I don't know about the camera being user-unfriendly for video editing, but I
do know that Movie Maker is MPEG-UNfriendly. If you're lucky, and you have
the right combination of CODECs installed, Movie Maker will be able to
import the MPEG-2 video and you can edit it. Otherwise, you'll need to
first convert it to AVI (or WMV), or use a more MPEG-friendly editor.
Of course you won't know until you try it. So put a DVD in the drive, fire
up WMM2, and try to import the video from your disc. Go for it!
You should also check out
www.papajohn.org for some useful tips if you
should run into problems.
-Bob
uriah7 said:
Recently purchased the new Sony DCR-DVD300 video camera that records to 3"
DVD discs using MPEG2 format. This will cause me to import MPEG2 video from
my computer's DVD player. I am new to video editing and have not used WMM2
yet. Wondering if anyone else has had success with this camera using WWM2
since this is not a firewire "tape to hard-drive" transfer. Latest reviews
have knocked this camera for being user-UNfriendly for video editing.
