewire is faster, but USB will work just fine as well.

I'd love to help you out, but I am on a Mac now. Downloading and editing video form a camera (whether USB or Firewire) suddenly became the easiest thing in the world...

Anyone else here use a Mac?

[hank]

much appreciated - seventy6er - I may shoot you a pm when I try this out. Thanks for the help to everybody.

hank

[seventy6er]

much appreciated - seventy6er - I may shoot you a pm when I try this out.

Sure - whenever yo want. Or you can try to catch me at MSN:

webmaster@seventy6er.de

[farmgirl]

hey sixer.... off topic... but I haven't seen you for awhile... isn't it about time for the baby, or am I too early????

Hehe, you're a lil bit too early. Still 3 more months to go (1st week of June).

But here's a new video - just for you ;)

TIM (www.seventy6er.de/bilder/tim1602.mpg)

good luck! I guess we can look forward to the arrival of Hank's baby first.... maybe he can demonstrate some of his new skills when she arrives!
Thanks for the vid! :)

My daughter's birthday is June 4th.... maybe your baby will be born on her bday. :)

[farmgirl]

Hank

Firewire is faster, but USB will work just fine as well.

I'd love to help you out, but I am on a Mac now. Downloading and editing video form a camera (whether USB or Firewire) suddenly became the easiest thing in the world...

Anyone else here use a Mac?

I have a PC at home and a Mac at school. Now that I'm getting used to the Mac, I find it easier in a lot of ways. :)

[Seraphim]

Ya everyone just repeats what I say...

[Haiw]

Ya everyone just repeats what I say...

What?

[Apogee]

I've got a dell here that I use to edit my video (Canon ZR70MC) with Adobe Premiere. It works well, but I'm thinking about getting a power book in the near future because iMovie and iTunes are really great.

[farmgirl]

I've got a dell here that I use to edit my video (Canon ZR70MC) with Adobe Premiere. It works well, but I'm thinking about getting a power book in the near future because iMovie and iTunes are really great.

I love iMovie. I did one for the kids with pictures of them and their dad. They love it.

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

Anyone else here use a Mac?
Yep two week old eMac, iMac before that, maybe get a G5 dual before the end of the year can't live without them.

[California Joe]

Anyone else here use a Mac?
Yep two week old eMac, iMac before that, maybe get a G5 dual before the end of the year can't live without them.

I used to have a mac. Loved it. Best damn platform for graphics there is.

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

Ever use SGI boxes in your line of work CJ.

[California Joe]

Ever use SGI boxes in your line of work CJ.

We have huge SGI mainframes....I'm playing with Lightwave 3D right now.

[hank]

Yes you can look forward to lots of lics from the newest addition to hankdom. I have just created a site and I have movies and pictures of hank, mrs. hank, and both dogs. Also lots of pictures of the stuuf we have accumulated so far. Plus, you know I can't resist a joke or two at the wife's expense. If you want to check it out pm me.

Thanks for all the video editing help.

Scuba - you like premiere. UT has great prices on Adobe stuff and I am going to check it out Monday.

Thanks again to everybody.

hank

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

I'm playing with Lightwave 3D right now.
I have got a pal who used to do illustration work for ITT and it was all done by airbrush he never touched a computer until last year, I showed him some stuff on the net including Lightwave and he was dumfounded he just could not believe how computers had taken over illustration. He gave up illustration to do his own thing in art and he gets by doing it, he does not miss the deadlines and hassle. :)

[Durandal]

Ever use SGI boxes in your line of work CJ.

We used old indogs back when I did package design. They were the only things that could do the seprations for packages as complex as say...a Coke or Pepsi carton.

That was then. Now it is all done on Dual G4s.

I am sure they are looking at G5s, but I had a mid life career change about two years ago. No more graphic design...now I farm!

I use iMovie, iDVD, and iTunes...I think I might check out that Garage Band software they just released for Panther...then I can make some good tunes to go with the movies rahter than use my mp3 collection.

Oh, I use a 17" iMac. My roommate and I have set up an Airport wireless network in the house with boosters fo the backyard.

I, belive it or not, shoot all my video on a Canon Elf. I can only do 30 seconds at max resolution, but I make a lot of edits, so you never would know (except for the audio quality).

Fun fun fun...

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

Big career change Durandal design to farming, farming in the family or was it something you were keen to try.

[Trigger]

Mac user here too. I love it. Hopefully my boss will upgrade it soon. :D

[Durandal]

Big career change Durandal design to farming, farming in the family or was it something you were keen to try.

The farm was in the family, but not farming. I was never keen on it till I lost my job. at first it was a temp deal till I got another design/illustration gig. About three of four months into it we decided it was going to be a permanent thing...LOTs of fun.

We board horses, grow corn and/or soybean, harvest about 8 bales of alf-alfa and hay, and cut lumber. We also deal witha gravel company, selling aggrate rights to property that is unfarmable, and are looking at other forms of diversification...stocked fishing lake, camp ground, paint ball, or possibly even a gun range. This is all the "next generation" of owners, not my dad. So, there is a fair amount of multitasking going on...business plan, cost estimates, zoning changes, local community meetings, fighting (and winning) against eminent doomain, the list goes on and ON...

Never a dull day. I can be chopping wood one moment, runnign an electrical oline the next, and chasing a teresspasser out with a shotgun the next...

What fun!

[farmgirl]

Big career change Durandal design to farming, farming in the family or was it something you were keen to try.

The farm was in the family, but not farming. I was never keen on it till I lost my job. at first it was a temp deal till I got another design/illustration gig. About three of four months into it we decided it was going to be a permanent thing...LOTs of fun.

We board horses, grow corn and/or soybean, harvest about 8 bales of alf-alfa and hay, and cut lumber. We also deal witha gravel company, selling aggrate rights to property that is unfarmable, and are looking at other forms of diversification...stocked fishing lake, camp ground, paint ball, or possibly even a gun range. This is all the "next generation" of owners, not my dad. So, there is a fair amount of multitasking going on...business plan, cost estimates, zoning changes, local community meetings, fighting (and winning) against eminent doomain, the list goes on and ON...

Never a dull day. I can be chopping wood one moment, runnign an electrical oline the next, and chasing a teresspasser out with a shotgun the next...

What fun!



Sounds like all you are missing is a woman that knows how to drive a tractor and throw bales.... not to mention conjugate verbs. ;)

[Durandal]

Sounds like all you are missing is a woman that knows how to drive a tractor and throw bales.... not to mention conjugate verbs. ;)

Yeah, sounds great to me as well. I can build a phat house half way up the hill for a great view of the valley. Not a bad school district (though the are getting a bit greedy tax-wise). 20 minutes away from a major city. Can walk around buck nekkid on the deck in the summer time...

Of course finding one of those women, that is single i may add, is a difficult thing indeed.

Know any farmgirl?

;)

[farmgirl]

Sounds like all you are missing is a woman that knows how to drive a tractor and throw bales.... not to mention conjugate verbs. ;)

Yeah, sounds great to me as well. I can build a phat house half way up the hill for a great view of the valley. Not a bad school district (though the are getting a bit greedy tax-wise). 20 minutes away from a major city. Can walk around buck nekkid on the deck in the summer time...

Of course finding one of those women, that is single i may add, is a difficult thing indeed.

Know any farmgirl?

;)


I might know just the girl for you..... ;)

[Durandal]

Warn her though...

I snore, I almost never turn on the TV unless to watch DVDs, and I try to read 1000 pages worth of books a week.

:D

[farmgirl]

Warn her though...

I snore, I almost never turn on the TV unless to watch DVDs, and I try to read 1000 pages worth of books a week.

:D

I don't think she'll mind... she's a sound sleeper.... her TV has been broken for nearly 3 weeks, and she hasn't bothered to get it repaired, and she too, is a voracious reader. Sounds like a match made in heaven.... ;)

[Durandal]

Well, here is the kcicker

She must be willing to eventually relocate.


OR (if not willing)


Enjoy a passionate weekend of crazy *** followed by three or four months of seperation.

p-)

[farmgirl]

Well, here is the kcicker

She must be willing to eventually relocate.


OR (if not willing)


Enjoy a passionate weekend of crazy *** followed by three or four months of seperation.

p-)

if the *** was good enough.... relocation wouldn't be an issue.... p-)

[SOG]

Anyone else here use a Mac?
Yep two week old eMac, iMac before that, maybe get a G5 dual before the end of the year can't live without them.

I used to have a mac. Loved it. Best damn platform for graphics there is.

aye, mac since 94. cousin said, you draw, you mac. worked for me ever since.

[Durandal]

if the *** was good enough.... relocation wouldn't be an issue.... p-)

I think I could manage that end of the bargain...

[Ian H]

I love Macs, I just have a PC at the moment for compatibility purposes. I want to get a Mac at some point though.

[Durandal]

I love Macs, I just have a PC at the moment for compatibility purposes. I want to get a Mac at some point though.

Come to the good side of the Force Ian...

You'll love it!

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

Go on Ian H make the change and don't worry about compatibility I do a bit of HACCP documentation for a seafood company, they run PC's and I have got Microsoft Office for Mac which takes care of most compatibility issues I am not so sure about Visio though but hell its overated anyways.
You can hook a Mac into a PC in minutes and swap files and out of the box a Mac will read Word documents no problem they have got a lot of useful features such as saving any documents as a .pdf and all the old rumours of not enough software is available for Mac's is just collywobble there is plenty plus lots of open source stuff. :D

[Ian H]

I will join you, in fact we have a really old (pre iMac) G3 at home, just not yet. I'm an improverished student who bought a computer for uni in August see, another isn't on the cards for some time yet.