Re: Some basic movie capture questions...
From: PapaJohn (PapaJohn_at_CharterMi.net)
Date: 09/03/04
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 00:12:21 -0400
Hi George,
The Online > Tutorials and References page of my website has a number of
links to places that provide info to help you get started.
You plug your digital camcorder into your computer via firewire and up pops
a wizard that leads you through the capture process. The wizard is smart and
knows what you and your system are capable of doing and only presents those
choices to you.
Yes, it'll appear in your collection of clips in MM2 when it's transferred.
Digital Video comes in as DV-AVI, the same quality file on your computer as
the file on your camcorder tape.... unless you opt for a lower quality more
compressed file. A captured DV-AVI file is about 13 GB per hour of video.
You only save it as a project if you've added it to a project for editing
purposes.... and then saved the editing project. You don't send the project
to your relatives.... you use the project to define your movie. When you
want to send a video to someone, you render or save a movie from the project
file, and then send the movie. It'll be the same identical file that you
send to all.
>From Movie Maker you can only choose from two movie file formats.... DV-AVI
at the 13 GB per hour, which you wouldn't send to anyone as the size makes
it impractical..... and the compressed WMV format, which gives you many,
many choices of compression/quality to pick from. The size and quality you
pick depends on the capabilities of your viewers to play it, and your method
of distribution to them.... you might save it in various quality levels for
different viewers.
If you want to send your viewers a disc like a DVD or VCD or SVCD, you'll
need other software to create the files needed for the disc and burn it.....
if you send them a DVD, it'll be as good as the other software will make it.
Yes, the resolution can be very good.
-- PapaJohn Movie Maker 2: www.papajohn.org PhotoStory 2: www.photostory.papajohn.org . . "George" <air1@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:eoe1KKVkEHA.2764@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... > Am using WinXP-pro PC and got a Sony digital camcorder that does movies to > tape and MPEGs to memorystick. I'm about to buy the IEEE 1394 firewire, I > suppose it will come with some software but I think I'll start by using > Moive Maker 2. Ok, for some amateur quesions (but greatly appreciate > patience and answers)... > > How does the "transfer" or "record" process work to get the movie off the > Sony Digital tape (Hi8 I think it's called) and into the PC's hard drive? > (In the really old days, when you wanted to copy a VCR tape, you cabled a > player to a recorder, pressed "record" on the recorder, and ran over fast > to > press "play" on the player.) Surely digital is far more advanced without > human delays, so what's the sequence of steps to get the transfer started > and finished?... > > -Step 1. Connect Sony DV camcorder to PC with firewire > -Step 2. _______ > -Step 3. _______ > -Step 4. _______ > -Step 5. _______ > -etc. > > Ok, so once it's transferred, does it appear in MM2 and then do I "save" > it > as a project file onto the hard drive? What "format" or de facto standard > do I save it as so that it's either non-lossy or the least lossy possible, > i.e. so I could theoretically send it to 100 relatives and they would have > an identical copy. > > Is there a "rule" like for every 1 minute of digital movie, it takes > ____MB > in the _____ format? > > Lastly, let's say I do edits, add titles, transistions, fades and so > forth. > Is it true I re-save it in the same non-lossy format of _____, and also > save > it in a format of ____ so that people with players can watch it? What > kind > of players do they need...is Windows media player the most universal? Is > there a format (like mpeg) that about every player could surely read? Are > recipients able to pull this movie off and transfer it to a DVD to put in > their home Sony DVD player next to the TV? Is resolution any good? > > Thanks, > George > >
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