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DVD Handycams……. oh boy oh boy
The unfortuante part of being in this bizness is family members asking you for favors. A cousin has inquired about putting together a piece of his wedding for his wife for thier anniversary. From what i gathered on the phone it was all shot on a Sony DVD Handycam. He is not very “electronically” savy. So the details are slim. I would like to try and help him out but I have ZERO experience in these DVD cams. So here are my questions for the cow….
1. Do these cameras have firewire connections…… (going to the sony site next to try and find this one on my own)
2. Do i have to use third party software like Cinimatize to extractg the video?
3. Any workflow issues would be a great help.
I know this isn’t a pressing issue and there is now big deadline that would cause me to loose the client but if you have any experience in this it would be greatly appretiated.
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I’m sure the camera has a firewire connection to interface with Sony’s consumer editing software on PC’s so you should be able to simply do a “Capture Now” with a “Non-Controllable Device” to capture the footage. Just capture it in DV and then edit it like a normal DV project.
If not, it would definitely have regular A/V connections to hook up to a regular TV so again, you can just run that through a Firewire device and capture as DV.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Walter thanks for the insight. from what i could dig up in the slew of sony pdf’s there is no firewire only usb….. go figure anyway if i decide to do it i will probably dub it through the dsr 11 to minidv tapes then log and batch those…..
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15″ g4 1.25
2.0 gb ram
superdrive
lacie 320 bigdisk
fcp hd
lots of mahjong -
Place the disc in your computer and use MPEG Steamclip (free download ) to extract the clip to DV.
Now you want to know where you can get MPEG Streamclip?
here it is: https://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html
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Thanks…
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15″ g4 1.25
2.0 gb ram
superdrive
lacie 320 bigdisk
fcp hd
lots of mahjong -
[Walter Biscardi] “I’m sure the camera has a firewire connection to interface with Sony’s consumer editing software on PC’s so you should be able to simply do a “Capture Now” with a “Non-Controllable Device” to capture the footage. Just capture it in DV and then edit it like a normal DV project.”
Well, not so much.
The digital files recorded by these camcorders, of course, are NOT “DV” at all, but are “mpeg 2” on the DVD.
(But you knew that, you just “miss-spoke”.)That’s what makes these little gems so “non-practical” for editing.
Yes, you can “rip” the files from the DVD and convert them to DV for editing.
Here are the “top 3” COW-favorite apps to do this:
https://www.dvdxdv.com/
https://www.miraizon.com/products/products.html
https://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.htmlThen you must “re-compress” back down to mpeg 2 if you want to go back to another DVD again.
(Did I mention “non-practical”?)
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Matte thanks for all the links…. I have cinimatize2 and went to mess around with the streamclip….. it was askign me to install the mpeg-2 player for qt6…… obviously i have qt 7 installed for FCP 5….i dare not install anything for qt6.
just press apple-z
15″ g4 1.25
2.0 gb ram
superdrive
lacie 320 bigdisk
fcp hd
lots of mahjong
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