Re: Success - capturing from a Sony DVD201E camcorder

From: PapaJohn \(MVP\) (PapaJohn_at_CharterMI.net)
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:25:32 -0500

Thanks for the info Noelle,

I think I'll add your notes one of the pages of my website... just have to
figure out which one. 

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"Noelle" <noelle@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message 
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> Thank you for the replies PapaJohn and Graham.
>
> I have finally succeeded in my endeavour to burn a normal DVD, from the 
> footage shot with the Sony DCR-DVD 201E. which uses a DVD mini disk.  And 
> am extremely happy with the results.
>
> They compare more than favourably with the DVDs from my
> last camera a Sony TRV740E Hi8.
>
> Pixela Imagemaker itself which comes bundled with the camera, offers only 
> basic editing, and I needed to import the files into WMM2 to edit them, 
> and here I ran into problems.
>
> Tried several methods ie saving the mpg files to DVD-AVI in Imagemaker 
> itself (previous email), but eventually decided the resulting files in 
> some cases where there was lots of movement, were not up to the quality I 
> was expecting.
>
> Finally, in WMM2 I went to Tools/Options/Compatability and through a 
> process of elimination, I disabled the filters, eventually leaving only 
> the XL Decompress, AVI_PASS, only two of the Neros: Nero DVD Decoder and 
> Nero Video Encoder but disabled the Nero Digital Audio Encoder (as this 
> appeared to mute the sound), and left in the Pixela AC-3 Encoder and 
> Pixela MPEG2 Video Decoder.
>
> Bingo, success at last!
>
> Using Imagemaker, I imported the footage from the
> finalised disk in the Sony into the Imagemaker Capture folder.
> I then opened (successfully) imported these scenes into WMM2, edited them, 
> added transitions etc., and saved them to my Hard Drive as DVD-AVI files. 
> Using Nero Express S2 burned them to DVD.
>
> To make sure things go smoothly prior to a session with
> WMM2 I always defrag the Hard Drive beforehand.
>
> Oh, and another thing worth mentioning, the Take Picture from Preview
> option in WMM2 Tools and import into Collections.  This works like a 
> charm. If you select the best shots they come out crisp and clear. Used 
> some to overlay titles on within the movie.
>
> Regards
> Noelle
>
>
>
>
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