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07-01-2006, 12:25 AM
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Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
I just bought my first digital camcorder(sony DCR-TRV280) It hooks up with a usb and downloads the video into some funky sony program that only allows me to save it to my hard drive in a massive .IND file format
 , or burn a vcd. What are my options? The first person to say "get a better camera" gets slapped. 
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07-01-2006, 12:29 AM
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Rollin', Rollin', and Rollin'
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
I would buy a different camera if i was you....
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07-01-2006, 02:01 AM
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
Ok. I got movie maker running now. I set the capture to the highest quality setting and saved it as a large file and it is all pixelated. Is my computer too slow to capture the video? Or is this camera a POS?
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07-03-2006, 05:22 PM
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3V0lution
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
its your comp.
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07-03-2006, 05:27 PM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
you need a better video card...... I have the same problem but the quality is good enough to watch
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07-03-2006, 10:04 PM
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Pre-SleepyC Tuna
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
Geez guys! Come on, the TRV-280 is a great camera. Cheap, you can throw it in your field box and thrash it, and it has pretty darn good image quality. I have one, and use it as my secondary camera.
Keith, take that sony disk and use it as a coaster. You need to use movie maker. Also, MAKE SURE you are using a FIREWIRE cable, not a USB cable. There are 3 places you can plug in a cable on the front right of the camera. You want the hole directly below the yellow one.. it's marked A/V. Once you connect it, you're ready to go. Go into movie maker, file, capture video. Capture at DV quality. After you edit it, file, save movie file. Keep web vids around 4 minutes long. When you save the movie file, a 50megabyte file has pretty good quality.
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07-03-2006, 10:54 PM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
I'm running 128meg video card. You nailed it on the head Max. I have it hooked up usb and my comp is running usb 1.0 which is probably like trying to drain a pool with a straw. I ditched the sony crapware. I'm going to look into installing a firewire port. Are they usually on the video card or can I get pci firewire card? I'm glad it's not the camera as I don't want to shell out for better model as I'm saving for a Synergy N9. I like this one, fits perfect in my transmitter case, and is dumbtarded easy to use.
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07-03-2006, 11:36 PM
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Father of the Scale Furum
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
The firewire port can be bought on a PCMIA or whatever card right???
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07-03-2006, 11:55 PM
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
Yeah. I jsut ordered one from newegg for $14 shipped and it comes with a cable. The reviews were very good and xp will with recognize it so it should be plug and play.
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07-07-2006, 04:08 PM
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
Update:
Installed the firewire card and it runs like a champ! |
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07-07-2006, 05:53 PM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
so where's the video?
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07-07-2006, 06:01 PM
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Pimpalicious
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
What about a hardware video capture device and video editing package? Anyone suggest good ones they use? My friend's cam has a USB port also. I already know about the firewire thing. I need a decent video editing package to make some movies with music and such.
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07-07-2006, 08:03 PM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
I've been messing with windoz movie maker. It's pretty easy to capture, edit and render.
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07-07-2006, 08:08 PM
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Pimpalicious
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Re: Help! I'm a video newb. Seriously, I'm clueless.
Sweet!! I take it you like AFI? When I first saw them was with The Dropkick Murphys and Lars from Rancid. They were alright...reminded me of a younger Misfits.
Gona capture some video tonight hoepfully. |
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