Mini-DV camcorder video to Vista

[marnix_moed]

Hey,

on my cousins wedding I recorded some video on my mini-DV camcorder. As a
present I want to burn it on DVD. For that I need to have the video
transferred to my Vista computer first.

Does anyone know if any of the software Vista has can do this?
I know windows movie maker and windows DVD maker can help me create the DVD.
I already have the cable.
All I need is to find a program that can get the video from my camcorder
with firewire to my computer.

 

[meerkat]

Hey,

on my cousins wedding I recorded some video on my mini-DV camcorder.
As a
present I want to burn it on DVD. For that I need to have the video
transferred to my Vista computer first.

Does anyone know if any of the software Vista has can do this?
I know windows movie maker and windows DVD maker can help me create
the DVD.
I already have the cable.
All I need is to find a program that can get the video from my
camcorder
with firewire to my computer.

Go read this article, it`s for Win7, which is almost the
same as Vista.
http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/video/articles/25846.aspx

bw..

 

[Robert Wolfe]

Hey,

on my cousins wedding I recorded some video on my mini-DV camcorder. As a
present I want to burn it on DVD. For that I need to have the video
transferred to my Vista computer first.

Does anyone know if any of the software Vista has can do this?
I know windows movie maker and windows DVD maker can help me create the DVD.
I already have the cable.
All I need is to find a program that can get the video from my camcorder
with firewire to my computer.

If this camera is like mine (I can record to the internal hard drive in
the camcorder or to an SD card), if you plus the camera into the
computer, Windows _SHOULD_ see the camera as a removable drive (as it
does mine).

 

[Dave]

From Movie Maker (Live beta) help...

" * If you have digital photos on a digital camera, you'll need to import
the photos to your computer before you can add them to Movie Maker beta. You
can import photos from your digital camera to your computer by using Photo
Gallery.
* If you have video on a videotape in a digital video (DV) camera,
you'll need to import the video from the tape onto your computer before you
can use that video in Movie Maker beta. You can import video from a
videotape in a DV camera to your computer by using Photo Gallery.
* You can quickly add photos and videos to Movie Maker beta by dragging
them from Windows Explorer to Movie Maker beta."

 

[marnix_moed]

Meerkat: thank you kindly for the link. I find the description a bit
confusing with all the versions, but the first steps seems to get Video
acquire wizard for the computer to recognize the camcorder.

Robert wolfe: I only wish my camcorder was as sophisiticated as yours. No my
camcorder records on mini-dv (miniature size digital video tapes). So
although video is recorder digitally, getting it over to the computer is not
as easy as with yours.

Dave: thanks for the photo tips. But I already knew how to add photo's to my
computer and to a windows movie maker project. I also know how to ad titles,
credits, video and music.
About getting video from the camcorder to the computer through the photo
gallery, I did not knew. How can you do this? Did you also need the Video
acquire wizard?

 

[John]

Hey,
I know windows movie maker and windows DVD maker can help me create the
DVD.

Why don't you use movie maker?

I already have the cable.
All I need is to find a program that can get the video from my camcorder
with firewire to my computer.

I've used movie maker on my WinXP Home to transfer 1 hour of miniDV tape
content to my notebook. The result is roughly 11GB of (high quality movie)
data on my hard disk.

 

[marnix_moed]

It worked! WMM is now importing the video. thx!

 

[John]

Great. FYI, you can also use the software that comes with your camcorder.