Shuttle Control & Video Clip Size

[Gabe]

First off, this product rocks and has been a pleasure to use for the last couple weeks. Easy learning curve and great results. While putting four hours of video into the computer via my Sony HC-90 I recalled there being a shuttle control. When I read about it again I wasn't able to figure out how to enable that process. If I can get it to work that would save a lot of button pushing on the camcorder.

Second. This may be a dumb question but I still have to ask. I put together a clip in MPEG format, included some audio and slowmotion editing and finished with a couple seconds of 3D text from the bonus CD that came with VS9. The end result was less than two minutes and 76mb in size. I had to join www.streamload.com just so I could let others view the clip via the internet. If I would have captured in lets say .WAV format would that have made it smaller or is there something else I should consider.

Thanks in advance,

Darrel

[BrianCee]

The shuttle control is the round control under the bottom left corner of the preview screen when in capture mode, to activate it while capturing just hover your mouse cursor over it and press and hold the left mouse key - a bar will appear immediately below and attached to the shuttle 'knob' - while still holding down the left mouse key slide your mouse cursor down into this bar and slide the inverted arrow left or right depending whether you want to go backward or forward with the amount you move deciding how fast the camera goes - but keep that left key held down all the time.

If you wish to send video over the internet either as e-mail attachments or on web pages then capture and edit as normal but when you have finished editing go to "Share >> Create Video file" and choose to make a .wmv file which you will find is much smaller and more suitable for sending over the internet.

[Gabe]

The shuttle control is the round control under the bottom left corner of the preview screen when in capture mode, to activate it while capturing just hover your mouse cursor over it and press and hold the left mouse key - a bar will appear immediately below and attached to the shuttle 'knob' - while still holding down the left mouse key slide your mouse cursor down into this bar and slide the inverted arrow left or right depending whether you want to go backward or forward with the amount you move deciding how fast the camera goes - but keep that left key held down all the time.

If you wish to send video over the internet either as e-mail attachments or on web pages then at the "Share >> Create Video file" stage you should choose to make a .wmv file which you will find is much smaller and more suitable for sending over the internet.

Thanks, I'll try that immdediately.

[Gabe]

The shuttle control is the round control under the bottom left corner of the preview screen when in capture mode, to activate it while capturing just hover your mouse cursor over it and press and hold the left mouse key - a bar will appear immediately below and attached to the shuttle 'knob' - while still holding down the left mouse key slide your mouse cursor down into this bar and slide the inverted arrow left or right depending whether you want to go backward or forward with the amount you move deciding how fast the camera goes - but keep that left key held down all the time.

If you wish to send video over the internet either as e-mail attachments or on web pages then at the "Share >> Create Video file" stage you should choose to make a .wmv file which you will find is much smaller and more suitable for sending over the internet.

Thanks, I'll try that immdediately.

Ok, I just tried with no luck. While in the capture mode I did hover over the dial. A description of what the dial was popped up, then I held the left button on the mouse and nothing happened.

[BrianCee]

Hmm - works for me every time - did you have your camcorder connected and in 'VCR' or 'play' mode - it is possible I suppose that it does not work for every camcorder as it obviously needs to 'talk to' and control the electronics of your camcorder - perhaps someone with the same model camcorder as you can confirm what happens for them.

[Gabe]

Hmm - works for me every time - did you have your camcorder connected and in 'VCR' or 'play' mode - it is possible I suppose that it does not work for every camcorder as it obviously needs to 'talk to' and control the electronics of your camcorder - perhaps someone with the same model camcorder as you can confirm what happens for them.

Definately in the correct mode; I've been pushing buttons four hours. Agree, if there is anyone out there with a Sony DCR-HC90 could you please let me know if the shuttle control work for you when capturing. Maybe there's a driver that needs to be downloaded.

Thanks.

[Ken Berry]

I don't have your exact camera, though I do have a Sony digital video camera (DCR-TRV480E) connected right this moment to my computer via Firewire. I turn my camera on, open VS9, choose Capture > Capture Video, and wait till my camera name appears in the Source.

The only gloss which I can put on Brian's helpful explanation is that, with my camera at least, I have to first click on the play button on the Video Studio screen in order to get an image from the camera. Otherwise it remains dark and no amount of moving of the shuttle button will change that. But once I have pressed the play button and get the image, which appears to be in Pause mode (i.e. a still image on screen), I can move the shuttle control to the right to get it to play. But I have then to move the slider scale which appears below the shuttle control to the extreme right in order to get it to fast forward, or to the extreme left to get it to fast rewind... But it does appear to work on my camera, in other words.